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Avery learns to write

// July 19th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Family

Lately, Avery’s future career of choice had changed from a firefighter to an artist.  More specifically a painting artist. Although she has phases of wanting to be a marker artist too.  We’ve been really working with her on learning the alphabet.  She can sing the alphabet song now pretty well, and she can recognize a bunch of them if she sees them.  

We’ve moved on to showing her how to write the letters.  We’ve found chalk to be the most fun for her to use, and she loves it.  We have an alphabet poster hanging on the wall in our play room, so we’ll reference that when we pick out a letter to draw.  We draw all the letters, but ‘A’ is our favorite because her name starts with that letter.  She’ll go up to the poster and look at the picture and try and figure out what letter it is.  Once she has it figured out, she’ll go back to her chalk table and practice drawing it.

The other day while she was being a marker artist, I was at work, and Christi was in the living room with Hannah when Avery came running in screaming “I drawed a letter! I drawed a letter  ’A’ !”.  Sure enough, she drew the letter A all by herself without any instruction. 

We are so proud!  She’s not even 3 yet (but will be in September) and we think she’s a genius.  The picture above is her showcasing her lasted marker artist creation.  

Saving Green by being ‘Green’

// July 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // Life

An article I read on Cookie has some great tips on saving money while living green.  Your kids model their conservation habits after yours, so when you make an effort, the whole family does.  The article included a great chart outlining things you can do to live eco-friendly while saving money at the same time.  These little changes don’t add up to much savings by themselves, but when you implement all of them you can have a nice little yearly savings account.

These six actions are ones that most of us probably do already, but it is nice to see what kind of sizable impact such simple choices can have. “And for those of us who haven’t tried them yet, putting these six ideas into practice may leave you feeling virtuous and just a bit thrifty, always a good combination.”

Click here to download a printable PDF of the chart.