Day 38 - February 7 - For the Girls

I am teaching myself to crochet, and it's a hobby that I enjoy a great deal. I'm very much a beginner, and have made a few scarves and now this blanket for Alyssa and Caroline. I have started crocheting little sparkly purple flowers (at Alyssa's request) to stitch onto the blanket to jazz it up a little. They love it, and I love the fact that they love it. I'm really proud of it!

Day 37 - Welcome Home

Welcome home to the palace after a hard day.

Day 36 - February 5 - Cheese!

One word is enough to sum up this photo. Cheeeeeeeese!

Day 35 - February 4 - Homework

Our big girl can read! At the age of 4, Alyssa knows how to sound out words and put the sounds together to make words. I'm not sure who is prouder - us or her :) Every week, on a Friday, Alyssa brings home her school bag with one or two books in. Listening to her read them to us is absolutely amazing. Reading is opening up a whole universe to her, right before our eyes. Our fervent hope is that her love of learning continues, and she becomes a bookworm like the two of us. As my Grannie used to say to me, "There's nothing like a good book." How right she was.

Day 34 - February 3 - Minion!

These little yellow fellows are characters in two of the girls' favourite films. The Despicable Me minions make them chuckle when they get up to mischief. I must admit, I'm rather partial to them as well.

Day 33 - February 2 - Say Cheese!

"Cheeeeeese!" Caroline often shouts this during the course of a day, as she busily points her toy camera at someone or something. I think we have another budding photographer!

Day 32 - February 1 - Interlocking

Month two, here I come! I am so happy and relieved to find that I am thinking photographically again, and that it has come back to me in a relatively short time. I find myself immersed in photography again, and enjoying it. The first month of the project has flown by, and I am not finding it a chore, nor am I stuck for ideas. I am, in short, BACK.

I got these coloured pencils a few weeks ago for £1. Alyssa and Caroline are very indignant that I won't allow them to be used for colouring....they just don't understand how I need them to retain their lovely, sharp points. I hope that one day, they will. Alyssa got her very first camera bag today, to house "her" Fuji bridge camera. To say she's excited is an understatement; it was difficult to get her to remove the bag from over her shoulder today. I hope the weather warms up soon so that the two of us can head out on a walk with our cameras. She finds it just too cold at the moment.

Looking forward to February!