Cousins

Hope's cousin Susanna:  They are only 2 months apart in age and only live 2 exits from us on the bypass.  You  would think we saw them all the time.  But, we just don't do a very good job at getting the girls together.  Maglinger events and softball games bring us together fairly often but just to get the girls together to play needs to be a bigger priority.  So, we had Susanna over to play a week or so ago and it went great.  Susanna's mom returned the favor this week and Hope was so excited to go and cried to leave.  See, we need to do this more!

Here they are "crafting."  This is one of Hope's favorite things to do.  We have a whole cabinet of craft supplies and now that school supplies are on sale, I'm having to restrain myself not to continue to stock up on 25 cent boxes of crayons and 40 cent bottles of Elmer's.  Hope is excited about the haircut that she is sure all girls who go to school get to have, but I am most excited about the school supply shopping trip!  (we still have a few years to wait!)

Hope was surprisingly okay with sharing her art supplies.  I was a bit surprised.  We are still working on that whole sharing thing.  As the afternoon went on, sharing became a little more challenging, but we started off great!

We did markers, paint pens, stickers, dot dobbers, glue and paint.  When the paint came out, my camera went away so no pictures of that.  It's cute how differently children do their art.  Hope paints all in one spot and mixes colors on top of each other basically until the paper tears from being wet. Susanna paints one line of each color and doesn't even let her colors touch each other. 



We played lots of kitchen.  The special for the day was plastic Easter eggs. 



There was also a variety show filled with lots of dancing and singing.  Look how much taller Susanna is than Hope!  Hope is so short! How did this happen?  Her 6'4 dad and 5'8 mother are scratching our heads!