A little duet

My girls like doing things together... See?






























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A little flexibility...

The beauty of a homeschool day...

Rushing home from Bible study, we stopped at the grocery store then home to finish school work, lunch, cooking for friends who had a baby and tumbling class before we have to deliver dinner, have our own dinner and get ready for bed... Busy day! So Leah was practicing skip counting while I made her lunch and she said "This time, can I do it standing on my head?"

Yes... Yes you can...

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A little homework

This was a hundred times more fun than I thought it would be! So far home school days have been a success...

A little desk...


Welcome to kindergarten!


Writing practice...





Some art...


Computer time...


Little sister wants to climb all over Leah and her desk so we have to distract with cooking and cleaning the kitchen...


Leah has a stack of sight words we practice... And she makes up sentences... :)


Spelling practice...


Writing numbers...


Coloring and games...


Field trip!!


And our second day, we are getting in the groove...


And poor Ava is so sad that she isn't in kindergarten too!!











Really, really, really good times!

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A little warrior

It happened! My teeny tiny baby girl grew up and started kindergarten... She's an LCA warrior!














She is now a school kid... With homework! And not just any homework.... school work at home aka homeschool aka Leah's-not-the-only-one-who-started-kindergarten! This week I make my debut as a kindergarten teacher! Yes... two of Leah's school days will be "satellite days" at home where I will be her teacher. What!?!?!? I signed up for this... I remember doing it... With a smile on my face... But am I really doing this???

So after two full days of kindergarten at a big kid school, the most important thing on Leah's mind was "Why are uniforms so hot? All I do is sweat!" :-)






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It's been too long

So much life is going on I can't find time to blog about it... And then I do find some time, and my app forsakes me after half an hour of writing and posting pictures again... But my phone and my computer can't agree on how to upload or download or save anything. Common denominator... I know I know...

Regardless of my technological handicaps, I had to share what is currently my favorite picture of the Curley sisters. These days are full of good times...


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FOOD!

We imagine this is going to be Ava's first real word. (Other than the dada, mama she already says) We imagine she will say it loud and with vigor!!

She looooves to eat. She will and has eaten ANYTHING and EVERYTHiNG we have offered.... Except cantaloupe! She gagged each time and eventually swiped angrily at my hand to get me to stop offering it to her! Funny... it's Leah's favorite fruit!

Here was a weird-clean-out-the-fridge-and-freezer-day that I happened to photograph her meal for my own amusement. Cinnamon raisin toast, turkey sausage, frozen veggies, fresh green beans....


Hooray for food!!!


Yum yum yum...


Mmmmm.... Mmm


Slurp!


Lady, quit playing around with these bites and GIMME A PLATE!!


Now I can get down...


All done!


This was all we lost!!


And she ate another piece of raisin toast too.

(You can see Leah's progression in the background as well. This was a day she was sick and was watching a movie while she ate.)

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Santa baby...

Our plan to see Santa at Nordstrom as usual this year was thwarted. (Did I just dangle my participle? hmm... how inappropriate! Our usual plan was thwarted...) So we made different plans... Then had to change them again and again due to long lines, bad weather and life in general. We finally ended up, the week before Christmas, in a less than desirable sticky-ice-cream-underfoot-line waiting for Santa to get back from his smoke break!

But when he did... He was kind and jolly. The girls sat and smiled... Leah told him she would like a big stuffed Princess Aurora doll and that Ava would like some pacifiers that glow in the dark. And then they sat and smiled... And sat and smiled some more... And then the 16 year old who seemed to be using the santa camera for the very first time ever, finally decided to take some pictures...


And by the time she did...


Ava was so over this festive moment...


The pic below was the "professional" shot and was by far the best one of the 4 she took. Though there was ample time for adorable smiley shots to be snapped of my two happy girls with jolly old St. Nick, I actually love it. I think Leah's face actually got stuck in this position after holding her smile for so long. And check out Ava's look of total disdain...



Ha! Love love love...

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Sister selfies

Leah and Ava's first set of sister selfies...












They come from a long line of selfie-taking sisters...





Here we were seeing how we would look with bangs... Sort of...


And Leslie channeling Chris Kattan's monkey character from SNL... Creepy right?


Sisters!


Wonder how many sets of sister selfies these two will take?


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