Games for 2 year olds

I came across this link tonight, so we decided to try teaching Ring around the rosy to Hannah. It was hysterical! Thought I’d share a video. This is another link with fun things to do. We laughed and smiled together a whole lot tonight.

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Pumpkin Carving

Hannah actually kind of understood what we were doing this year. Audrey didn’t care. But pumpkins are pretty cool. This proves once and for all: I am a nerdy piano teacher. And it was fun, too. Hannah helped get one handful of the pumpkin guts out, then she was done.

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On playing outside

Hannah requested we go outside today. I don’t really remember the last time she asked. It’s funny. Of late, I have not thought of myself as a particularly outdoorsy person. In the past year (or two!), we have done more tv watching than I care to admit. As we were playing outside today, I was [...]

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My love

Three years ago Tuesday, I married my best friend. It was a rainy, misty day, the coldest July day in Colorado Springs history. The ceremony that was to be outside was moved inside, to the barn already decorated to host the reception. Tables were pushed aside for an aisle, the wreath wrapped with ribbon and [...]

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This made me smile today. I grew up with chickens in the backyard too. Apricots and chickens. Actually, the chickens enjoyed the apricots also.

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Mmmmm…apricots. We got a whole bunch of them in our door to door order this week. Apricots hold a special place in my memories. When I was growing up in southern California, we had a huge apricot tree in the middle of our backyard. I remember the taste of them, picked ripe right off the [...]

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