Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Rainy Morning at Home and a Jane Vocab Update-- March 28


Hazel hard at work, illustrating the poem "The Whole Duty of Children" by Robert Louis Stevenson.  She is drawing the little children behaving mannerly at the table (at least as far as they are able).


We spent much of this rainy morning looking at the birds out the window, and this has been the most interesting visitor to the yard in a while.  Jane loves watching the birds, and we all joined in to watch this one dig around in the yard.

Jane's vocabulary is growing rapidly, we've gotten to the point where there are new words pretty much daily.  She has a few favorite books where she gets to use a few of her words, including Goodnight Gorilla, Goodnight Moon, Fish Kisses, Big Red Barn,  and we've just added Jamberry to the favorites.  

Jane's Words:

Mama 
Daddy 
Dog 
That?
Uh-oh 
Good-night
No!
Uh-uh (means no)
Uh -huh  (means yes)
Fish 
Bye 
Shhh! (complete with putting her finger to her lips)
Uh-oh!
Book
Baby 
Up
More
Down
Outside
This?
Ball
Horse 
Emma 
Juice
Shoes
Mine
Banana
Bunny
Balloon
oh/ ahhh
hat
Grandad
Bear



Red Mountain Open Space-- March 25


We ventured down to the Red Mountain Open Space, which is in Colorado.  It was a fair and sunny day, and the scenery felt a little like visiting the desert southwest for an afternoon.

Jane insisted on walking, but she can't quite keep up with Hazel and Vivian yet!  The path followed a creek for the first stretch, and the girls enjoyed tossing little pebbles in and looking at the plants growing there.



Hazel and Vivian were delighted to discover that the mountain mahogany and a few other little shrubby things were just starting to show leaves.




Curt Gowdy State Park -- February 20


A very windy day, but it was pretty manageable in the trees. 










Bicycling (Maybe it is spring!) -- February 17


Stopping to look tentatively at the bat house.



Hazel (above) on her pedal bike.  We raised the seat up and she zooms around on it now.


Vivian on her Strider.  Vivian has the happiest little feet on that Strider bike, she scoots along fast enough to keep up with Hazel and she just looks so cheerful while she does it.

Spring? -- February 15


We had  a beautiful sunny day, and all the snow was pretty much gone.  The girls got out balls, played on the swings, climbed on the jungle gym, and generally had a good time exploring the yard now that they could be outside without dressing warmly at all.








Hazel and Vivian playing church.


Jane is not reliable on the big girl swing yet, but she likes the idea of it!  You've got to watch her, because she'll let go with no warning at all.