These magnetic toys are Annie’s current favorite part of going to the library.

After story time yesterday she wanted to build houses for Bunny (she pronounces it Bumby and it’s pretty adorable).

So we built a square house, a triangle house, a diamond house, and a hexagon house.

I’m not sure if Bunny had a favorite.

I think Annie liked them all equally though and, no surprise, her favorite part was knocking each one down.

Maggie wanted to play outside after Little Flowers. After letting her ride her bike for a while I gave her a five minute warning because I was getting chilly.

Then heard her tell her doll, “We hafta go inside in 5 minutes because great grandma is getting cold.”

Maggie had her monthly Little Flowers meeting yesterday (think Catholic Girl Scouts – with the badges and a sash, but no selling cookies and each month they learn about a different saint/virtue). For this month the girls met at a nursing home and did puzzles and colored while visiting with the residents.

Maggie and her new friend, Miss Thelma, did two puzzles together – one of hummingbirds and one with a puppy on it.

Then Maggie asked if she could pick a song on the sing-along (karaoke) machine. She opted for “My Country Tis of Thee.” I had her reenact her performance when we got home (you’re welcome).

Check out these adorable kiddos.

Height check!

I made Maggie’s dress earlier in the week and finished JoJo’s minutes before we had to leave for the photo appointment. I love how they turned out. When I had Jo try on the purple pinafore, she said, “I a ballerina! I look pretty.” It makes me want to sew one for her in every shade of purple (since that’s her favorite color).

Eskimo kisses.

Luke asked if the photographer would take a picture of just him and Annie together.

I’m so glad that he did, because this one of them hugging is one of my favorites.

Annie really stole the show. She did such a great job of listening to the photographer.

Her curls are almost gone and I’m really going to miss them.

Dimples!

We let Bunny hop in to a few pictures.

I am so happy with how they turned out. We’ve got some super cute kids.

On Tuesday morning the kids and I went to the book fair before school. They have a game near the register where you randomly pick a pencil and if your pencil has a colored dot on the bottom, you get to pick a book from a bin of prize books.

I let the kids each play twice that morning and Adam ended up winning with both of his picks – lucky duck. It costs a quarter per pencil, the money is donated to the Boys and Girls Club, and worst case scenario – you get a fun pencil.

The kids were each visiting the book fair again this week with their classes. Since we’d already done our shopping together, I gave each of them a dollar so they could play the pencil game a few more times while their classmates shopped.

Luke’s class went yesterday and he got himself a soccer bookmark for fifty cents and then played the pencil game twice. He won with one of his picks and while looking through his book options, decided to get one for Maggie. He told me it was a “perfect Maggie book” because it “has glitter and unicorns on the cover and it’s a graphic novel.”

Maggie was so excited by Luke’s thoughtfulness. She sat down and finished up the book she was currently reading so she could dive right in to the unicorn one. Luke was thrilled by her reaction and how happy she was with his choice (it really is a perfect Maggie book).

Those two haven’t been getting along the best lately. Maggie’s been practicing her role as pesky little sister and Luke hasn’t had much patience with her.  I fully expect that I’ll be back to refereeing them soon, but for last night at least, they were pretty awesome to each other.

Maggie brought this bear home yesterday. It says “Love is learning to be kind. Love is to love each other. Love is my baby sister.” I love it.♡

Adam had an aquarium themed math project to do this week. Based on the measurements of his tank, he had to calculate how many gallons of water it could hold. He also had to figure out the surface area of the water. Then with that information, and some other parameters of the assignment, he determined how many fish could live in the tank.

And here’s our crew at the bus stop this morning. Hopefully they’re all having a fantastic day.

Maggie’s teacher (who was also Adam and Luke’s first grade teacher) is a huge fan of Dr. Seuss. Since today was Read Across America Day (in honor of his birthday), I knew they’d being doing fun things in class to celebrate. So I made Maggie a special Seuss sweatshirt to wear to school.

I already had the panel with the quote on it and the Cat in the Hat fabric. I needed plain red though and wanted something else to go with it all.

So Maggie and I took a trip to the store and she picked out the blue flowered material. I love how well everything came together.

I had enough fabric leftover to make a shirt for Annie too.

I finished it last night and she wore it to story time at the library today.

After story time she wanted to build a big house with some of the magnetic toys they have there. I think we did a great job.

Annie was most excited to knock it all down. (She actually saw these pictures as I was getting this post ready and said, “I knock down house” and started laughing.)

I think both girls had super fun days today (and looked super cute too).