Yellow Skirt

Not long ago Aaron's mom mentioned that she could teach me to make some simple skirts for Nora. Given how quickly Nora outgrows dresses, I jumped at the chance. I love that we can make them the length we want. We have made two now, plus lengthened a dress, with probably a couple more skirts to come later. (I have her Easter skirt fabric all picked out!) 

This yellow one is the first one we did. Fortunately Nora decided she loved it enough to wear it to church.... I wasn't sure she would be willing to give up her too-short brown dress. I love how the skirt turned out. It's incredibly adorable!

This Sunday morning was drizzly and chilly and the kids were only sort-of focused on the camera. But they made some great funny faces! 

Valentines

We have a lovely Valentines Day this year. We had our Valentines tree, which was slowly decorated for the first 13 days of the month. 

Zeke was super excited to take race car valentines with Kit-Kats to his classmates.

Aaron didn't have to work on Valentines Day (yay!) so we went flying in the late afternoon and then spent the rest of the evening running errands and making dinner together. 

Creative Kids

There is a lot of creating going on at our house these days!

Coloring and drawing is a staple, particularly for Nora. She often wants to do homework right along with Zeke. Her current favorite medium is marker, and she will color the whole page navy blue, red, or magenta. Thank goodness these washable markers really do wash out of clothing!   

Both kids are in heaven with PlayDoh. Mom and dad aren't so crazy about the mess, but the kids have a blast. We have a food set, so they create all sorts of 'tasty' things. Zeke loves the ice cream cone (with sprinkles!) and the popsicles and has been awesome about cleaning up. 

Nora loves the molds and cutting out various food items - it is one of her very favorite things. Here she has a piece of bread and a cookie. She also loves to make pretzels.

Zeke has of late been leaving me pictures on our white board, usually with a story to go with it. Here we are as gingerbread people, 

and this windmill has the caption 'Wheat can make bread and flour.' I love the stalk of wheat, loaf of bread, and sack of flour next to the windmill. 

January So Far

We started our January off busy! 

Making gingerbread cookies

Visiting and playing at the Loertscher party on New Years Day

Meeting cousin Jacob and opening presents with him 

Dressing up for church

And building puzzles we got for Christmas

Here's to 2014!