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Daphne doesn’t love art as much as her sister.    I think she sometimes can’t imagine where to start with a blank piece of paper, but she also hasn’t embraced coloring books.  She’d rather play with her trains!

But, she is starting to draw some recognizable pictures.  She draws smiley faces, sometimes in a boat.  Sunshines.  She used to draw a lot of circles.  Now she plays with little blobs of scribble to see their shapes and colors.  She loved making this rainbow with lines for each color:

She is a pro at rainbows.  That might be her favorite thing to draw or paint right now.

I am not sure what this is, maybe a person?, but it was clearly intentional!

This came home on Thursday from her occupational therapist:

Amelia drew this at the VMFA Picasso exhibit during an outing with Bebe a few weeks ago.

She was inspired by  “The Tree”:

During her second drawing, in another room, a guard said she wasn’t allowed to draw.  It’s apparently a rule of the exhibit, even for a 6 year old.

2372 days old.

We got outside a couple evenings this week in nice weather.  Tuesday night our neighbors had a osprey in their tree.  The osprey was sitting on a branch, eating a fish!  Well, a half fish.  We didn’t see it eat the first half.  The fish cross section was clearly visible under the bird’s talons.  It was really neat.  Daphne was able to find the bird a couple times in the binoculars.

Since last year, Ethan’s been promising Amelia a clip on flower for her bike, if she can ride it to our neighbor Sahana’s house.  Folks, this is not far.  But it is all up hill.  She got there tonight with two or three one finger pushes from me. But she made it.

Apparently the important thing was that she knew she could do it.  After dinner, she decided she could go all the way to the top sign.  There’s no stopping her now!

She is pretty funny riding down hill.  She won’t let loose.  She glides for 10 feet, then brakes, glides, then breaks, glides, then breaks.  She is  very careful.  Though some how she ended up with a scratch on her shin.  She proclaimed she had a great ride, as evidenced by the boo-boo.

We girls got home a while before Ethan on March 31st, and planted some tricks.  Our crown jewel was this one.  Here the girls are stuffing a pair of Amelia’s pants and one of her shirts so they look like a body is in them.

Then they set them up in Amelia’s car seat in the car.  We knew Ethan would take that vehicle the next morning.  We didn’t actually have a head, when Daphne realized her new June doll, with the giant head, would be perfect!  Amelia belted the fake Amelia into the seat.

I have to say that I left the house first the next day and forgot fake Amelia was there.   I was a bit surprised myself to “feel” the presence of a body already sitting in the car next to the one I was taking.  Ethan and Daphne left a few minutes after Amelia and I.  He said he was “startled!” by fake Amelia.

Ethan’s best joke was this block wall over their door.

It fell in on them when they opened the door.  I don’t think Daphne liked it at first, but they both liked it enough to build one on Ethan while he was in the shower.

Other tricks were:

Amelia mixed some dirt and water to make Ethan fake coffee.

Daphne put a plastic slice of break into Ethan’s rye bread bag.

They hid his underwear and put all of theirs in his drawer.

Daphne found a giant fake bug in the box of her beloved breakfast bars.  She wouldn’t touch the bug!

The girls and I did a 1 mile walk to benefit MS and Ethan was a bike patrol guy. They got their faces painted afterwards!

These girls and their hats…you were supposed to wear a bit of orange or a lot of orange for the walk.

Love this girl!

Oh and this one too.  She was sticky and pink after this cotton candy.

They both said they would walk 3 miles next year.  We might hit you all up for pledges for each mile, so the more they walk, the more they help donate.