Picture of the Day

s secret note
When Maggie says ‘this’ it sounds like ‘dis’ and she started to write ‘you’ on the second line it looks like, but then got carried away with ‘love your’. Either way, she was very clear about what she wrote when she ‘got the note from the mailman’ and so, I wanted to make note of that.

We hav quite a few notes in this series because we had ‘quite the mystery to solve’ about who the secret admirer was. This one, however, was my favorite, because of the ending of “Maggie did not give this to you”.  A few nights ago, Mags kept shutting herself in her room telling us she had something important to do and then would appear, ‘after seeing the mailman,’ with some notes for us. I love her invented spelling and how she isn’t afraid to try the big words. We have a story that she wrote at school that is about as funny as this. She still loves to draw, but her understanding of language has exploded in the last couple months and we’re finding her writing everywhere. Three cheers for confident writers and lovers of the written word!!!

 

Picture of the Day: Pumpkin Farm

pumpkin farm maggie and audreyLast weekend we went to a farm with the Merks and spent the day enjoying al the different activities. Audrey got a candy corn painted on her face and Maggie got to pick out pumpkins for all of us. It was a fun way to spend half a day and we played our cards right because the rest of the PNW was watching the Seahawks game while we were at the farm, so we had a calm time before it got crowded. Score one for not having cable, I guess.