September 29th:
Soccer Saturdays! I can't believe we're actually at this point of life where our kids are playing games on Saturday. Today Hazel had two games and it was the first time Kevin and Vicki haven't been with us, since they are in Disneyland! I love that they make the effort to come down from the valley and sit with us on their camping chairs for an hour or so in the hot sun...that's love. And Hazel outdid herself today. In the first game, she scored two goals...for the other team.
At the beginning of the second games, she mentioned her two goals and we corrected her, thinking she understood that those didn't really count. We soon realized that she passionately believed that a goal is a goal, so we decided to drop it and encourage the right kind of goal during the second game. And she went ahead and scored three more goals...for the right team! Five goals total! We were so excited. Unfortunately, due to bad behavior the night before, she lost her reward of ice cream after the game. But David decided that because she tried so hard to score those goals, that they could make homemade ice cream together for Sunday (it has to freeze overnight). She was happy with that compromise. So were her sisters.
October 1st:
For activity time today with Eloise, we painted Halloween pictures I drew with black paint and did "hand stamps" where she painted her tiny hand and stamped it on the paper. She loves to paint. Hazel played at Allie's after school and we had reading time together when she came home. We had a great family night outside about respecting differences.
Soccer Saturdays! I can't believe we're actually at this point of life where our kids are playing games on Saturday. Today Hazel had two games and it was the first time Kevin and Vicki haven't been with us, since they are in Disneyland! I love that they make the effort to come down from the valley and sit with us on their camping chairs for an hour or so in the hot sun...that's love. And Hazel outdid herself today. In the first game, she scored two goals...for the other team.
At the beginning of the second games, she mentioned her two goals and we corrected her, thinking she understood that those didn't really count. We soon realized that she passionately believed that a goal is a goal, so we decided to drop it and encourage the right kind of goal during the second game. And she went ahead and scored three more goals...for the right team! Five goals total! We were so excited. Unfortunately, due to bad behavior the night before, she lost her reward of ice cream after the game. But David decided that because she tried so hard to score those goals, that they could make homemade ice cream together for Sunday (it has to freeze overnight). She was happy with that compromise. So were her sisters.
For activity time today with Eloise, we painted Halloween pictures I drew with black paint and did "hand stamps" where she painted her tiny hand and stamped it on the paper. She loves to paint. Hazel played at Allie's after school and we had reading time together when she came home. We had a great family night outside about respecting differences.
Charlotte always thinks of her sister. I don't know if it's selflessness or just second-child sydrome, but whenever she gets a treat, like a candy corn I gave her today, she will either ask for a second one to give Hazel, or save a piece of it herself. Today she planned on giving the entire candy corn to Haze, but on the ride to pick Hazel up from school, she couldn't help but nibble away at it until the green tip was all that was left (it was a Halloween candy corn). Kills me.
Cute baby is sitting up with some help. So handsome.
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