Thursday, December 2, 2010

Land of Princess

Princess has decided to start her very own blog called........

Land of Princess




Her blog covers a wide variety of topics: fashion, beauty, play, health, nature, fun and animals. She chose her layout, design and a few gadgets that she thought were fun. She is working hard on her first post. I am excited to see how this develops.

This was, of course, all her own idea. Learning does happen all the time and there is so much learning in creating and writing posts for a blog. Fortunately, the state of Oregon doesn't require that we record how much time is spent in each subject, but if they did... Well gosh, this would certainly cover a lot!

spelling
grammar
writing
typing
language arts
and more!

Learning never stops!

Please head over to her blog. She has one post up already and would love your comments! My dad left a comment yesterday and when she saw it her face lit up!!

(As a reminder to those of you who know us, please remember to keep our names private.)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Pre-Hanukka

Hanukka starts tonight! Princess is super excited. We celebrate Hanukka and the Winter season. When the Lizard King and I got together he told me it didn't matter what we celebrate, but he wanted a tree. We came up with the Winter tree and chose to decorate with lots of Winter and snowy decorations. With Hanukka so early this year, we are barely getting the tree up in time for the festivities. 

Snowman Collection
Bins of Winter & Hanukka Decor
My Dreidel Collection
Yes, the Snowman collection is bigger than the dreidel collection.
The New Winter Tree






That's as far as we got last night. It seems the lights need new lights. We'll be finishing tonight, the first night of Hanukka, just under the wire (or would that be at the wire?).

The Lizard King went off to bed once the tree was up and the snowflake topper was in place. Princess had other ideas...

She placed her play plates in the tree as nests...


...and placed a bird in each nest.

Meet Tulip
Meet Pasquale
Meet Feather
Meet Daisy
This imaginative play went on for a good hour and is taking place again this morning. Who knew a Winter tree could be so much fun?!