Tuesday - Butterfly house and children's aquarium

They went on a field trip to the Butterfly House and Children's Aquarium at Fair Park.  Originally some families were going to the zoo and some to the butterfly house.  But it was raining so the zoo visit was cancelled.  This is Tatiana holding the hand of Willa who is also holding the hand of her brother Toby.  Tatiana looks so big and adult!   Part of that is that Willa is just starting to walk and is so small. 

After the Butterfly House Tatiana wanted to go to the Aquarium which is within sight.  Toby wanted to go also, so Scotland and Tatiana took Toby to the Aquarium while the rest of his family left.   We bought another booster seat so that when we drive other kids we don't need to borrow theirs.  Scotland said that the rain was nice to them.   Whenever they had to walk outdoors the rain stopped and then started up again when they got on the train.   I said, "So, you guys stayed dry"   Scotland said, "No, I stayed dry.   The got soaked playing in the puddles." 

Monday night

Tatiana fell asleep reading the Usbourne book Encyclopia of our world.   Under her is the cloud pillow which is an Elsa face that she recently got. 

Amazing daughter last weekend

Friday, after co-op, Toby. Brody, Frances, Donna, William and Piper came over to play.  They all played so cute together.  At one point they were playing 'Cops', which involves pretending to shoot people, then capturing them and taking them to 'prison' which is Tatiana's bedroom.  Donna was appointed 'Warden.'   I expect that Donna and whoever was her prisoner just played in there.  I'd been pleased that none of them wanted to be the criminal.  That is why they were playing Cops.  Not Cops and Robbers.   Then they started to play 'Math Teacher'.   Tatiana made a homework sheet of math problems.   She was proud of herself that all the answers were 100.   Then one of the kids asked if they were playing 'Math Teacher' why were there all these guns laying around?   Tatiana said, "In case there is a School Shooting"  The other kids thought that was reasonable, but I was floored.  Scotland and I talked about it later.   In the car, he'd deliberately stuck to music stations because the Florida School Shooting was ALL the talk radio was talking about.   But even the music stations talked about it a lot, with frequent updates. 

Saturday we went to the Cheerleading game.   We thought it was cute, that when she ran to the bathroom, about 3 kids followed.   They thought she was going to play.   They have one free period where they can play.   There are six six-minute periods.  Then Scotland and I took a nap that afternoon while she played quietly and nicely.   Ty came over in the evening and we went to dinner.   Tatiana is always so happy to see him.  Ty said something nice.  He said he was thinking that afternoon, "I am going to see my family"   We went to dinner, and then when we got back Ty's back hurt so he had to lay on the couch.  Tatiana was disappointed we couldn't play Splendor.  but, she brushed her teeth and laid down in bed wearing her dress and her beloved zebra print jacket.   She fell asleep reading the Dr. Seuss tongue twisters book.   We all went in to look at her. 

Sunday we went to church, then to the Family Games afternoon.   There were some little girls for Tatiana to play with.   We played a game as a family because she was shy.   Then Scotland was her wingman, and she played with the girls for awhile.  Ambre, the one that told me about it, played games with us.   I had a ton of fun.  Scotland said it was a good weekend for it since it was cold and rainy outside.  Then the girls and Ambre left so we played a couple of games as a family.   Then we went home and watched a little bit of Harry Potter 5 movie. 

Tribbles Game

Yesterday evening the family played a Tribble game.  It was lots of fun.   Tatiana and I had tried to play it once and I really didn't understand the instructions so we played it wrong and it wasn't any fun.  But yesterday afternoon Scotland read the rules (and understood them) and they played and had fun.   So, then I got to play with them when I got home. 
Tatiana and I have really really been enjoying the Harry Potter book.   We are on the end of book 5.  We read a bible story or two, then listen to an hour of Harry Potter.  Or maybe more if one hour would leave it at a cliff-hanger. 

AHG Craft Badge

This is Tatiana at AHG.   She is so cute.   They are doing a String Art project.  The nails are in a heart shape. 

Sunday Tatiana was making a pot holder using one of those plastic looms and colored rubber band things.   She was concentrating so hard. 

That first photo was taken after Tatiana was asleep.  She had been signing her valentinevalentine's.   The other two were fron the morning.  I wanted to take a photo of her cute outfit.   She pretended she was in a fashion shoot.

Tatiana went to a Tea Party yesterday.  After they ate they played cops and robbers.

Too cute.

Last night when Tatiana was to bed, Scotland and I were talking about how cute she was.  Then we heard her do this hacking throat clearing.   Which normally isn't cute, but in her adorable little girl voice it was sooo cute.  I just to laugh and laugh.