Another day of sunny heat, as per the weather report so we took the family BACK to the local conservatory this morning to enjoy the plants and flowers. The feature pyramid is just starting to be changed to a new one so while we were there workers were removing some of the flowers – something that entertained the boys to no end. The main reason for going was to (attempt apparently as she was less that willing to be our little model this time) take pictures of Trinity in the purple dress she received from her God-mommy Karyn. While making the 5 senses lapbooks we traced hands for a texture book and Trinity actually WANTED her hand traced as well, so I figured a copy of that and some pictures in the party dress would be a great little scrapbook page for each of her god-mommies.
All 4 of my Angels (Gavin left)
Sweetheart in the gazebo
Of course Trinity was MUCH more interested in creating her own flower inspired piece of art along with her brothers. So we did that as well. 4 very different interpretations on the contents of the same room. I do love seeing how each of our children “see” a room or an object.
Art for the moment
Top Zander, 2nd row Gavin then Trinity, bottom Emanuel
Thinking of crafts – I did get in some crafting myself last night – scrapbooking of course, this time my cousin Katie’s wedding (the stars in the bottom right corner are actually from her centre piece displays)…
Cousin Katie's wedding
and my favourite picture from Trinity’s birthday which was taken by Karyn. I used Karyn’s suggestion and the paper she helped me pick out at Michaels on Sunday to create a relatively simple but I think pretty page.
Birthday Photo
We had special visitors today too – Chris and Chris came by with their two pet ferrets! Amazingly enough NONE of the kids were truly frightened of them though it seems ferrets are a definite excitement factor as the boys got a little too wild for my liking. BUT Trinity was a real trooper, ready to sit there and pet them and talk to them and even allow them to walk around her. I was surprised, I thought for sure she would be intimidated just by how quickly the move.
Ferret! (Zander left)
I actually finished (started last night) another stitched piece, this one for my cousin David. Sadly I can’t post it here until he has at least seen a picture of it, so hopefully in the next couple days…
The big treat for tonight was a round of the new game Aunty Karyn dropped off for the boys this weekend – Kai Lan Dragon Race… a little TOO much excitement for Trinity.
Fun with Kai Lan (Gavin front)
Finally some rain to cool off the night but wow has this weather been brutal! And of course when the weather is overwhelming the pregnancy mind really kicks in, worrying about things KEN says HE will worry about, forgetting everything but the basics (I called mom last night and by the time she answered forgot why I called!)… things out of my hands become looming worries… BUT on the plus side, the kids are almost done two sets of lapbooks (waiting on Daddy to have a few moments to put in some spare pages for overflow), we had a blast at the conservatory yet again which ended with all 3 boys asking to go BACK another time and our life is pretty much like night and day from where we were this time last year. Which of course leads to Ken’s favourite promise – Kenny fix… and you know, he always has! Am I not a blessed and loved woman?
The picture Ken took