a few things making our day special

It is this time of year that the creative juices flow, there is excitement in the air, and we enjoy the cool crisp autumn days as they pass into winter. a few special things that are making our day extra special:

1.  I just had a look at the photos from Leah's first costume party. She dressed as a wood fairy and we ventured outside to snap a few photos in the fall leaves.

Here is another while we were getting ideas for fairy houses:

2, We are in love with this book that arrived yesterday via Amazon.ca. We soon will be making thumbprints (aka Ed Emberley), collages, pattern painting, watercolouring...it's a bounty of ideas.

Here's a look at a few pages inside:

3, One of Leah's favourite stories right now is purple green and yellow by Robert Munsch about Brigid, who claims to need 100s of markers to make her creations on paper and elsewhere.

4. One of the most amazing things of the last few months has been the explosion of creativity and imagination I see in Leah. After months and months of scribbles, we finally evolved into figures and animals....I think it's a moment that many Moms of preschoolers secretly wait for with perhaps (I hate to admit it) a touch of impatience. We encourage and praise daily those incessant scribbles, but when a drawing comes along with recognizable features....it's a proud moment!

5. I came across the book the OK book and a video by Amy Krouse Rosenthal that I think is interesting and now it's on our wish list at the local library. "The book's hero is a little stick figure whose head is the O of OK, and whose arms and legs are the K. (Imagine the word OK tipped up on its side.) The scenery is similarly minimal: a black horizon line, a squiggly tree, some grass. I like to try a lot of different things, the OK figure says. I'm not great at all of them, but I enjoy them all the same. On each succeeding page, the stick figure turns in a series of OK performances, roasting a marshmallow, cutting a sandwich not really in half (I'm an OK sharer), and looking at the result of his fishing—a tangle of seaweed and a boot. One day, I'll grow up to be really excellent at something, OK says, while lying in bed. I don't know what it is yet... but I sure am having fun figuring it out." (Reed)

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[Dim Sum,Bagels,and Crawfish]

We are Amy Krouse Rosenthal fans, too. Check out her podcast on Land of Nod...fun to hear her reading some of her books and interacting with her kids. My daughter will be getting a copy of "Cookies" for her birthday...Amy's writing and Jane Dyer's illustrations are a great combination.