Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms out there. We didn't have a big mother's day post, because mama got the day off. The day started with letting mama sleep in and breakfast in bed (eggs, bacon, sausage, english muffins, strawberries AND flowers!). We spent the morning at a park then sent mama to the mall. She's found that her previous summer wardrobe of mostly black business clothes doesn't translate to the stinking hot south as a stay at home mom. She was excited to blow some of her birthday money and now has new tank tops and flowly dresses to get her through the summer. Papa took care of the kids all day and even cleaned the house. What a great day!
Since we don't have any new pictures, here's some of my most recent artwork.
Since we don't have any new pictures, here's some of my most recent artwork.
A giraffe puppet I made at school.
I painted this beautiful flower.
I glued the rainbow over Noah's ark. We don't know why the blog keeps turning the picture sideways.
Gluing is one of my favorite activities. Check out this bird's colorful feathers.
I don't care for coloring that much. I tried to finish this one quickly.
This is one of mama's favorites. I made it at the Leesburg street festival when we were in DC last month. I had a good time placing the stickers. Note the squirrel climbing the tree and the butterflies flying in the sky.
This bunny did have a pink cottontail before Juner got to it.
We used bingo markers to decorate my kite.
Here's the flower I made mama for Mother's Day.
Here's the poem that explains the scrubbie on the flower.
I even painted mama a special card.
And put my hands in it!
Every year, papa gets out a special scrapbook that we decorate for mama with artwork and the reasons we love her. This year was especially fun because I came up with the reasons on my own. Among them were "We made her breakfast to eat in bed because I lover her" and she took me to the cookie factory." Then Juner got to scribble with a marker on the page and I drew some pictures. I wrote the letter H and drew the following: a rock, another rock, a big rock, a little rock, another rock, a beer bottle (eek!), and a road for cars to drive on to go to the cookie factory.
Tonight, mama was getting me ready for bed when I announced that I would sit in her lap for story time. When she asked me why, I explained that her legs didn't hurt so much when she wore shorts. (Confidential to mama: It's summer and time to bump up the shaving schedule to more than once a week.)
Finally, mama gave herself a present yesterday and announced that she was done nursing June. She felt a little guilty, but it has been 23 months since she got pregnant and she thinks June can make it on her own now. Next week, she'll expect us all to get jobs. Not to worry though, June hasn't hardly noticed the difference and is still going to sleep just fine without mama.
