Growing Up Pumpkin a Retrospective

  Underwood Family Farm at Pumpkin Time.
A retrospective

 My Hubby pulling Natan three and Hannah almost one.

 Here Hannah is almost 2. I know the above photo is not a pumpkin photo but such a cute shot and she is at the farm.

This year Hannah is almost three and Natan is five. We went with our friends from the valley it was hot and I don't have a single shot of them together.

 This year. Together again and smiling-it was fun.

Camp

Here are some cute pictures from our weekend at camp. The big kids in the picture are from my 7th grade class in Malibu.

Kabbalat Shabbat in the Yurt

Song Session

shabbat morning Torah art

Hannah's art

Natan is part of the group

Hannah gets suited up for the ropes course

Natan's ready to climb

Up goes brother

Sunday in the garden

Digging

Rainbow

On our way home, kids on bikes, we saw this...

Taken in front of our house

 This week we read this :
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I give between Me and you, and every living being that is with you, to generations forever; I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall happen, when I place a cloud over the earth,  and the bow will be seen in the cloud, I will remember My covenant    between Me and you and every living being among all flesh, and the water shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” (Bereshit/Genesis 9:12-15)

 

Third times the charm

The last time I went to visit my parents I brought back some of the toys I played with when I was little. Some little people, books and of course Barbie. Lulu loves the Barbies. While playing with her I realized Barbie doesn't have the great of a wardrobe and what she does have is very 80's. So I decided to make some skirts with my new sewing machine. (B-day present).

I thought it would be easy.  I started by tracing a skirt from the collection. Not so good. Then I sacrificed a skirt, cut it in half, to make a pattern. Almost got it.

Model and Sacrificial Skirts

Getting better

Failure Skirts

These two were close the  blue flower one was way too big and there was no way to get the pink flower one over her hips.

Finally...

TaDa!

 

 

 

 

Even with a pink ric-rac belt that snaps.

I'm no Ralph Lauren but I read (while in the grocery store line) that high waist skirts are in for fall.

 Barbie looks happy.

Too Hot to Post

It's been so hot here the last few days. It was 100 in Malibu on Monday. It was too hot to play outside so I took the kids to the mall to keep cool and check out the Halloween costumes. Here are some pictures I took with my phone.

NatanLightyear

Can we get this?

Weird Rainbow at the end of the day (it wasn't raining)

Hot

It's so hot here today 83 and we live .8 miles from the beach, that's pretty close. Why am I surprised? I shouldn't be really its been cold all summer and now the last week of September feels like summer finally. What I'm surprised about...my tomatoes. After thinking myself a summer garden failure my tomato plant over the last three days of sun perked up and two tomatoes turned red and a few more are starting to turn. It's amazing. I would post pictures but my 6 and three year old ate them before I could get back outside with the camera.

HannahLulu Lulu

I have a daughter. She's 3 1/2. She told me she changed her name.
"To what?" I asked
"Hannahlulu Lulu" "Queen of the surfer girls"
"Like the song?"
"Yep"
"Okay but I like you name"
"But my name is so long!"
What do you mean?"

"Hannah Lulu Lastname Olivia that's so long"

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