Gracie lost her two front teeth earlier this month. She was excited about it. She consented to a few pictures. I have been practicing braiding her hair, now that it is getting longer. I am still learning. I thought it would be a good model for her, showing her that it gets better and better the more I practice. You don't get it perfect the first time (something that she finds endlessly frustrating in her own life).
This is her model face.
The is her giggle.
My girl.
A view of the braids. It has been a full year (I think) since her last hair cut. Grace has the slowest growing hair ever, it seems. She likes it long.
Eli likes to build a "house" on the couch. He instructs you how to build it, telling you where to put the walls and the roof and the door. He was sitting in there one day and I lifted up the roof to peek in. I still have the mental image of the little boy sitting cross-legged in that tiny space, looking straight up out of the opening in the pillows, beaming from ear to ear. He thinks it is very funny.
This is Charlotte working at her desk on evening. She loves to make cards and signs and write stories. She is better at starting projects than at finishing them, but she really is very creative with what she comes up with.
Finally, here is a video of Eli playing with the word magnets on the girls' white board. It is a full 10 minutes long, which I realize may be overboard for a kid video. It seems like the standard attention span for watching videos of other people's kids probably maxes out around 1:30. But I couldn't figure out how to trim it. I could watch him all day. He starts to get frustrated with me around 7:30 and I even find that endearing. I am just crazy about this kid.
