Elise is 6!

Elise had a great birthday last week! Thanks to everyone for your well wishes, cards, gifts. She definitely feels loved :-)

Snow Fairy:

Queen and King of Rainbow Fairies:

Elise communicating with me after a misunderstanding between us:How cool that she can now write her words as well as say (and draw) them!

Thought I'd post a few projects that Elise has done lately. Of course, some involve Owen, too.

Creatures from the after-school clay class: (Elise - 3 birds, Owen, a septopus)The leaf pile (so far - it has much greater potential!) before going onto our garden:Owen's "Starry Night" from school:

And of course, a gratuitous sleeping kids picture.I'll miss having both of them cuddle with me all night. Amazingly, somehow both can manage to get their feet on me at the same time, even tho I am not the one in the middle. Talented, huh? Elise still comes in to cuddle us most nights, but Owen prefers space (a king bed is still not big enough for 4 of us at this age!), so this is special. Some day they won't want to do this anymore.

About those videos - I fixed some of them, but have decided it will take too much time to go back and fix them all. SO, if you want to see the older videos, email me and I will invite you to be a viewer on my youtube account, where you can see them all, plus many more.

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted any old pictures. Here are pics from Christmas 2005, and January 2006, Science Fair: