Fun Times with the Hooks

Today when I came home from work, Lily had made me a card; she loves to make cards for people by putting on stickers, drawing hearts or rainbows and writing names on them. She pulled it off the refrigerator and handed it to me so I could admire it. After telling her how lovely it was, and how much I appreciated the card, I handed it back to her because she wanted to put it back on the fridge. It didn't stay when she put it up so I thought the magnet must have fallen on the floor. Lily however said "I'll just put more glue on it so it will stick." She was quiet upset when I told her we couldn't glue things to the fridge!

I typically use this blog to post about things the kids are up to, but I had to tell you that Ryan and I went to see David Copperfield at The Fox tonight. Granny gave us these tickets for Christmas; what a great present! He puts on a great show! We have seen him twice before, but we always love to see his show. You know, you absolutely know, there is a logical explanation for his illusions, but most of them, I don't have the first clue how he does it. I mean really, when you have several people in a big circle and in the middle of the circle on the floor, how do you make a car appear above them in just a matter of seconds? Also, how do you play with a tiny piece of tissue paper for a few minutes, then set it on fire and a long-stem red rose appear? How did he do it??? We left the show feeling so incomplete, but it was so much fun to watch and wonder!

Other fun times around our home lately...

The girls sweetly hanging out together. Aren't they cute?

Lily was so excited about her new hat, and she thought it looked perfect with her Snow White dress. When I asked if the hat was her princess tiara, she replied "Mommy, I'm not a real princess. I'm just tendin'. I'm just Lily tendin' to be a princess."
Mia loves corn. After giving her several helping of it, I finally just handed her the cooled off pot and let her go to town. This made her very happy!
Ryan has been working so hard for about a week and a half on tearing down our big back deck which is no longer structurally sound. Mia was fascinated by this process. She would stand at the window for long periods of time just watching him. She kept repeating "Da da!" and pointing out the window. Lily also enjoyed watching, and they both loved it when we would open the window to hand Ryan some water and chat for a minute.

Lily loves her new paints. She has always used Color Wonder or Paint With Water sets in the past, but I recently bought her a Thomas the Train real paint set that she begged for. She has had so much fun with it. She has probably made 6 or 7 pictures a day since getting this last weekend. It's so fun to see her creativity come out!