The View From Our Dinner Table: March 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Seussical - Circus-y weekend!

Saturday afternoon we took all our favorite Whos to Ephrata to see Seussical Jr. It was an abbreviated performance of Seussical put on by a cast of kids! There was the Cat, and Horton, and that silly Mayzie too. We loved it! Especially when they slipped in silly Seuss references to the Circus McGerkus, the Sneetches and even Mulberry Street! It was Natalie's first staged show and she did great!

Then on Sunday we were off to Harrisburg to join the rest of the Blauch family for the CIRCUS!

Natalie showing Aunt Crickett the wikistix

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

unexpected hair cut

Mommy came home to find Daddy making dinner... and Natalie? She come out of a bedroom with scissors in one hand, and a blond curly lock in the other.

For the record, she said she was doing it to make her hair long. She gets long/short and hot/cold confused sometimes so we think she meant short. Later on though she said something about not wanting her curly hair anymore. :( sniff sniff

We're probably going to have to take her in for an all around cut. If we just evened the right side with the left she'd end up with a mullet!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Beautiful Weekend!

Mommy took the kiddos tot the park for some morning fun while Daddy worked on stuff at the house.

In development news... Natalie rode the big kid swings for the first time!

... and Jillian is *just about* getting the hang of pumping her legs to swing herself

Here's what Daddy was working on... Digging up the area between the house and the hot tub, adding drainage and running water and electric to the other side of hot tub. Whew! He's our rock star handyman!

Later Mommy and the girls planted our seeds. Mostly flowers this year and some herbs.

Jillian's truly adorable markers. She drew little pictures of the plant on them!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Jilly art

When our mornings go well and we get to school a little early, Mommy will take Jill's backpack to her classroom for her so she doesn't have to bother with it during the opening prayer service. Often times Mommy will take advantage of this to hide little notes for Jill to find during the day... in her pencil case, a workbook, etc. (Much like Mommy used to leave for Daddy when they played hockey together at school!)

So on Tuesday Mommy was rummaging through her quiet time notebook and stumbled upon this page that made her beam and get teary all at once!

Mommy helped out in art class again this week and the kids made drawings of sock monkeys. Again, Jillian's was one of the very best in the class! She drew the monkey herself, used paste and 'tiled' tissue paper (the blue) for the dress and then painted everything that is pink and white. She did fabulous!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Such a beautiful day, the kids couldn't wait to get home and play outside! Jillian insisted I drop her off at home with Daddy before picking up Natalie so as not to spend even another 15 minutes cooped up! :)

Green Dinner 2010:

cucumbers, kiwi, pears, celery, honeydew, peas, lima beans, lettuce, pesto and fettuccine

(noodles were supposed to be dyed green. FYI: Wilton cake gels don't dye pasta well!)

our little leprechaun!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

a visit to Carlisle

We went to visit Great Grandma, Uncle Danny, Aunt Crickett, Tyler, Connor and Abby... collectively known as the Carlisle branch of the Blauch family!

Aunt Crickett pulled out some fun crafts. Natalie needed some help, so Tyler and Danny did some manly work, building a foam castle with a itty bitty glue gun.