A Peek at the Poulsens

What the house looked like when I walked in......yiiiikes Life, lately, has been full of: drawing creativity outings with PopPop rain/thunderstorms church meetings playing movies "Mama, look! It's Mickey Mouse!"  Max and I had a good long laugh about the next series of pictures. Natalie asked me to draw Ariel, so I drew this from memory: I showed Natalie and she said, "Um, I don't like the face. Make it better." So I looked up a picture for reference and tried again: I thought my second attempt was admirable, for someone who can't draw to save her life! Then I asked Natalie to draw Max:  She looked at her drawing, thought about it for a minute, and then finished it off like this, saying "it's his beard!": I think it's awesome that she is getting more interested in drawing. The other day she wanted to do science experiments and had this idea to draw the experiments on paper and then pass them out d...

At the library last week I read a book called "Rufus the Writer" about a boy who decides to sell stories instead of lemonade. I didn't think Natalie was really paying attention, but later that day she asked if she could make her own "story stand" and I was too charmed to think of saying no! She put on a fancy dress (since Rufus dressed up for his stand) and got right to work practicing her story-writing. She decided she could draw the pictures and I could write the words.  We put this sign on her table. She said it was her looking at the clouds on a sunny day. Isn't she SO DARLING!? ready for business! check the piggy bank   Unfortunately we put this on in such short notice that none of our friends could come, but luckily my parents were already planning on coming for dinner so they were treated to stories. People on facebook made requests too, and Natalie was happy to oblige! For Jill, who is expecting her second girl: For Aly, who wante...

My sheep have been shorn! Their hair was LONGGG, especially Stockton's. He hates  getting his hair cut so we let it go for as long as we could but it was finally just too much so Austin buzzed it as fast as possible while I held Stockty and then he recovered on the couch with some cozies and candy. Jack doesn't freak out, but he gets very still and sullen, like he resents the whole situation but hopes it will go faster if he just sits there and takes it quietly. don't they have beautiful blue eyes?  Jack checking out the clippers to give his approval  Stockton left about 50 of these types of pictures on my phone haha I think the boys look very handsome with their shorter hair, although I keep doing double-takes each time I haven't seen them in a while like WOAH what happened!? It's also harder to tell them apart because from above or behind they look very similar. Before:  ...you can't really tell his hair is long but isn...