Bits & Pieces :: Early May

* Chloe loves almost every book by Bill Peet.  She grabs a stack and sits down like this most days to flip through every single one.

* Our house has been lovingly decorated by Chloe and her bundles of flowers.  She snips and arranges and places these beautiful vases all over the house.  Right now the vases are overflowing with lilacs and branches from the flowering plum in the backyard.  On the honey jar below, she dismantled one single rockcress flower from our neighbor's yard (she wouldn't miss just one, right?) into 5 little hearts and taped them on there :-)

* Chloe's second little tooth on the bottom is finally loose!  Her grown up tooth is growing up behind it swelling up her gums pretty badly, but she's not in pain.  Well, except when she tries to eat her daily carrot. 



* Out in Edinboro, Todd has wrapped up his part of this enormous project.  Just waiting on carpet :-)

* The kids have been enjoying playing with neighbor friends most nights after dinner.  They taught them how to play "Panther and Mouse" (which they learned from Grace and Anna originally) so there is a bunch of growling and squeaking for a hour or two and then it's bedtime.



* We joined Bryce and Ajay at the playground one day and all was great until Evan overworked his arms and his shoulders were really sore.  After that he just moped around until we left.  I guess when you are 9 1/2 the monkey bars are really the only reason to go the playground and without those... well, blah.

* The Cubee collections still get almost daily playtime.  The other day they made houses for them on the couch complete with guards, pets, weapons, beds and treasures.  Naturally. 

* Evan recently made a goblin Cubee of his own design -- inspired by his new most favorite ever book, The Hobbit.  It's really ugly and makes him laugh.



* The backyard with all its swings and our fabulous dirt patch is really the only place to be on a beautiful day.    If only mom would stop spying on us with the camera....