Our Resident Artist

Hannah had a WONDERFUL time at art camp. The theme for the week was "It's A Bug's World". She made a paper mache' of a lady bug and it has glow-in-the-dark paint on it. She painted a forest scene on a canvas. She decorated a tshirt and started a "sketch book". She also made a glow-in-the-dark butterfly. She's ready to go again whenever we'll let her! She told Brent last night that she can draw butterflies very good because she is "an artist". When she got paint on her coverup, Ms Susan (her teacher) told her that she was "wearing her art".

Brock is doing a good job of writing letters. He has a few he needs to get in the correct direction but otherwise, he's doing a very good job. He is only 3 1/2 so I'm happy that he's holding his pencil correctly!

Corinne has a molar coming in the bottom right side of her mouth. She still thinks most everything we do is funny and is climbing on anything she can get up on. She has learned that climbing on the trunk is a "no-no" but she'll still go over to it, put her knee up on it and look at me to see what I'm going to do about it. Very cute but I don't let her know I think she's cute! The main lesson she's learning right now is to sit, not stand, on the couch.

Emma prefers walking over crawling now. She still has her "sneaky" walk but she's fairly steady now. She too can crawl up on the couch so she's learning to sit, not stand, as well. She does okay until her sister climbs up with her and leads her down the wrong path:) She has a molar coming in the bottom left side of her mouth. We've started letting both girls walk to/from the van, into buildings, etc. I had forgotten how much more time it takes to get somewhere with a toddler walking beside you...and Emma takes even longer.

Brent is at the lot trying to clear away some of the tall grass. He's meeting a builder there next week to get some ideas on house construction costs, house location on the lot, etc. We're in the very beginning stages of getting ready to build. We'll hopefully know more after he meets this builder next week.

Our dryer quit working Thursday night so we found a used one today. Long story but we were very happy to not buy a new one at this time. At least we can have clean, DRY clothes now. And the man we bought it from was even nice enough to take our old one to the dump! (It was beyond repair even for a repairman.)

That's all for now. I still need to learn how to post photos. I'll try to do that soon. Until then...I'll send photos via walmart.com when I can.

The Freeland Family