Last night we put Brooke to bed. An hour later she woke up screaming. I ran into her room and saw she had thrown up all over. The vomit-fest continued all night long.
For the record, I’m totally blaming this on that stupid gumball.
It was time for the ward Christmas party and Rebecca asked me to take the pictures again this year.
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.
One application that doesn’t get enough use in our house is Photo Booth. Whenever it’s used raucous laughter reigns. I’ve included both the original picture and the Photo Boothed one. It’s up to you to figure out which one is real life…
March 9, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
AHHH!! I will be praying for you and Brooke today. 🙁 Dumb gumball. 🙁
March 9, 2010 @ 6:21 pm
Yuck. I’m so sorry! Hopefully it’s only the 24 hour yuck, instead of the lingering one. It sounds like you guys have had the winter we had last year. We’re just barely catching up on our sleep now. 🙂
March 9, 2010 @ 7:26 pm
I loved the gumball story by the way but I’m sorry Brooke is sick again. Hopefully you won’t come down with it too!
March 10, 2010 @ 10:16 am
I think we can only blame the gumball if you fall ill really soon–which, believe me, I would never wish on you!
Poor Brooke. She better get well before this weekend so Sarah and Jeff are not disappointed. We’ll have to see if Brooke sticks to Jeff like glue once again. After hearing this, though, I’m not sure it will please Jeff all that much to be stuck to a vomiting child.