special craft

Emma and I had this conversation the other day right after Macie fell asleep:

E: Mom, can you make me a craft?
L: Sure, honey
E: A condor?
L: What?
E: A condor.
L: Like the bird? What?
E: You know, a conder to save the baby jaguar that is stuck up in the tree. Can you make that craft with me?

I love how right now she is sure I can make or do anything. No pressure to make this craft, right?

Oh what do you do...

... when your two-year old gets an enormous pixie stick for halloween? She thought for sure she needed to eat it. I didn't think so, so we comprimised. I put it in a silicone muffin liner, chopped up an apple, and she had 'dip.' Thankfully, she gave up on the dip and just went for the apple.

{trick or treat}

This year I made their costumes again, and "Macie Moo" was a cow and Emma, who has a lamb lovie, was a lamb. She looked a little more like a bunny, but whatever. I am pretty sure I cut the ears from the wrong pattern piece. Because I had to work, we just hit our ward's trunk-or-treat (the hospital and church are right next to each other, you can see both in this picture) and I was able to come outside and walk around with them. Here they are with Daddy. Thanks for coming honey! And Grandma Jane! And Doug!

Crafty fun

Emma has asked to do a craft every day this week... so here is what we did!

{step one... give Macie Nick's iPhone to watch Diego on. Now we have 22 minutes to craft!}

{Spiders in webs}

... notice that we had to do a daddy, a mommy, a macie, and an emma...

{Scarecrow mommy}

... later that day we had to make babies...
{Color patterns}
... we have a ways to go on this one - she just cares about the color and not the shape...

{construction paper pumpkin}
... again, we ended up with babies later in the day...

(maybe I should plan on this at the beginning of the craft?)

{tweezer game}
She LOVES this one! I had never had her work with tweezers before, and she picked up on it quickly and asks to play lots.

hey, mom

Hey, mom... you don't need to worry about my breakfast today. I'll just eat Daddy's chili he left out last night. Thanks anyway.

Cheese!