One rainy day we got creative - out came the paints and Jacob's trains, all much used and loved, with paint chipped off here and there, and the fun began!
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Notes by Nette: One rainy day we got creative - out came the paints and Jacob's trains, all much used and loved, with paint chipped off here and there, and the fun began! |
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Trains. |
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Painting
supplies. |
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Geneva hugging
Sissy? |
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Still. |
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Two tired pups. |
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Uh-oh, Bella
saw the camera and wants a lick... |
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Jacob and his
dad worked one afternoon and built a wooden castle for him to play...
all sorts of make-believe games! |
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Megan,
instructing a friend on her piano technique. |
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Laurent and
friend. |
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Laurent and
Lolly (or is it Molly - I can never figure out what the kids decided to
name her after we discovered that Wally was a girl...) |
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Daddy and
Button Boy - don't they both look comfy? |
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A painting
project! I up and decided one day that I wanted something in my
house to NOT be white, and I figured the smallest test module would be
the master bath. I said "I want red" and the very next weekend,
Paul had the paint and got the job done. The first two pics are
the primer phase. |
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Two views of
the final result. It's very red. I LOVE IT!! Black
trim will finish it off nicely, when I get around to doing it. |
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Megan did some
clay modeling one afternoon. This is a rose and the sun in the
background. |
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This is fire. |
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This is earth
and the sun (the colors on the earth were much brighter in real life,
but our camera flash was not cooperating that day). |
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A collage
Megan put together of plant life photographs. |
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Here are some
photos from Grandma Heidmann's birthday bash. Laurent is lighting
candles here. |
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Singing to
Grandma. |
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Grandthings
and Grandma. |
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Kika and Jan
looking on. |
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Jadyn looking
cute. |
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Joe. |
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Jake. |
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JT. |
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Laurent. |
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Jon. |
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This was an
experiment. What happens when you mix yeast, sugar, and warm
water? |
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This picture
should have been deleted. |
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Ahhhh, the
bubbles have begun. |
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Megan looking
at something intriguing through the microscope... |
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A major sewing
project was begun and nearly finished one afternoon, with guidance from
Mother Heidmann. |
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Jacob chose
this magnificent cherry-red flannel as the fabric for a cloak. |
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Here is the
nearly finished product - needs hemming and a hood, but I was pretty
pleased that I was able to get it together this well, being the
inexperienced seamstress that I am. |
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In this photo
we see a bouquet of flowers that were purchased primarily so Megan
could take two of them and dissect them for science; that they are
gorgeous is an added bonus. Also, a lovely green mug I found at
Wal-Mart for myself - just the right size for coffee. Also, the
plum colored fabric I will be using to make cloaks like Jacobs for the
older two girls; and the corner of some gorgeous sky-blue satin I
picked up for $1/yd. for Geneva. |
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Sadly this
photo does not do justice to the color of the blue, but you can see it
has a lovely drape. |
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For Paul's
birthday cake, I made a three layer cake, and mixed a quadruple batch
of frosting into four colors. |
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I baked three
cake mixes, one after the other, in my 5-qt pressure cooker pan.
It worked marvelously - it's the perfect size for one cake mix! |
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Here is a side
vew of the first two layers of the cake. Each child got to do a
color. |
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Another view. |