Jason and Jen's Journey: Another Week in Pictures

Isaiah came to me again with his monkey, but this time wanted him to ride in his hood. Love his imagination. Not to mention how his smile melts my heart!

Zoe put her extensions into a form of pigtails herself and it was so cute. So was her outfit.

One day last week the kids had sardines for lunch. Fine. But, I kept smelling fish all afternoon. I could not figure out where it was coming from. Until I opened the storage container cabinet at snack time and found Zoe's left-over sardine in an open plastic container. That will do it! To her credit, I told her to put it in a plastic container after lunch. I just forgot about the fact that she doesn't necessarily know to put a lid on it and put it in the frig. Or maybe she does know and she did this on purpose. I have no idea!

Abram is posing near the sardine, showing off the big scrape he got on his chin from falling off the kitchen table bench. After he fell off the bench (that he stands on to listen to songs on my computer) THREE DAYS IN A ROW, he was officially banned from standing on it any longer!

Was it last Thursday when it snowed big, beautiful flakes? I can't keep my days straight. As soon as the snow started falling I heard Zoe yell, "Thank you God for snow!" Within minutes the girls were outside playing in it.

Happy dance.

Happy girls.

Zoe took tons of pictures of what she was playing with last Friday afternoon. I posted a few to get a glimpse into her little world . . . which is quite creative (using my cloth coaster from Thailand as blankets).

(I bought this set of four small plastic black dolls before the girls came home and I'm so glad I did. They are probably Zoe's favorite things to play with.)

I should have also taken pictures of her electrical engineering skills this past week. It started with her taking apart a toy to get rice out of it so it would work again (success!) and then two days later she found an old alarm clock downstairs that didn't work, took it apart and got it working again.

Seriously, this girl is amazing. Jason and I often marvel at the way she thinks so creatively, quickly, resourcefully. She is brilliant in practical, creative ways . . . quickly figuring out ways to meet needs that she sees or just be creative with what she has to work with.

And to top that off, I went to the play room late Friday afternoon expecting to corral the kids to help me clean it up and this is what I found (thanks to the 100+ pictures Zoe took that day I have pictures to show her hard work!).