Lemonade Stand

We had a lemonade stand before our vacation...it's time for another one, as it's supposed to get pretty hot next week. We did do a little false advertising...it was not fresh-squeezed....but oh well! Annabelle had fun yelling at the cars. We only had a few people stop (two of them being Nana and Pudge), but they had fun serving each other!

Life with Ollie

Square-foot Garden-pt. 3

We've been enjoying Sophie's salad, Anna's baby carrots, Stephen's squash and my onions and swiss chard. (We each had our own beds..) We planted wildflower seeds in a big pot on our deck and the little herb pot on the table is from our house-swapping friends....=)

Anna wanted to plant broccoli and even though it was too late to plant it, we thought we'd try anyway and see if we could somehow defy nature and have a nice head of broccoli in the heat of summer....well, we didn't succeed in that, BUT we did succeed in attracting caterpillars....We now have at least five chrysalis in our little butterfly cage....the girls and I are way more excited about this than broccoli!

More of Anna's Art

The idea of posting photos and stories from our vacation is too overwhelming right now...so I am going to post some of Anna's latest drawings...the first two are her roosters, which I'm particularly found of, then we have a couple of ballerinas and a dancer with a streamer. The last one is an exercise she wanted to do. We've done a few exercises from the book Drawing with Children where she copies designs that are in little boxes. She asked for me to draw flowers in boxes for her to copy...Anna's flowers are on the bottom...the ones that are more artistic and interesting looking...=)