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This past week

Since we didn't make it to Elise's birthday party a couple of weeks ago due to the weather, we went this past weekend for a visit. The kids all had a fun time playing together, of course, and we adults always have a good time catching up. 

Little Women

Elise opening up her gift from us.

Elise and Brynn playing with the Lego set we gave Elise.


It was pretty nice on Saturday, so headed down to the barn to visit the cows.

Goldie and Daisy are all grown up!



Reagan and Elise tried getting Brynn into Clue, but it was Brynn's first time playing it and she thought it was rather complicated.


Watching TV

Tessa lent us her little play kitchen set. We have yet to find a more permanent spot for it, but the girls have been 'cooking' all kinds of things in there.





Brynn had been saying for some time now that she doesn't like her bed next to the window. We have some struggles at night time between storms, nightmares and outside noises, etc. So, we thought we would try other things to help her sleep well at night. And she said she was kind of tired of the way her room was set up and wanted a bit of a change. So, we did some rearranging this week and she say it's working out really well for her.


On Monday Brynn's class went on a field trip to the Plains Art Museum where they made clay dinosaurs. Brynn's teacher texted this photo of Brynn to us which was so nice. You can kind of see her dinosaur there in her hands.


Clara is well-known for being a moocher...and a snacker. She always goes and finds this tub of peanut butter pretzel bites. She was having some after supper last night. 






When I was home Wednesday afternoon with the girls, Brynn seemed to be having a challenging day with me in regard to her attitude and not listening. I let her type in Word on my computer for a while while I was upstairs making supper. I had kind of forgotten that she had been on my computer until today when I went on it and saw she had typed this note to me. :-)


Comments

carrington said…
Love! Love! Love the pics! Clara is so funny! Happy for Brynn with her new bedroom arrangement - that's always fun & refreshing. Love her note to u. :)

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