Beans, Beads and Braids

We've been making lots of things in our household over the past few days. In the kitchen, we've made black bean soup, a roasted chicken, cookies, more cookies...



With snow on the ground, but apparently spring on our minds, we've made a lot of flower and bird art: Will did off-the-cuff work with beads, while Clara and June made LOTS of sharpee snowflakes. (Any art can become a snowflake when you fold it and apply the scissors.)


We made some special stuff at the pottery store (those pictures to come).


AND, we made fancy french braids and fancy fingernails to go on some fancy girls for the annual fancy father/daughter Valentines Dance. Though I've never been, it's one of my favorite events of the year.

Lately, however, I mostly want to MAKE my sweet baby's ear infections (and his complete aversion to a bed) go away.