Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Few Pretty Much Unrelated Pictures

My mom gave me a little book called 365 TV Free Activites and it has a lot of creative ideas in it. One is to make a stuffed animal zoo - which we did last week.You would be surprised at how many seemingly exotic animals are native to Ohio, Arkansas and the North Pole.

This is my mother's day present from Caleb:It's an Apple Snail shell - and this is a small one!

Annalise usually doesn't like things in her hair, but lately she's asked for pony tails a few times. She was very pleased with this:Her exact reaction was, "I have palm trees on my head!"

Mako is now 6 1/2 years old and is starting to go gray - note his goteeAnd evidently you can teach an old dog new tricks. We have tried in vain to keep him from barking at the neighbor's dogs. In a sudden stroke of inspiration I decided to spray him with the water hose when he started in on the dogs and it made an impression! Yesterday one of the dogs barked tauntingly at him and he sniffed and walked away!

And finally, I can't let a good piece of cardboard go to waste:We got a new vacuum recently and it just seemed like such a nice big box to throw away without making something out of it - and the kids were very pleased with their flat selves. Annalise did her own face, but asked me to draw her clothes and shoes.

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