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Monday, September 28, 2009

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Summer Orchestra

This is a video of Matthew's summer orchestra program. They put on an amazing concert for us. It's made up of kids in 5th-9th grades. It ends abruptly, unfort---

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for the lapse in updates, but I will try to fill in the blanks between July and September.... Now that the kids are off to school again, I just might have moment to do so.

For now, here are the photos of back to school time at our house.

Megan Ling is all set to go!!
Mary Alice and Matthew could do without the photo session!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Megan's 5th Birthday Party

Today was Megan's birthday party. The theme was insects and we had a great time. First, we played games where we pretended we were bees in a hive,

then we played Buzz, Buzz, Sting,

then Pin the Bee on the Flower.

We ate Butterfly sandwiches and drank Nectar (an idea from Megan's preschool teachers) out of a flower with straws.

We put on fun insect aprons and decorated wooden insect plaques.
Everyone did beautiful work.

Then, we acted out The Very Hungry Caterpillar story, by Eric Carle. Earlier, we painted the foods from the story and then held them up as the children "ate" through them. Then we put ourselves into a cocoon (a bedsheet) and stayed inside until we were beautiful butterflies. The children chose two fabric pieces to wave in their arms while running around the yard. It was very cute to see how much they enjoyed it.