Art Journal Wednesday: Project Four

So not all projects can be a success, right? Well, I thought the girls would really be into this next project, but I was wrong.

For the fourth project, I focused on the artwork of Seurat ("sir-rot"). He used pointillism to create his artworks, which is basically using a series of dots to fill in the work instead of using brush strokes or another technique. I always rememebered Seurat as "Seurat...dot". I showed the girls his most famous work:

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Then I showed them this lesser known work, because I thought it might be easier for them to draw a landscape of some kind.

The Seine and La Grande Jatte - Springtime

I had the girls draw a landscape. Anything they wanted. And then they were to fill in the landscape with dots. I didn't expect them to fill everything in leaving no white because I knew their attention span wouldn't last that long. But even with what they were doing, they got bored easily. Ella didn't finish hers (top).
They did a good job trying it, even if they didn't really like this project.

Lily Graduates (again!)

Lily had her Spring Sing on June 1st. She did great this year! Last year, you could tell she was a bit nervous. This year, she did all the motions and sang all the songs.



And Kellan was a perfect angel during the performance! He didn't make a peep!

They made these party hats, aren't they cute! They "graduate" every year at Lily's preschool. She actually has one more year to go before Kindergarten.


That's Lily with her teacher Ms. Debra. Lily's so excited that she's moving to the afternoon class this year with Ms. Debra. She really was a great teacher! And at least five of Lily's friends are moving to the same class.

And a couple party pics:


They had all these cute photos from the year hanging up and we all got a notebook at the end with the photos in it. Lily had a terrific year this past year and we are excited for her to continue with the same teacher next year!

Water Fun 2010

We eased into the water play this year. ;-) First, we got the Nemo sprinkler out, to test the waters so to speak.




The girls had the brilliant idea to find their goggles and put them on so the water wouldn't get in their eyes when they ran through the sprinkler. Not entirely fashionable, but all together practical.


Then we moved to trying out our rainbow pool from last summer. We thought it might have a leak in it, but we weren't sure so we put it up to check it out:

We did realize the rainbow pool was done for. So we purchased a new pool, which of course, is bigger and better than the rainbow pool. Hey, why not, right?

Here is Lily shooting water at Andrew's office window. One benefit to him working in the basement now. ;-)

Ella's water antics:



The best part of water fun for Mom? This:


Lily had a standing playdate with her friend from preschool Hannah during the school year. They would play every Wednesday afternoon and we alternated houses. Here are some cute photos from one of their playdates:

May Randomness

Both Andrew and I made it to Twins Games in May at the new stadium:


According to Lily, this is how one should dress when attending soccer games:


Ella was on the "Pumpkins" this spring. Her first time in the C Division for ages 6-8. She did awesome and soccer post is forthcoming. Kellan enjoyed being outside and watching the games.

We decided to have a picnic on the deck one night for dinner. Kellan lasted all of 2 minutes. The girls retreated to the house after about 15 minutes due to the presence of bees. And Andrew and I actually enjoyed about 15 minutes of just Holly & Andrew time to have a real conversation. Hmm...maybe we should have dinner on the deck more often. ;-)


Andrew, Kellan and I headed north for Memorial Weekend to Nisswa. We stayed in the golf suites at Grandview Lodge and had a wonderful relaxing weekend. We woke up one morning to see a Mama and Baby Deer out our window. It was so cute!

Kellan enjoyed going for many walks outside and decided to really hold his bottle unassisted for the first time.

Kellan's first time putting his toes in the sand. To channel Mikey from the old cereal commercials: He likes it! He really likes it!