Little piano player

My little monkey

4 Monkeys!

Vivi loves wearing her monkey sweater and monkey backpack.

Helping Daddy open his birthday present.

Playing with Ally and Cole

Lila's 2nd birthday

This is my friend, Lila. Today is her 2nd Birthday

In the morning, I painted a card for her. Then we went to her party.

I played in the sensory tub full of ice and bottles.

It is a flower "bed," isn't it?

I played soccer, just like the big kids.

Happy Birthday Lila!

chalk spinner

I saw this chalk spinner online -
http://www.kodokids.com/spinners.html
and thought "Vivi needs one of those." So I took our lazy susan and painted with chalkboard paint... 

And now we have a chalk spinner for Vivi.

Mommy spins the chalk spinner and I hold the chalk down.

 Mommy needs to figure out how to put a motor on it now.

Masterpiece

Fun with tomatoes

Look at what I can do!

Tomatoes on my finger.

Sleepy baby.

And today, a monkey!

Vivi at the doctor's office in her monkey sweatshirt.

A day of art

In the morning, I painted pictures at home.

 Then we went to the I Madonnari, an Italian street painting (chalk) festival. There was a special section just for kids.

I wore my dragon costume. It didn't take me long to realize I could be helpful to all the kids who were drawing.

I helped this girl organize her chalk

I helped these kid draw

This little girl let me help her for a long time. She was drawing a stack of ice cream.

Downloads from phone...

Driving

Playing with magnets at school

Walking down stairs

Hammering

Ready for school. Let's go!

Blueberry picking

We went blueberry picking

I picked A LOT of blueberries

Most of them didn't make it to the pail

 Bulging blueberry cheeks. (the scab is from a somersault on concrete)

Blue or green blueberry? Which to eat?

My little dragon

 This is what happens when Vivi picks our her own clothes...

There's a dragon in the house!

Granny and the dragon

Music and messes

Look how much noise I can make!

I'll clean up the mess.

Eclipse

 Tonight the moon eclipsed 84% of the sun (as seen from Santa Barbara). Check out the eclipse images in the shadows (created when the spaces between the leaves of a tree act like pinholes). Vivi was more interested in all the dogs at the event than in any interesting shadows I pointed out.