10/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014."

Harrison: You love your Lego so much! An invasion of minifigures with all 158 of them lined up and ready for battle! You had fun knocking them over afterwards.

Amelie: This photo says it all, you love baking and licking anything that has been used to create our baking! Chocolate chippies were on the menu today.  So often you will say to me during the week, 'can we do baking?' followed by 'chocolate chippie biscuits!'  These have to be your favourite, maybe because the batter tastes so good! and because I always give you a container with some extra choc chips to munch on while we bake.  'The' special container that my Nannie used to put choc chips in for me as a treat when I baked with her many years ago!

Finley: Smiles for your big sister! You love her so much and she makes you laugh!  

Homework & home readers started up this week at school for Harrison.  I love hearing him read, it blows me away how much he has learnt since starting school a year ago.  He is really enjoying a series of secret agent chapter books that he is getting out from the school library.  We read a few chapters to him each night, there has been lots of secret agent role play going on this week!

Over the past couple of weeks something has clicked with Amelie and all of a sudden she is interested in writing her name, she has been able to do an A for quite a while now but she is really into practicing writing all of her name.  Her drawings have also come a  long way from the scribble and she is loving drawing our whole family.  It was Poppa's birthday this week so we sent home a birthday card for him; it was of her and Poppa when they went to the zoo last year (something Amelie remembers fondly) and they were looking at a lion. I loved how it had a tummy button and Poppa had nearly as many whiskers as the lion did!

Cutting with scissors has also been a highlight this week. Her cutting skills are definitley improving and she's had great fun cutting out clothes from a fashion magazine! 

Finley has settled down this week with the top teeth both properly through and a concentrated effort last weekend on some sleep training! What a difference it makes with his sleep being back to normal!

I love watching him interact with Harrison & Amelie as the weeks pass, seeing the joy they bring to his day.