Laid back weekend

What a nice change to have a low-key weekend! After a rocky start on Friday, with Caroline having to stay home from school with an ear infection and Margaret's friend's sleepover getting cancelled due to stomach flu, we've had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. Friday night we had the Barrette gals over for a PJ party, and the rest of the weekend has just been running a few errands and hanging out at the house. We enjoyed a family movie night on Saturday night with "Akeela and the Bee." What a great, inspirational movie!

Caroline, Annie, and Margaret's PJ party Friday night.


Margaret cooking us some yummy curried chicken and veggies on Saturday. She pretty much did the whole thing--and then ate it too! She's such an adventurous eater!


Caroline checking our the Wall Street Journal on Sunday morning. Believe it or not she made it through the whole article of Bernie Madoff's guilty plea before trading it for her American Girl magazine. She wanted to know if people really got to play ping pong in prison....

PIP the Penguin is done!

After many sessions of hard work carving foam, paper mache-ing, cutting & attaching fabric, painting feet & beak (bill?), Margaret finally finished her school project this weekend. She completed PIP the Penguin, a 3-D model of a Little Blue Fairy Penguin who hails from Australia. Here she is posing with the final product. Pretty impressive, don't you think?

Starting the Savings Accounts...

In these troubled economic times, it seemed as good a time as any to have the girls open their first savings accounts. We went to the credit union last week and got them all signed up. They got cute little "Money Bunnies" and educational books to go along with it. I also signed up for the electronic access, hoping it will make it easier for me to remember to pay them their allowance if I can just zap the $$$ in there whenever I'm thinking about it!