As I mentioned in Miriam's birthday post, we spent all of yesterday afternoon working on Halloween costumes. Miriam's dressing up as Queen Lucy of Narnia. Benjamin's dressing up as a penguin.
Miriam was trying to explain to him about waddling but he just wasn't getting it so she stole his hat so she could demonstrate this skill. He still didn't get it. I told her that toddling is similar enough to waddling that Benjamin would make a fine penguin.
She spent the afternoon wandering around Narnia (aka our front yard) blowing her nose.
Here's our friend Rose-Flower (named by Miriam):
And here's Rachel and one of our neighbours making a suit of armour for him to wear on Halloween. We were working on Rachel's costume on the driveway—cutting cardboard and making a real mess—when our neighbour came over and said he had plenty of boxes at his house if we needed more cardboard. He brought some empty boxes out (they recently moved in) and since we didn't actually need them decided to make a costume for himself. The kids had a great time working on everybody's costumes together!
Here's my sweet girl Miriam again:
And my sweet boy Benjamin (who took a tumble and landed face-first on the driveway—which is why he has a little road rash on his chin):
When we'd finished with our costumes for the day, the girls played hide-and-seek with the neighbour twins and another neighbour across the street while I worked on digging out some carrots from the front garden. The soil out here is pretty much clay so although the carrots grew nicely (the best ones were about four inches long) they were so difficult to get out of the ground. I had to use a trowel to dig them out because if I pulled their tops they'd pop right off, leaving the root stuck firmly in the ground.
While I was going through the carrots I found a couple of these caterpillars:
They almost look like monarch caterpillars but I'm pretty sure they're black swallowtail caterpillars and since I know they like carrot tops, we went ahead and put them both in our butterfly habitat (we let our mantis go since finding food for it was getting a little time consuming) hoping that they'll eat their fill, make their chrysalises, spend the winter tucked away nice and snug, and emerge for us in the spring.
We'll see.
And speaking of caterpillars, Rachel got to go on a field trip today to the Carolina Theater to watch a puppet show of both The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. She had a blast!
And speaking of speaking of, Miriam has picked up on this phrase and uses it all the time, sometimes well and sometimes poorly. All day long she's been inventing situations to apply this newfound phrase. For example, she came up to me soon after finishing breakfast and randomly said, "Milk comes from cows," then she paused dramatically before tacking on,"Oh, and speaking of milk, may I please have a glass of milk?"
Miriam was trying to explain to him about waddling but he just wasn't getting it so she stole his hat so she could demonstrate this skill. He still didn't get it. I told her that toddling is similar enough to waddling that Benjamin would make a fine penguin.
She spent most of the day dressed as Lucy, once I got her out of her pyjamas, that is. Both Miriam and Benjamin woke up with the sniffles yesterday and had awful runny noses the entire day so she declared that she was going to spend the day in her jammies. Eventually she got dressed so that we could play outside and, oddly enough, both kids woke up feeling great this morning—no runny noses at all!
Miriam found her cold timely since Lucy always carries a handkerchief.
She spent the afternoon wandering around Narnia (aka our front yard) blowing her nose.
Here's our friend Rose-Flower (named by Miriam):
And here's Rachel and one of our neighbours making a suit of armour for him to wear on Halloween. We were working on Rachel's costume on the driveway—cutting cardboard and making a real mess—when our neighbour came over and said he had plenty of boxes at his house if we needed more cardboard. He brought some empty boxes out (they recently moved in) and since we didn't actually need them decided to make a costume for himself. The kids had a great time working on everybody's costumes together!
Here's my sweet girl Miriam again:
And my sweet boy Benjamin (who took a tumble and landed face-first on the driveway—which is why he has a little road rash on his chin):
When we'd finished with our costumes for the day, the girls played hide-and-seek with the neighbour twins and another neighbour across the street while I worked on digging out some carrots from the front garden. The soil out here is pretty much clay so although the carrots grew nicely (the best ones were about four inches long) they were so difficult to get out of the ground. I had to use a trowel to dig them out because if I pulled their tops they'd pop right off, leaving the root stuck firmly in the ground.
While I was going through the carrots I found a couple of these caterpillars:
They almost look like monarch caterpillars but I'm pretty sure they're black swallowtail caterpillars and since I know they like carrot tops, we went ahead and put them both in our butterfly habitat (we let our mantis go since finding food for it was getting a little time consuming) hoping that they'll eat their fill, make their chrysalises, spend the winter tucked away nice and snug, and emerge for us in the spring.
We'll see.
And speaking of caterpillars, Rachel got to go on a field trip today to the Carolina Theater to watch a puppet show of both The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. She had a blast!
And speaking of speaking of, Miriam has picked up on this phrase and uses it all the time, sometimes well and sometimes poorly. All day long she's been inventing situations to apply this newfound phrase. For example, she came up to me soon after finishing breakfast and randomly said, "Milk comes from cows," then she paused dramatically before tacking on,"Oh, and speaking of milk, may I please have a glass of milk?"
Haha! You might want to add some diaper insides to your garden area--did you watch Grant's video about that?
ReplyDeleteWow, at around the same age, Magdalena started using "speaking of" all the time, too! Mostly incorrectly. Sometimes she would just say "speaking of" all by itself. Silly four-year-olds.
ReplyDeleteFour year olds are awesome! Sometimes Peach says things and we just break out into fits of laughter...of course it seems like by six they start to quench some of that at school. Oh well. Benjamin's hat and costume look adorable. Can't wait to see it all on him!
ReplyDeleteI love that you created your costumes in the driveway and even had a neighbor drop by to make his own. The kids look cute as always!
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