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Isaiah got his hair cut last weekend. Not a happy time for him, despite the sucker.

 The ever-fashionable Zoe!

And speaking of fashion, she did something amazing yesterday. She had two pair of socks that had holes in them (she wears out socks like crazy!). In the morning I said we could throw them away and she said, "use for baby." Great. Yesterday morning she scrubbed them with soap by hand, rinsed them and dried them on the towel rack. After lunch she finished drying them with my hair dryer. Shen then asked for my sewing kit. While I was blogging during rest time, she CUT. AND. SEWED. BARBIE. CLOTHES. OUT. OF. HER. SOCKS. WHAT?!?!?!?!? I seriously about fell over when I saw what she did. 

Because here's the deal . . . I stitched up a tear in her barbie's dress in her presence once. I showed her how to thread a needle and tie a knot a the end of the thread. And then as I was sewing it I was thinking, "I should really be showing her how to do this. This would be a great training opportunity." But, I didn't! 

 I asked her yesterday if she learned how to do this in C and she looked at me like I was crazy. She just  figured it out on her own - something she has had to do a lot of in her life. This last picture below is of the back sides. I was trying to show that not only did she sew all the way down the back of the dresses, on all but one of the four outfits, she sewed the seam on the INSIDE. Even on the shorts she cut and sewed for the boy doll. 

There is some serious brilliance inside of that girl. 

 The boys have been doing a lot of driving in the basement this week. Zoe has fun pushing and swinging them around in their cars, too. Today we took their tricycles to the basement and they did all kinds of fun things, including taping little cars to their trikes . . . while I was sitting on the steps with Claire, putting extensions in her hair.

 A photo courtesy of Zoe. How I love Isaiah's eyes.

 Just a typical day in the play room.

Bath pictures are always my favorite!