11.28.2009

Mini Christmas tree & our giant

We have just begun setting up some Christmas decorations this weekend and Melissa has been very excited to set up our 3' fiber optic tree... and most importantly get her picture taken with it (as she has the last three years: 2008, 2007 & 2006).

Kinda of an illusion with the mini tree & the wall rail... makes her look like a giant!

11.25.2009

Dino Dig

This morning Melissa's preschool when on a paleontologist adventure as they are studying dinosaurs this month. They walked to a local student's backyard where various bones were buried for the kids to dig up, and then later take back to their class to clean & put back together.

The wet rope walk...
There were "clues" along the way... dinosaur tracks!
Digging for bones...
One of many bones Melissa uncovered!

11.23.2009

Art

Melissa has become very interested in writing & drawing since preschool has started again. It has been fun to watch her art progress into what it is today.

Here is a picture of herself (bottom left) out trick-or-treating, (house bottom right) thinking of me at home with a chair. There seems to be some sort of snake on the ground in front of her.
Here is a picture of Melissa gardening, planting a seed. She says that is the house behind her, where I am looking for clippers for the tall plants in front of her.

This is another picture of Melissa gardening, this time planting sunflower seeds with Pepper (our cat).

11.11.2009

Costume Day at Dance Class

A few days before Halloween, Melissa's dance class had costume day.

Doing their warm-up rounds with the magical wands...

The choo-choo train...
Individual technique development...
Keeping her knee high...
Class photo (a couple of girls were missing this day)
Silly photo!

11.04.2009

Boo Shoot

On Halloween Melissa had her photos taken in costume by Revival Arts Studio.





11.01.2009

Halloween

Yesterday was a much anticipated day!

Nana & Pop came by with a bag of goodies for Melissa... a very abundant bag of loot! Here she is examining item by item with great responses for each favorite :)
Sitting (at times rolling) in the pile of goodies...
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As dusk settled in, we were joined by some friends to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. One of our first stops was Kim's house, where Melissa (Munchkin as he calls her) was treated to a special bag of candy!

Riley (the cow), Kiera (Snow White) and Melissa (the cat) on the move...
Melissa & Kiera certainly had evolved from years past, they were ahead of the pack, running from door to door...
I had to stop them from time to time for photo-ops to let the littler ones catch up...
It didn't take too long for Chase to see what the girls were up to, and he did his best to keep up with them...
Batman and a tuckered "Robina"... she had had enough candy pimping!
Back home the kids dumped out their loot, and did a little sampling!