January

Happy New Year!  As I'm sure you've noticed already "outside" is a common theme for my posts and January 2020 is no exception!  We started working in the garden to prepare it for planting soon.  Garden beds make great sand boxes too! Leonie on the left.

 

Playing in the kiwi water rings is also a fun game.  Shere Khan enjoys accompanying us into the garden as well.

 

One day Elsie decided to buckle Ellie her elephant into her high chair.  She then fixed her a plate for breakfast!

 

Elsie also had fun with some used pieces of tape one morning.

 

While dinner is cooking we usually play outside and wait for daddy to come home.  The girls love to meet him at the end of the driveway and will run after him as he drives in.

 

Playing in leaves never gets old!  Elsie in pink.

 

On rainy or chilly days we spend time playing inside and making art.  Both girls are getting good at circles and learning to make L's and E's.  Here's Leonie.

 

And Elsie.

 

Back outside in the sand.  We spend many hours in the driveway digging, piling, and drawing in the sand.

 

Shere Khan looks forward to us playing outside almost as much as the girls.  He's even starting to climb into laps when the girls are quiet.  Here he is with Leonie.

 

 

A silly photo of the girls I took one morning.  They can barely fit in a basket together now! Elsie on the left.

 

At the end of January we planted some snow peas in the garden.  The girls did a great job putting one seed in each hole.  Now they ask almost every day if the peas have grown yet!

 

Peanut gets lots of hugs whenever we visit him in the pasture as well.

 

 

Finally, a cute video of Leonie playing the harmonica while Elsie dances.