Ben took us all out to Foresthill for a picnic at the park a couple weeks ago. What a gorgeous place! Massive pine trees, verdant grass everywhere, brand-new play equipment and best of all, almost completely silent and empty! The girls got to practice their monkey bar skills and enjoyed helping Libi go down the slides. Liberty, as usual figured if her sisters can do it, so can she, and scaled a pretty intimidating ladder without any help at all. Ben wouldn't let me get too close. He says I'd make anybody anxious, so I let him hover. As you can tell by the pictures, he's good at making the kids feel like they're doing it themselves. Trust me, he was still close enough to catch her.
We also got to go to a Colombus Day parade that my parents put on. Monica walked with Eve, Sadie, RJ, Makayla and my Mom in the parade. The girls' Halloween Costumes weren't ready yet, so they didn't get to dress up, but RJ wore the cowboy outfit I made him for his birthday this year. I think I get more fun out of him wearing it than he does.
And here are more goodies from my neglected garden. We're getting a bumper crop of pomegranates from our tree/bush this year. They are quite tastey and so pretty!
And lastly, I just have to share the story that Sadie wrote yesterday. For school we made leaf people out of construction paper and crayola'd leaves and I asked the kids to name their people and tell a story about him or her. This is Sadie's -My Leaf Person's name is Cheeseblock. Cheeseblock is a little girl with a little house made of wood and cheese. She eats candy at her house. She has wood blocks and cheese blocks to play with and to eat. She keeps them in the fridge. She lives with one brother and her mom, and a baby is in her mom's tummy. The baby's name is Eddy and it's a girl baby. And the next baby is going to be a boy.
Surely I'm raising the next great American novelist!
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