Lincoln Logs, Legos, and Paint

Emma's waterfall. Emma is our little painter. Out of the two of the kids, she is the one that likes to draw, paint, and color.
Henry's spider. Henry has really started to get into painting with Emma and Mommy. He still asks me to paint pictures for him, but has really started to create his own little masterpieces. He's still our music man though. I think he'd choose music over painting any day:)
Yesterday's artwork. The two in the upper left-hand corner are some that I was commissioned to do.
The first pictures of the day. Emma was working on her jet plane painting and Henry was working on his dragon that breathes fire.
You can bet that Legos will be on the Christmas and Birthday wish lists this year. Henry has developed a passion for Legos. When we went to Disneyland in April, we stopped at the Lego store in downtown Disney and I think Henry would have been perfectly okay spending the entire time there. The kid loves to build with Legos! So this is his Lego city. Designed by Henry, for Henry.

Early morning snuggles with the pup.
Looking down on Henry's Lego city. His city comes complete with flower garden(upper right corner), a spider sculpture(right side middle), fountains (lower right side gray and black), parking spaces all around, several high towers, and regular and recycle trash bends(three round discs in the bottom center).
Making a silly face at Mommy.
Emma used Lincoln Logs to make "cameras". Not sure how she came up with that one, but here they are.
Henry and I constructed a garage for one of his cars. You would think that with two large boxes of Lincoln Logs we could have made a garage big enough for both the car and the hummer, but we didn't have enough of the bigger logs to make it happen.

Parks and Lincoln Logs

There's plenty of things to tell everyone about Emma and Henry and how much growing and changing they are doing at the moment, but I'm just doing a quick post tonight. I have to gather and organize my thoughts for the rest of the latest happenings.

Here are a couple of things that we have been up to. In the past couple of weeks we've been trying to get the kids outside as much as possible when the weather has permitted. We aren't buried in snow or anything, but we have had some rather chilly weather here in big Tex. Last weekend we went to a new park that we had never been to. It's a rather large setup. The largest playground/fort setup that I've seen anyway. The kids were in awe of the size of it, but that didn't stop them from running at full speed from the parking lot to the play area. Henry took to the fort right away. We only had to coax him a little bit to climb up on his own and start exploring. Emma on the other hand was hesitant. It was cold out that day and we hadn't originally planned on going to the park so Mommy(bad Mommy) didn't put coats on them. I think she was cold so her mind wasn't on playing. We only stayed for about 20 minutes, but I did get some good shots. Yesterday we walked down to the park down the street(very convenient) and played for a bit. I did get windbreakers on them, but the weather fooled me again. We nearly froze to death. It was a beautiful day, but the wind was bitter cold. And lastly, we've been building almost every day at home. We've had either their mega blocks out or Lincoln logs and have been building like crazy. So here are a few shot of what H and E have been up to.