still here

For those reading this....yes we are still here and doing well. I can't believe a whole month has gone by. Katelyn and Lindsay are truly experiencing the joys of sisterhood these days --- they fight with each other what feels like all the time. And it's all over very important things like Barbie dolls, stuffed animals, who gets to choose the television show, who gets to have a playdate with a friend, etc. Which brings me to why I don't have time to blog - I can't keep up with my kids' social calendar. Last weekend, Katelyn slept at a friends' house Thursday night since there was not school Friday. Friday night went to a sleepover birthday party, then managed to get us to say yes to having friend over Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, Lindsay and I spent Saturday morning at her friend's house and on Sunday they each had a friend over. So we're keeping things a bit low-key this weekend in preparation for birthday season to start next week -- 4 birthday party invites for next Sat/Sun!! Really I'm very happy that the girls have lots of friends, but it's a bit much when they have more to do in a weekend than I do in a month!

Thankfully it's not all fighting. They did spend a few hours "smash painting" all by themselves in the kitchen. Katelyn did it in school and then she and Lindsay experimented at home. Smash painting led to finger-painting which yielded all of these beautiful pieces of art -- I didn't even mind that they were covered in paint since we ended up with some perfect handprints!

Here's Lindsay growing into the papercrafting hobby. She loves to cut out letters - especially her letters - (the ones in her name - she seems to think they're hers!) It looks like it won't be long and I will be able to have some long scrapbooking sessions with my 2 assistants - provided I make sure everyone has enough elbow room :)

And yes, I know my picture is quite blurry - the flash on my camera is broken, so I'm on a search for a new camera - any recomendations on compact cameras with lots of zoom capability?