I had to take these photos of Zoe writing, "Tinkerbell's Spell" today. There was something beautiful about her mess of paper, crayons, markers, magazines and toy bears. There is also something beautiful about a child writing for fun, making up her own stories.
Yesterday Zoe explained to me how she made a beaded necklace: "I kept looking at the picture in my mind to see what to do next."
Meanwhile, Ashley is talking more and more. She likes to ask me how to spell words, because she hears Zoe asking me that all the time. We also write her name together, hand over hand. Then she gets all excited and asks me if she can, "Go show Daddy!"
I took a short video of the girls dancing to their High School Musical Soundtrack. Check out Ashley talking and dancing with Zoe! I'm going to type all the talking during the video, in case it's hard to understand them:
Ashley: This is fun! It is SO Fun!
Ashley: Look at I made this Mommy! Look, look!
Me: That's great!
Ashley: That's great?
Ashley: Mommy, (I'm) dancing!
Ashley: Look. Can I hold it? Can I hold it?
Me: Yea.
Ashley: Look, I made this. Mommy look. Please read it, Mommy. (read the card)
Ashley: It's for us. It's for us. (the cards and dresses are for Zoe and Ashley)
Zoe: Okay... (now she's borred of dancing... haha)
Below is Zoe's first email to Andy and I. Is this hilarious or what?!
Princesses ! love to play in the park eating chocolate ! chip cookies and playing with each other and you know prinesses love nail polish pink! =) and princesses love kits so a dress-up kit =) !i love princesses!!=)!! That’s right =)! Go cinderella go sleeping beauty go arial go bell go snow white go!!=) and go princess ashley that’s my sister her name is ashley do you like princesses to dady ? you momy? You ashley ? =)!!!!! =) and dady I like sleeping beauty=)! Love zoe =)=)=)123=)abc =)=)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’fun’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;love;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Last night I was talking on the phone to one of my best friends, Dr. Murphy. He is part father, part mentor and part friend to Andy and I. In college he taught us Intellectual Heritage, and we have been close ever since. He was there when Andy and I got married, and he was the first person I called when each of our girls were born. Through thick and thin, he has been there. I love him so much.
Andy and his sister got to see Dr. Murphy on their drive to Colorado two and a half years ago, but I haven't seen him in even longer. Last night he asked if I had any pictures of myself online, and I realized that I always post photos of the girls, not me. So today I asked Zoe to take a picture of me, and here it is :-)
In other news, I am busy working on my next cookbook, even on weekends. It seems when you love what you do, it's very hard to stop "working." ;-) This is a photo of a cake and glaze for the next Spunky cookbook. I took it to a baby blessing a week ago, and it got rave reviews, even from half of the crowd who are not on any type of restricted diet. Yay!
Now to have a glass of wine and watch some 30Rock with my love.
I don't know what the weather was like while we were sick all last week, but the past few days since we've been better have been phenomenal. We have been eating lunch and dinner out on the porch.
Also, I gave the girls new haircuts, that I think look pretty good considering I'm not a professional =) I know this last one isn't a great picture, I just included it so I could show you how I stacked Ashley's hair in the back. It gets really knotted back there, so this is perfect for her. Well, it may snow tomorrow—that's Colorado for you—short sleeves & flip-flops one day, snowing the next. I absolutely love it =)
Andy and his sister got to see Dr. Murphy on their drive to Colorado two and a half years ago, but I haven't seen him in even longer. Last night he asked if I had any pictures of myself online, and I realized that I always post photos of the girls, not me. So today I asked Zoe to take a picture of me, and here it is :-)
In other news, I am busy working on my next cookbook, even on weekends. It seems when you love what you do, it's very hard to stop "working." ;-) This is a photo of a cake and glaze for the next Spunky cookbook. I took it to a baby blessing a week ago, and it got rave reviews, even from half of the crowd who are not on any type of restricted diet. Yay!
Also, I gave the girls new haircuts, that I think look pretty good considering I'm not a professional =)
I know this last one isn't a great picture, I just included it so I could show you how I stacked Ashley's hair in the back. It gets really knotted back there, so this is perfect for her.
Well, it may snow tomorrow—that's Colorado for you—short sleeves & flip-flops one day, snowing the next. I absolutely love it =)
