praying mantis categories: playing outside

by Russell on June 28, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Found this little guy in Indea’s hair while we were eating lunch by the pool today.

He’s about a centimeter long - that’s a paper napkin and an upside-down paper plate he’s on.

baby praying mantis

Indea in Chinatown categories: indea

by Russell on June 25, 2009 at 10:50 am

Indea and I visited Chinatown today for some fun and shopping.

live food

She was especially impressed with the live turtles, eels, crabs and fish for sale. They EAT them? she wanted to know. Hmm.. she added.

Somehow the squid snacks didn’t go over quite as well as the idea of eating a turtle.

not sure about this

We usually do shopping in Chinatown for our annual Christmas eve dinner, but I haven’t taken the kids there in a while so everything was new. Lots of fun. Indea was especially taken with the fans and dresses and porcelain.

Chinatown

Emma the Scientist categories: emmaquotable

by lucinda on June 21, 2009 at 7:15 pm

We had a new babysitter this weekend, another Rachel (not that she held a candle to the original Rachel, who visited this weekend, but more on that later). She was clearly flummoxed by Emma’s bedtime story request: “Here, can you please read me facts about hippopotamuses from this encyclopedia?” As she pulled out a notebook she added, “I’ll just take some notes.”

sandbox categories: playing outsideprojects

by Russell on June 11, 2009 at 8:54 am

We built this sandbox this week, took 3 days. Yesterday we spent the entire day, from about 9 am till 6:30 pm outside under the tree working on it.

Indea got her first toolbox and we practiced hammering and sawing, while Emma got a toolbox upgrade. She spent all afternoon building her own something. At first it was a bench, but then it transformed into something else.

sandbox

The giant 8×8s are very heavy white oak leftovers from our landscape construction a few years ago. 750 pounds of sand.

Once we finally added all the sand the girls proceeded to bury themselves, pour sand on each other, in their hair, in their pants, in their shirts. Making up for all that lost sandbox time, I guess.

I’m going to be… categories: emmaindeaquotable

by Russell on June 11, 2009 at 4:22 am

As we pulled into the driveway yesterday with 500 pounds of sand for the sandbox we built (pictures to come) :

Indea: Daddy, I’m going to be a dancer.

Emma: and I’m going to be a scientist of animals and plants and rock climbing will help me climb up to find things!

Indea: But Daddy, we’ll still come and visit you sometimes

“Mommy, how much does it cost to buy a horse?” categories: indea

by lucinda on June 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm

I’ve been waiting since Indea was 3 for this question to come in some form. She continued I’d really like to have a horse. I could feed it every morning, and brush it.”

Who did I build this treehouse for? categories: playing outside

by Russell on June 3, 2009 at 10:45 am

me in the treehouse

Yes, I do have wifi up there.

indea categories: indeaplaying outside

by Russell on June 3, 2009 at 9:41 am

Some recent Indea shots

Playing with kenai:

Indea with kenai

Checking out the black beans that sprouted nearly over night:

checking out the black beans

Indea is a great lover of black beans. Rice and black beans (with nothing added) is one of her favorite dishes.

She was sad when we had to thin the plants.

Enjoying the water categories: emmaplaying outside

by Russell on May 26, 2009 at 3:18 am

catching waterstriders

Emma is searching for interesting things in the stream

painting by Emma categories: artemma

by Russell on May 19, 2009 at 10:26 am

Spontaneous painting by Emma

painting by emma

though, now that I think about it, most of the kids artwork is spontaneous.

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