Art

Nora Lee has been spending a lot of time drawing all of a sudden. As of last week she began spending hours and hours in her room listening to books on CD and drawing. The first day she listened to the entire novel of The Wizard of Oz and got about halfway through again the next day. I immediately went to the library to stock up! She is currently listening to the Little House in the Big Woods series, the Charlie Bone series, and Charlotte's Web.

Many of her pictures are of people with long dresses and lots of circles or shapes on the dress. This picture reminded Matt of a Gustav Klimt piece.





Wonder Woman

Potions

Last night Nora Lee was having trouble falling asleep because she was afraid. At one point she began crying and calling for me after being positive that one of her dolls was turning its head and staring at her again and again. She told me that she asked the doll to stop and it wouldn't. She said she wanted to remove her imagination and asked if we could please do a spell. I told her we could do some magic in the morning that would keep the good parts of her imagination and get rid of the bad parts. I removed the doll from her room and comforted her back to sleep.

This morning she got up and put on her witch attire. She happily did her spells and in the process, accidentally dyed her hands bright pink. I suspect it will take days for her hands to return to a normal color.

Halloween

Halloween Park Day

Wednesdays are our homeschool park days and this last Wednesday we celebrated Halloween. Some of us adults built a haunted house and the kids got to decorate it. There were games such as eat the doughnut off the line, a scavenger hunt, and trick-or-treating.

Jealous?

Don't you wish you had my bathroom designer?

The Getty Museum

Nora Lee and I visited the Getty museum today with our friends Amy and Auriella. The museum had created a fun game where kids can solve a mystery by finding the picture in the exhibits. For example, we would see a bird and were told which room to look in and then the kids could find where the bird was in one of the pieces of art. This included paintings, sculpture and wood pieces.

The Getty has a stunning garden as well. This is my favorite part! As the season turns to fall, this was reflected in the changing colors of the leaves. Its very mild here in LA but we get a little of that :-)







Me and my shadow














Hide-and-seek