Another sleeping Sammy photo

Olivia's work

Olivia's poem:

As the unicorn shows her shadow

And the Fairygodgirl lowers her lasso.

The sun shines bright!

The flowers bloom.

And the little hummingbird flies his tune!

The cat's whiskers dangle down

The baby dog hides his frown

We had our mid-year conference with Olivia's teacher and were very happy to hear how well she is doing in class, what a helpful member of their community she is. A friend to all, is how Cami discribed her. She also has gone from kindergarten-level reading at the beginning of the year to end-of second grade level now. Olivia told all of us she wants to learn and spell new and big words. I'm pretty proud of her. 

Here is a recent portrait of the family by Olivia: 

Sammy's Drawings

Sammy's portrait of Chris. Today he added glasses after weeks of just dots for eyes. The lines across the face are lips and mustache. I also love Sammy's floating guys pictures:

And his picture of himself and daddy, not to scale: