Few More Pics from my Phone...

 

 

 

 All of the playground pictures are from the playground near the girls' preschool!  We're trying to make the most of the nice days before the winter pollution arrives!

 

 

 We're very into snails these days!

 Addy and her BFF!

 

 

 

 At preschool

 At picnic with preschool friends...very mixed reactions (ranging from curious to horrified) to our pbj!

Back to School x 3

 

This year we had three different first days of school...homeschool (first grade and PK4!), Classical Conversations (our homeschool co-op) and the preschool they attend in their second language.  Lots of chances to eat our traditional first-day-of-school-monster-cookies!

Addy's Rainbow Birthday Party

 Making the cakes (we made little individual cakes in mason jars...bit of a pinterest fail but Addy liked it)

 

 

 

 

Addy's Birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 Cutie-pie Addy wrote that!

 Ella spent hours and hours working on making presents for Adelaide.  She was so excited to finally be able to give them to her.

 

 

 

 

 This was one of my favorite of Ella's presents - she made an octopus family!  She is so creative!

 

 Another present from Ella...a microphone

Busy Girls...

 riding in an electric rickshaw - their favorite means of transport

 

 tie dye!

 taking apart an old dvd player

 learning to play the piano (he also taught them to swim this summer)

 

 practicing hospitality (the namecards were Ella's idea)

 playing with one of our favorite babies! (her daddy works for L)

 making biscuits

 

making fall decorations

We've had a very sweet summer as a family!  Lots of fun memories.  We're loving the stage our girls are in!