doodle art

Todd uses videos for school.  They are very good, but sometimes, especially with his art class, we just watch the art project and don't actually do it.  I'm ok with this because most of the art projects are more craft-y than art-y.  And every year the boys take art classes at the Art School for Children at UHCL.  Those classes are so much better than anything we learn on the video.

 

 





 

However, last week's art lesson was about doodle art.  It was such a fun idea that we needed to try it.  Todd has water color pencils and water color paper

( Thank you Uncle Chris and Aunt Johanna for the neat Christmas present!)

 

We took turns and experimented with several ideas and ended up with this doodle art.

Doodle art is easy.  You can do it with a pencil and crayons, if that's what you have.  Just doodle out a shape or you can doodle out some loops and swirls if you don't care to have a particular shape.  Then you color in different parts of the doodle different colors.  We used the water color pencils and after we got done coloring we painted our doodle art.

 

 

A flower for Megan.

 

S for Seth.

 T for Todd.

We like them so well that they are going in frames and on the wall.

sunday snapshot: photo a day week four

SUNDAY held a first for me:  popcorn made on the stovetop.

(Read this as we still have no microwave)

 

 

 

 

MONDAY:  Megan taking a snack over to a play date at the neighbors.

 

 

 

TUESDAY:  Todd doing school at the kitchen table.

 WEDNESDAY:  Celebrating the half way point of the school year (lesson 85!) at Menchie's!!!!

 Megan gives it two thumbs up.

 

 

 

THURSDAY:  Playing with our friends at Challenger Park.

 

 

 

FRIDAY:   Wrestling with Daddy...what else would we do on a Friday night?

SATURDAY:  Riding bikes.

my little coffee drinker

Much like her momma, Megan likes to drink coffee. 

 



golden crescent rolls

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away...or maybe just in Louisiana, I was a Girl Scout.  My Girl Scout leader was really awesome.  She was industrious, frugal, and fun.  I learned so much from her (thank you, Mindy Ford!).  I remember the homemade butter we made during one troop meeting by shaking cream in a baby food jar.  I also remember the delicious crescent rolls we made to go with that homemade butter.  I have no idea what recipe we used for those rolls, but I have remembered them fondly all these years.  Besides, I have no love for the canned crescent rolls.  Something just ain't right about those things.  

Last week I tried out this recipe for Golden Crescent Rolls.  They were a lot of work.  They took a lot of time.  They didn't last very long, because they were so, very good.  And they brought with them that memory of making butter and crescent rolls with my Girl Scout troop. 

 

I was watching a YouTube video on how to knead bread. 

Got my triangles cut.

All rolled up.

Baked and ready to eat!

 

I made one pan of regular crescent rolls.  The rest I spread with butter, sugar, and cinnamon chips before I rolled them up.  We had those for breakfast the next day.

sunday snapshot: photo a day, week three

 

1   Editing photos in Lightroom.

2   Megan watching Phineas and Ferb on the Ipod.

3   Making crescent rolls from scratch

4   Twins night at AWANAs, or triplets in our case.

5   Seth playing with the static electricity on the trampoline.

6   Megan drinking her coffee.

7   Seth's crazy jump off the trampoline

 

 

sunday snapshot: photo a day week 2

Here we are on week two of 2013.

This week I remembered to take a photo every day. 

I'm so happy I did or I might have missed something really special.

 

 

 

1.  Megan on Sunday morning with her hair all twisted up to make it curly and fancy for church.

2.  Seth reading his History book.

3.  Megan playing in the rain.

4.  Muffy asleep with her blankies.

5.  Wonder by R.J. Palacio.  My second book of the year.

6.  Todd and Megan doing school in the kitchen.

7.  Our Bradford Pear tree that thinks it's fall and time to drop leaves.  That's what happens in January down here in Texas.

 

 



oh todd

 Oh, Todd, you don't like the camera.  You dodge it whenever you can.  I keep telling you that when you are thirty years old, you're going to think that your mom didn't love you as much because there aren't as many photos of you.  When I tell you this and that all I want is one photo of you looking at me, you give me this face.  And that's a face I love so much.