Category: General

I again gave Isabel the camera to see what she saw through the screen. Enjoy!

The first photo is of Daddy playing the drums. Very blurry and dark, but that’s not her fault. We have no lights in the front room and without the flash, well, you’ll get a dark photo.

Dora and Boots on her umbrella handle. Blurry too.

The next day after school the weather was absolutely gorgeous and I let her have the camera again in hopes from some interesting photos…

Our little budding photographer.

She said she liked the clouds but somehow she got more of the fence.

This dandelion is a great clear shot!

Another dandelion. She’s always had a fascination with them. Clear shot too!

Another weed.

The shed concrete pad and another weed.

The next photo, she set it down and started collecting rocks. When I asked her why, she told me to wait…

Her rock face. I love that she took the time to actually create this and then take a photo of it. She was thinking through! Great photo!

She even got a photo of me! It’s great, nice and clear. Good job!

After the photo of me, she went back to taking photos of the clouds.

Wispy-gray cloud day. Great day for taking photos!

A few days ago, I gave Isabel a quick simple lesson on how our simple point and shot camera works. What buttons to push to take a photo. How she can then see the photo on the screen and how to get the camera back to photo taking mode. I kept the camera on auto and turned the flash off and then handed it over to her…

At first she didn’t seem to want to take photos but after a few minutes she took off and started clicking away at everything that caught her fancy. Enjoy!
(Keep in mind the camera isn’t the best at taking photos in low light. They come out fuzzy.)

The very first photo she takes…her thin crust homemade pepperoni and sausage pizza in the oven! Ha-ha!

This is a boundless, wordless book/puzzle from school.

Sight word flash cards. This photo and the one above are great shots, nice and clear!

Phonics alphabet box. A bit blurry.

Pattern practice paper. A bit blurry too.

Our arts and craft tablecloth. This one is great too, when it’s enlarged you can actually see dog hair and tiny dust particles.

The vacuum cleaner handle. This one is very blurry, she might have gotten to close or she was moving.

Nativity and her pumpkin from Preschool. Again a bit blurry.

Come Unto Me figurine. Blurry but it still turned out good.

She didn’t want to give up the camera so easily for dinner. She would have kept right on going. She took about 15 or 20 pictures but most of them were blurry. She took photos of Gino and I as well but they were blurry. I’ll have to let her do it again and see what appears…

After church was over Isabel came out of Sunday School and said her loose tooth was hurting. When she showed it to me, it looked puffy and bloody. I told her she must have hit it or wiggled it so much that she had pulled the skin that was still attached to the tooth causing it to bleed. Told her to leave it alone for now and it’ll come out when it’s ready…

As we headed down to the valley to the pumpkin patch, we took a wrong turn and ended up east of where we needed to be. So we stopped at McDonald’s and got some lunch before heading to the patch.

Now you see it…

While we were eating, I was trying not to laugh because her little tooth was moving like a swing! Back and forth! Back and forth! Back and forth; and then… She was eating her French fries when she got this weird terrified look on her face and I asked if she was alright. She said, she thought she lost her tooth. So Gino had her spit out everything in her mouth. Sure enough, her tiny tooth popped out!

Now you don’t!
(Sorry for the messy face, we were eating lunch)

This weekend must have been the weekend to stay at home and make homemade food and slime or gak.

I had found the recipe online several weeks ago and thought it would something fun for Isabel to experiment with…

We used 1 cup of liquid starch and 2 bottles (and a bit) of glue, which works out to be 1 cup also.

Stretching out!

Hand mold.

Mold.

More stretching.

Her snowman…in July!

She’s having to much fun!

Gak string.

New heights in stretching!

After playing with it for about an hour she spent the next hour covering her arms with it. What great fun we had with our slime or gak!

This morning Isabel helped me make a loaf of banana bread. She chopped the walnuts and dumped in all the ingredients into the mixing bowl. She even kept watch of the mixer as it mixed the ingredients.

From the moment we began until I was pulling it out of the oven an hour or so later she was asking for a slice. This photo is from Monday morning since I forgot to take a photo before we ate it. So yummy good!!

Of the Navajo Taco. We slow cooked our organic ground beef (works best for not getting me sick!) in the crock-pot all day.

Then Gino whipped up some fried bread.

A completed taco with all the trimmings. Topped with beans, slow cooked organic ground beef, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and a dollop of sour cream.

Doesn’t it look yummy!?!

Isabel’s first taste of Navajo taco’s and she loved them! She gobbled it up so fast!

With still half the dough left, Gino rolled out some homemade tortilla’s.
Just like ones his Grandma used to make.