Lovin' The Seuss, Plus Some Interesting Girl Poses

Not a whole lot of interesting new things to report for this blog post. Life is going along busily but otherwise pretty smoothly. However, I noticed the camera was getting kind of full of cute pictures of the girls, so I thought I would share a few.

Right after getting home from our trip to San Diego, it was time to celebrate Read Across America Day  in school/preschool (where is was celebrated with various activities spread out through the week!). Coincidentally, this celebration of reading occurs on the birthday of one Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. All the more reason to celebrate, if we get to read a bunch of Dr. Seuss books in the bargain!

Lorelai dressed in her "whimsical best," for Dr. Seuss dress-up day at school. She looks "straight outta Whoville."

Like many families, we have several Dr. Seuss books on our bookshelves (not nearly enough, in my opinion!). Despite the current market being flooded with many wonderful children's books (written by many talented authors), I still feel that no one has ever really matched The Seuss. He had a killer combination of whimsy, creativity, energy, and subversive social messaging. That, combined with his prodigious lifetime output, makes him the gold standard in children's literature in my opinion.

My little "cats in hats"

So any holiday that involves Dr. Seuss is one I am happy to celebrate! Luckily, we managed to find a huge omnibus collection of twelve Seuss books at our local library. This has given us a lot of great additional reading in the last week or two! And besides Dr. Seuss, we managed to read a lot of books by other authors throughout the week-long celebration. My personal favorite activity was a "reading picnic" held by the school; I brought a blanket and snacks, sat out on the school green, and read books with all my kids in the warm late-winter sun. It was both relaxing and emotionally fulfilling!

Although I am an avid reader myself, I sometimes forget to take a little time and read to my kids to "infect" them with the same passion for books Nathan and I have. It has been refreshing to be reminded how fun it is to read out loud to my girls; this holiday has been great at getting me back in the "reading habit" with my family!

Now to segue into some non-book-related whimsy: a few cute, random pictures of our girls having fun over the last few weeks. I took Celeste and Aurora on a long walk around the lake last week, and they found all sorts of ways to goof off:

 

 

 

 Perhaps Dr. Seuss would have loved the images of cute little girls on turtles as much as I do (despite none of the turtles, to my knowledge, being named "Yertle").

Here's one more picture I loved:

Celeste wanted a "spa day." She recently watched an episode of the show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, in which some of the main characters visited a spa to relax (complete with towels, face masks, and cucumbers on the eyes). Celeste, being the incredibly feminine creature she is, wanted to try a spa day for herself...and as luck would have it, I had an extra cucumber in the fridge this weekend. She even spent the whole day at church bragging to her Primary teacher about how she would be going to a "spa" that night! Lorelai wanted to join in, too...it was fun to catch her doing "girly" stuff for once!

After laying around for a while, the girls ate their eye-cucumbers, and found them delicious! I suspect this will not be their last spa experience, though...experiences like this make me really excited to see them as teenagers!