Puppet show.

Sonja and Haven love books. We read a whole lot of books. And they love the library and are always excited to go, but there are some days when I'm super happy there are other things at the library besides books. On this particular day, if the girls hadn't had the opportunity to play with the puppet theatre, they would have been running and yelling through the stacks. For real; it wouldn't have been the first time.

My girls love each other, but they tend to argue often and I have to referee a lot. It's so tiring. So when they play together this well, I tend to step back altogether; I don't want to get in the middle of their fun and I want them to have a chance to work out any differences without constantly looking to me to solve things. In this case, I was more than happy to sit back and click away with my camera. I took over eighty photos in ten minutes; here are some of my favourites.

Photo essay: Tea party on the deck.

Orientation, part deux.

Sonja will be in preschool five days a week this year; four days of regular class and a French-Immersion prep class on Fridays. Being a French-Immersion kid myself, I'm very excited about this class. Turns out her teacher's name is Sonya. So great.

We had an orientation for Sonja's French class yesterday and although I think she's nervous about the whole learning-another-language thing, she was pretty impressed that her teacher and her share a name. 

Haven was a little clingy-slash-grumpy yesterday morning, so it was a bit of a (super hilarious) surprise when she suddenly started rolling around on the floor, singing and clutching wooden train tracks to her chest. I have no idea what that was all about but it was awesome.

Preschool begins full time Monday morning; yay, Sonja!

More farm time.

Haven, ringing up sales on the cash register.

Puzzles.

"I'm a little busy here... Can this wait?"

Pigtails. The first of many hairdos this year; need to keep Sonja's hair out of her eyes.

Basket of fun.

The beginning of the craziness.

Grabs the wooden train track and stars singing...

...and rolling...

...and rolling...

...and rolling some more.

"This is the best wooden train track EVER."

"Who is that kid rolling on the floor?? I don't know her..."