Sasha's Workbook

We recently discovered the girls enjoy doing workbooks so we bought a couple to pass the time while waiting to pick Malia up from school. Going over Sasha's with her we were working on a couple pages of "which one is different" and when we came to this one Sasha said "Lizards are not water animals" I thought "why not?" Great out of the box thinking there, right?


Then we came to this one where there is a dog looking very much out place with three winged animals, but when I ask which is different she circles the duck and tells me "Ducks live in water, the other animals live on land" <3 I am just loving her thought process on these!

My New Lens

I've been dying for a chance to upload pictures from my new lens. I've been so crazy busy.

I took some on film and I don't have them processed yet... and I shot some in the back yard while the kids were just playing. I'll post a couple here. I've resized them for web but left them otherwise- just how they came. LOVE this lens. I can be a mile away and still be right up on them!

This is one of the first pictures I took. Can't you just feel that tree?


Eliana is much more in to playing than pictures these days. haha.


Sasha on the other hand has been a bit of a ham, which is out of character for her.

If I Were The President...

A little conversation from the car today.

Eliana: mom, how do guns work?
Mom: gives simple explanation of function
Eliana-Mom, if I were the president... I would make no guns allowed in the world
Sasha- Mom, if I were president... I would have a gun to protect myself
They discuss these possibilities for a few minutes, Eliana telling her that if she didn't take all the guns out of the country than she really couldn't be protected.
So I asked them how they felt about guns used to hunt animals for food (remember, Eliana is a strict vegetarian, and Sasha is not)
Sasha: they can just buy meat at the store!
Eliana: I would let them hunt animals, they could get a special piece of paper from me that only I could sign. It would let them hunt animals.
mom: What else would you do if you were president?
Eliana: *pause*
I would tell them, in that other country, that they should let people help the other people who live there (referring to something she overheard on NPR today about Sudan)
*pause*
Nobody could cut down trees, that way we can all breathe better and for longer.
*pause*
I think people should have to pay no bills. And NOT get their stuff taken away.
*pause
And mom, I would make everyone take a nap before going to their friend's house. Because, mom, I was really tired at Ivy's party. That is how I thought of that"

The conversation then evolved in to parties... but I thought it was so cute. From the deep thinking minds of 4-6 year olds.

The right to freedom, equality and naps for all!

Funny Conversation

Eliana, in her 'i'm telling the funniest joke in the world' voice: "Let's just have a Dad and give our mom away"
Malia: "ANA! but then we can't ever have PIZZA!"
Eliana: "Yeah, but Dad buys us peeps and other food with COLORS!"