What better way to celebrate, than children’s artwork.  Isaac brought home the following from school: 

Posted on June 19th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Once again.  Here are some birthday cards the kids made for their other grandma.  I can say “other” because she never reads my blog.
Text (including random capitalization and punctuation errors):  Dear Grandma Bunny,
are you having a good Day!  It’s your BIRTHDAY!  Banana.  HAHA I made you read banana!  I mIss you
Love Isaac
Charlotte: [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Here’s his class picture for his school here in Washington: Also, he wrote me this letter at school one day.  At first I wondered who “Kathliny” was and then I realized that it was me.

Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Here are the cards my kids made for their Grandma Cochran.  I love children’s artwork, especially when they start drawing more detailed drawings.  It’s a unique expression of what’s inside their brains.
Here’s Isaac’s letter.  He struggles with writing, but he is getting better. Next is Charlotte’s.  Her card is my favorite because it’s the most [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2011 by Kathleen
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From Isaac: Isaac was originally going to write a chapter book about Grandpa’s birthday in which he surprised his grandfather by jumping out of the cake.
From Charlotte:
I wanted her to write her name on the back.  She refused to write it and said that if she wrote her name on the back then [...]

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here are some letters the kids wrote to their grandparents.  I had them in an envelope to send, but before I put them in the mailbox, we booked some flights for grandma and decided to just give them to her in person. Isaac was going to write a letter to each grandparent, but then he [...]

Posted on November 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte drew this picture in primary today: There’s something artistic about the picture to me.  She said it was a picture of Jesus feeding the people the fish and the loaves.  (Can you find Jesus?  He’s the one holding fish and loaves in his hand.)  She said they were at church and they were hungry [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole loves to color, but for some reason her favorite thing to color on is words.  This means that every-time I write her name on one of her drawings, she scribbles all over her name.  Here is an example of her Art:
While scribbling some of the red scribbles she kept saying “oh, no [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte:  I want to tell him something that I never telled him before.  I want to tell him grandpas have pianos.  That’s what I never said.
Me:  What do you think grandpa should do on his birthday?
Charlotte:  I think he should play his piano.
Me:  What else should he do?
Charlotte:  I think he should turn on his [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Kathleen
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This is a book that Isaac wanted to write.  After seeing the story that Charlotte wrote (posted previously), Isaac really wanted to make a book.  He became really impatient.  I told him I couldn’t help him until after Nicole was taking a nap and Ila was settled.  He had a hard time waiting, but eventually [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte is a creative little girl.  If you start making up a story, she’ll add to it.  Today I decided to see what she could create on her own.  I only helped her with prompts like “what would she do when she is a great-grandma?”  The sequence, ideas, and pictures all came from her.
Picture [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I realized awhile ago that Isaac thinks the defining characteristic of a hug is to have your cheeks touch.  So you can hug without using your arms.  I’ve noticed that sometimes when he has been asked to give someone a hug, he just lean towards them with his face.  He brought home this picture that [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte has missed all the little girls her age back in Utah.  In primary, there are no  girls in Isaac’s class and she’s the only girl in her class.  So the closest girl in age is in the class one year younger than her and ironically that girl’s name is also Charlotte.  If that wasn’t [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I had the kids make cards for their dad for father’s day.  Basically, we make a little book and I ask the kids what it should say and then they draw and I label.  Their books always make me laugh. To see the cards, click on the link below

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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The piggy is crazy things and tries to try to get people and tries to get paper and tries to do bad things and make bad decisions and tries to kill monsters and Ghosts and tries to break other paper and tries to break the rules and tries to do racing without it’s mommy [...]

Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Kathleen
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