Getting Creative

This is one of Leo's latest school projects.  I thought it was so cute and his teacher told me he was very insistent about wanting one fish to be leaping out of the bowl. 

This is one of Sophia's latest drawings.  She loves to draw and create and is often found at her desk doing such tasks.  This picture shows her and Daddy and at the playground.  Daddy is sitting in a red chair watching her play.  You'll also see ring monkey bars, a slide, and various other things.

We were outside one afternoon and decided to do some rubbings.  Both kids enjoy that, but I think Leo gets more excited about taking the paper off the crayons. :)

Of course after that we had to get some play time in!  

Sophia is really getting the hang of jump roping!  Yay!

Leo is right on the verge of pumping.  He will do it but usually only when you're pushing him, which is somewhat counter productive but hey, we're getting there!

Although you can't really tell, this is Sophia doing the monkey bars backwards.  She can go backwards and forwards and tried to do one handed the other day, but quickly learned that was more difficult than she anticipated. ;)

We had some of those gel capsules that soak in water and out pops a sponge...they were very fascinated by this!  They enjoyed watching each one evolve and had fun guessing which animal was which before it was fully formed.

I'd been saving some small plastic bottles so we could do some stamp painting with them.  We made some Mother's Day cards adorned with out garden of colorful flowers.  They turned out so cute, but I obviously forgot to take an "after" picture.  The kids were so excited to make me one that they shoo'd me out of the room and did it in secret and then hid it in the garage until Mother's Day.