Renaissance- A new birth, or revival.

Saturday a friend and I took Ella to the Renaissance Fair. The two current sickies stayed home watching movies and napping.

Here is my brave girl on the back of a pony for the very first time. She is scared to death but very focused and intense in what she is doing.

The spontaneous bloody nose came a minute later.

The woman who painted her arm somehow talked her in to allowing a bit of decoration on her face as well.

It was so good to reconnect with my eldest and get some one on one time..."just you and me, mommy...just you and me"...

Kanapaha Botanical Gardens

Wednesday for us was a beautiful Florida day at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.

ready to go!

little girls

E in the bananas

learning to slow down

Recently Ella has shown a lot of interest in learning how to write so I took a trip with one very excited 3 year old to our local teacher supply store. Together we picked out a lined dry erase board and a rubber finger grip to teach her how to hold the marker. I think we both had visions of her writing novels by Thanksgiving!


Almost every day during Vi Baby's nap, we sit down and have "school". Very excited, Ella would get her board and tell me which letters she wanted to learn. I'd write one for her and then it was her turn to trace mine and every.single.time. she would throw her arms up and cry out "SEE, I CAN'T DO IT!"... and there was no convincing her otherwise. It didn't take long for me to realize this was not going to work for her.

So, I talked with a few friends and one idea really stood out..."try letting her draw the letters in sand with her fingers".

And so we did....

                             ...meet out homemade writing sand box!

SUCCESS!

this is one serious 'A'!