The Finer Points of Warner Days: January 2013

Ramsey's first book: The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss, 1/1/13. She read it by herself as we were entering a store. We have been working on reading lessons, but Ramsey has been reluctant to read books herself. She picked this book up in the car, and started reading it herself as she was walking. It was the cutest.

Part of Ramsey's reading lesson includes writing. I found this--"this is my homework." It is, Ramsey, it is.

We visited the Natural History Museum, it was a blast, but very exhausting.

We checked out a short film in this "movie theatre" in the museum.

Two days later, the kids made their own movie theatre.

It had a shocking number of pillows and patrons (stuffed animals).

Here's Bella with Beck's "stuffies." This is totally cute, until Bella decided to start fighting (complete with growling and biting) the "stuffies" and Beck started crying.

Beck's self portrait. At his parent-teacher conference, Mrs. Reeve pointed out that Beck hasn't chosen which hand he writes with, and in fact he colors with his right hand on the right side of the paper, and his left hand on the left side of the paper--aka, he doesn't "cross the meridian."

Beck at music class--the kids are pretending to be airplanes.

Ramsey helping with dishes. Wow, this lasted all of a few weeks before I lost the energy to include her in this. Tough time of the day!

Ramsey had a January midterm "informal" recital. She wore her pink leotard with a fluffy tutu. She was excited to wear makeup and even though she has lovely long hair, that bun was tricky! Ramsey was seriously the best in her class, and she wasn't scared. I wasn't really crazy about the quality of the recital--several raunchy songs and skeezy outfits. We'll see how the end of the year recital goes! Ramsey was thrilled.

Ramsey's art--she told me, "this is the world, and this is the love of the world."

I love it when they hold hands. Just runnin through the hood.

This is how Ramsey likes to organize her money.

We went antiquing and we found old Beatrix Potter books.

And an old toy phone. Sad to say my kids rarely see a real phone.

Bath time fun with bubbles in his eyes.

Buckled in tight--brother and sister forever. Interestingly, Blue Doggie (Ramsey's lovey) is a boy, and Baby Panda (Beck's lovey) is a girl. Lately, Ramsey has started insisting Blue Doggie is a girl, although not consistently. Blue Doggie was originally a gift for Beck that Aunt Patty sent right before Beck was born, but Ramsey was 18 months old and ripe for a lovey.

We had a little snow dusting, and got all geared up.

They really wanted to catch snowflakes on their tongues.

Snow angels.

The snow was too fluffy to make any snowballs.

We went on a walk. This was at the height of my placenta previa, and it was all I could do to make it up that hill. But it was worth it.

Our house in the snow :)

This is the kind of foolishness I deal with at bedtime!!!

Trains reigned supreme in January.

Matt's birthday celebration--we had 5 different treats. Homemade chocolate chip cookies and chocolate pie, and macaroons, creme brulee, and dulce de leche from Matt's favorite-Silva's Patisserie.