Colorama

This week Katharine created a bunch of coloring books for the kids in the family. Most of them are already filled in.

Here are scans of two of my favorites:

"Colorama - For Boys"

"Colorama - Underwear"

Scanned

We took a break to have some fun with the scanner when I was scanning all of those "Colorama" pages in.

Katharine

Lukas's hand

Kassidy at the party

Kaylee's Birthday Party

Katharine was invited to Kaylee's birthday party in March (beginning of March). Yes, that's how long the pictures were stored on my phone. So today I finally got around to updating my phone and downloading the pictures. Kassidy went with us, too and got all dolled up. Not sure I will manage to put the video up on the blog as I am a bit more technically challenged than Erik, but I will try my best.

Eagle Watch

 I heard about a live eagle-cam on NPR tonight, which is observing a nest where 2 out of 3 eggs just hatched. In the course of ten minutes we saw the mother eagle get up, feed her eaglets fish, sit back down, and then saw the daddy eagle swoop in to drop off some food.

Pretty cool!

http://www.raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/

The eagle also makes a great drawing subject. 

Lukas put the mother eagle and her babies in the nest on the bottom right corner, and the daddy eagle is flying in with a dead goose in its beak. A worried looking goose and squirrel look on from the left...

"Eagle Family" by Lukas

I'm not sure what Keira was drawing, but there is probably an eagle in there somewhere!

"Eagle" by Keira

I can't wait to see what Katharine draws (she was out at dance class tonight).

Bragging Rights

Is it right to bragg? No, but I will do it anyways. I had a question for Katharine's choir teacher regarding a hymn that Katharine's choir will sing on Palm Sunday. My girl wanted to learn more of the hymn than what they need to know, so I asked her teacher what hymn it was and this is the email that Ms. Sonda sent back:

It's hymn 280, "All Glory Laud and Honor.'" Because there are 5 verses ( singing the tune on"la"), we have been focusing on just the refrain:

All glory laud and honor to thee Redeemer, King.

To whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring.

You could probably look up the verses from an online hymnal source. I know Katharine could probably learn them all even though because of the length, we've never tried to get the kids to remember it. Pat's never had the grown ups try, either. It's the same hymn that the adult choir will process to in the middle hour - you could learn together!

btw, we were singing through the song at the end of class while kids were getting picked up. In a small group, her timbre really rang out. It quite caught me off guard. Lovely and I thought even a bit mature for her age. Then I remembered - there some strong genetics there, too! :-)

Sonda

Icees

Some treat: after an afternoon of running errands we ended up feasting on bad food: pizza and icees.












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Flower Child

Kassidy in the front yard, sniffing (and eating) flowers.

Iria took a lot of other great shots, but Kassidy has been congested as of late and the Photoshop booger-removal routine becomes tiring:

Cap

Lennon is sporting a cap today, and is getting a lot of compliments. He reminds me of one of those paper boys from the old B&W movies.

Young Scribe

I loved watching the quiet and concentrated effort that Lukas was putting into his writing exercise yesterday. I can't read it, but I'm sure it was an amazing story!

Searching For Shells

The last thing I thought we would be doing is shell hunting this morning, but there we were...

Colored Bubbles

Everyone got hosed down first and then took a nice bath to make sure they got a good scrub down. The parent's point of view: Another good reason to capture memories and make first hand learning experiences, yes, I too had a lot of fun. Despite the mess.








I asked Keira if she was the orange monster which sparked a growl and monster hands from her.


Kassidy liked the entertainment.








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