A vest

18 Mar
Blueberry Pie

I made this vest for Blueberry Pie to go to a dance.

The button holes were kind of wonky, but I’m telling myself that they are hidden behind the buttons so it’s not a big deal.

Blueberry is such a handsome guy.

Eye Color

17 Mar

The Scooter Pies’ eye color is a source of ongoing fascination and debate to us because all our other children have brown eyes. It gets hard for us to know if we are really seeing gray or green, or if it’s just wishful thinking on our part.

I am pretty sure these eyes will turn brown just like all the other kiddie pies’ eye did. But the Man of the House and his mother insist that the eyes will be blue.

It is true that none of the other kiddie pies had these dark gray eyes for this long.

‘Nana Pie

14 Mar
Apple Pie and “nana pie”

I’ve never made banana cream pie,

(Pumpkin Pie made this one, from scratch)

but I would make it again and again so I could hear Apple Pie say, “Please can I have more nana pie?”

Venn Diagram Lesson

13 Mar

An easy concept to grasp, thanks to Aunt Katie for having a family of all boys and Emilie for having a family of all girls, our lesson was a success! #homeschoolrocks #homeschoolinglife

Caught Gray-Handed

6 Mar

Guess we will see if black and white sidewalk chalk washes off yellow paint 😬😅😅

Skeeter Pie

This is Good

4 Mar
Zeke pushing Skeeter round and around

So much cuteness, I’m gonna die.

Mistake

27 Feb

I was out with the twins and decided to quickly get some groceries…just a few things.

I have now downgraded my dinner plans twice to easier (less healthy) options,

and I’m currently attempting to recover on the couch with a bag of chocolate chips.

#twinsarefun #butineedanap

Who needs Pockets?

26 Feb

Skeeter found a great place to store his blocks.

Skeeter Pie

Zeke thought it looked like a good idea, so he tried it too.

Zekey Pie

St. Louis Temple Day

25 Feb

We had a special time in the temple today with my in-laws and our niece, Maddy, who will be leaving for her mission soon.

Field Trip to Crystal Bridges

24 Feb
I didn’t label this picture soon enough. My best guess is that this is Skeeter Pie 😬 but I am not 100% sure.

And a nugget from CS Lewis: on the reason we read fairy tales, myths, and folk tales to our children:

“The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity’. The child enjoys his cold meat (otherwise dull to him) by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savoury for having been dipped in a story; you might say that only then is it the real meat. If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.”

~ C. S. Lewis, On Stories and Other Essays

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