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Jan 6 2012

Father Christmas Letter 2011

Apologies on the delay of this post…I am catching up on the whirlwind that was December.

 

Back in October madame wrote a letter to Father Christmas.  She drew her wishes in her letter, and asked me to add subtitles just to make it crystal clear.

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She very carefully wrote the name on the envelope, but got a bit tired after writing so small and running out of space, so I helped a bit and added the north pole.

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Here is the response she got…

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Lovely drawing of Father Christmas and the reindeer…

 

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Here is the postmark from Santa’s post office, and the stamp…

 

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The letter was sealed with sealing wax…we have been thinking about getting our own sealing wax ever since we saw it.

She paid careful attention to his recommendation about an early bedtime on Xmas eve, she was in bed and asleep by 6:30 p.m.!

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Did she get what she wanted? She did get a toy cat in her stocking, and was very pleased. Thank you Father Christmas!

 

 

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Nov 19 2011

A Drawing Explained

The artist explaining one of her drawings on the chalkboard. We were taking pictures of each drawing before she erased it, and I took a quick video of her explaining all the details that pop up in her artwork. How quickly her style changes and evolves!

 

She mentions Wubie’s Ed Emberley book in this drawing (she has several of my old E.E. books)…the books have exponentially expanded her drawing abilities, and given her a lot of confidence to try drawing new things.

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Oct 31 2011

Father Christmas letters

giggling in her sleep (heard from the other room)

‘Tis the season again for letters to Father Christmas. Last year our little girl got a letter in the mail in response to her letter:
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This year’s letter to F. C. has been written, wonder if we will get a reply.

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Apr 15 2010

Lucy’s Story

One of the things we like to do with Lucy is make up stories. Not a day goes by where Jill isn’t improvising a tale for Lucy, and just about all of the stories are based on Lucy’s ideas. “Tell me a story about…Wubie’s food bowl on the ceiling!” Lucy will say, and Jill will dutifully start telling the story.

Another thing we like to do is illustrate Lucy’s ideas. We’ll gather in front of Lucy’s easel and she’ll start shouting out ideas like “We’re at the beach!” or “Wubert is in trouble with bumblebees!” As she does this, we’ll scribble frantically with crayons, hopelessly trying to keep up with our little girl’s imagination. Almost all of Lucy’s stories star Wubert, who usually plays multiple roles in each story. He’s also usually in some type of trouble.

Here’s one of Lucy’s stories…

“Doo is having a picnic at the beach with Wubert. They have a bucket and a shovel. They have cake. Wubert goes in the water (there are fish!) and Doo has to save him. Wubert’s sleeping. I’m tickling Wubert. I am walking with Wubert on a hill. I’m first. It’s really sunny, and there’s cake.”

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Feb 15 2010

Valentine’s Day

We took a few pics on Valentine’s Day. Here are a few of ‘em…

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Here’s a pic of Lucy and I with some cool cards she made with her mom. It looks like some bed-head made it into this pic!

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Here’s a pic of us playing Lucy’s current favorite game. Wubie always pops up whenever we bust out the board games. Also, a close-up of a Valentine’s Day card.

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Feeling inspired, Lucy ran up to her easel and drew “Mommy Holding a Valentine.” She was very proud of it. Her style is changing so much as she grows up, getting much more representational.

Above you can also see how Wubert got “volunteered” for our newspaper pirate hat show.

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More drawing, along with a visit with Gma Vita (where we found some time to watch a bit of Pawn Stars.) If you look close, you can see that Gma is holding her own card.

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More hat pics.

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