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Things are going far better in the paci department than I dared hope they would.  Brooke is taking this pretty well.  There have been a few nights where it’s taken her close to an hour to fall asleep, but she hasn’t been hysterically crying; she mostly just whimpers and hollers at us.

Now when I give Brooke her paci she looks at it, sees if the end is snipped, and since it is, she says, “Ew!”  Once she even handed back the paci when I gave it to her.  I guess soon we’ll see if she wants to throw them away and we’ll be rid of them once and for all.

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Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

3 Comments

  1. Jessica
    December 19, 2008 @ 11:38 am

    You are so brave! How funny that she is losing interest now that her paci is “broken.” I have a feeling it won’t be so easy when we take Blake’s binki away.

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  2. Coleen
    December 19, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

    Thanks for the paci update, I’ve been wondering how she has adjusted to not having it anymore. I guess there is an upside to Ethan never taking a binki even though we tried about ten different kinds. Brooke sure is a cutie.

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  3. emily
    December 20, 2008 @ 11:29 pm

    I have been M.I.A. in the commenting department for the past couple of months! I know you have missed me 🙂 I have to dang many cousins and i get overwhelmed…but I have seen each of your wonderful posts…I subscribe to you on google reader, you know! And I am always happy to see more of you and that cute Brooke. I think she and my Rebecca would have a fun time playing together one of these days…

    VERY BRAVE to get rid of the binkie! It’s so nice having that one thing which will always calm them down….Rebecca replaced her bink with animals. You know that white bear Brooke is holding? Rebecca has that one too! I think we got it from JUDY at our double shower. Cool. Well, that bear is the one she sleeps with it and she only gets it at night. It kind of replaced her bink.

    well, good luck! WE are having such bad sleeping issues with Rebecca right now, ever since we got back from Germany. I am so frustrated, I think i might re-introduce the bink! hehehe

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