CATCHING UP

Some highlights from our week.

Claire’s favorite thing to do is to set up a party. She particularly loves to use this little blue table. She gets all her stuffed kitties and me arranged around the table and then she starts distributing the cake and cookies.

There’s lots of artwork happening around here lately. So much that I can barely keep it from taking over all the flat surfaces in the house. Here are a couple of the masterpieces that Claire has made at preschool:

Bea often sits down to draw something when she seems to be feeling stressed. One day she sat down and copied everything on the West wall of our TV room. We’ve started putting up the kid’s artwork and holiday decorations on that wall behind the TV so she made drawings of drawings. She even copied Trinitron on the TV. And you can see the sound coming out of the TV.

Here’s a playground scene that Bea drew.

When your wife is a stay at home Mom you can text her and say why don’t we celebrate, Composer, Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th Birthday with a mini party tonight. And then your wife makes some quick decorations and buys cupcakes. Then after dinner the kids get excited while you watch the Chicago Symphonie Orchestra’s live broadcast of Verdi’s requiem. Usually I’m the one that comes up with excuses to have cake and to make a weeknight a little less ho hum. But this time it was Brian – we couldn’t see the performance live but we did have fun. And the girls did get into the orchestra and the the instruments and they pretended to conduct and they tried not to be too noisy when Daddy was trying to hear the music.

And Bea had to draw Mr. Verdi:

The other thing I did this week – lots of felt cutting and pinning and sewing – for Halloween. We are soooooo excited to have a real American Halloween this year.