Science Sunday

Santa brought Ainsley a Chemistry kit. Here she is learning about Capillary Action. She started with yellow coloring, then added blue. The red is from the red cotton band, which turned the middle red.



Santa brought Kaley her first science kit with lots of experiments based around color. Kaley put primary color tablets into the test tubes. She then banded the colors together and saw what the results were when held up to light.

Letterboxing at Newell Park

So, we decide to try our hand at Letterboxing a couple of weekends ago. It was quite a day and it didn't turn out quite the way we had anticipated, largely because I did not have the right kind of compass...so Team Worthley Girls was on pretty much a wild goose chase. Once on track (thanks to some friendly folks), we finally found the correct foot bridge we needed to start our hunt. The girls still had a good time. They got really dirty making dirt balls out of "moon dust". Ainsley was our "look out" person and Kaley was appointed "the dandelion finder". Ainsley found our "Y" tree and the tree stump which were two key landmarks in our Letterboxing hunt. We are pretty sure that our letterbox was hidden in what used to be a dry, rocky river bank. Going the weekend after our terrible rain storms was not the best of ideas as the dry river bank was a full fledged running river. Needless to say, we did not find our Letterbox, but thanks to Kaley, we found many dandelions to blow.

Ice Skating with Naomi

Snack shop

Poppi playing Snack Shop with Ainsley and Kaley. Kaley likes playing the shop keeper. her favorite thing to say is "what do you want to buy"....over and over and over

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Face painting

The girls realized that they could paint their faces with the water color pencils....and paint they did!

One minute she's a ballerina, the next- a robot

We received some gifts and before we could dispose of the cardboard boxes, Miss Ainsley swiped them and started working on her Robot suit. With daddy's help, she was able to parade around the house as a robot.

The Nutcracker is finally here

Poppi and Nana came to visit mid-December for our long awaited trip to SF to see SF Ballet's Nutcracker. The girls went to the ballet while one of the dad's car shopped and the other worked. Michael joined us later for dinner at Max's Opera House Cafe. This is going to be a hard act to follow....

Kaley wanted to hang an ornament on the Children's Tree in the Civic Center playground....so she did...

Ainsley ran into (literally) a friend from Sequoia, Gabrielle. It was fun for the girls to see one another all dressed up and in such a fancy place (War Memorial Operal House)

The excitement of the day was ooozzzing out of the Worthley girls. Ainsley, especially, loved our seats where she could sit on the edge of seat and rest on the railing while watching the dancers. It was such a memorable day. Hope to do it again in a couple of years.

Making Holiday Candy

It has become the family tradition to make holiday treats for our friends. This year, daddy and the girls worked on the project together. We learned that humidity really does make a difference in the outcome of divinity....three failed batches later :)

Kaley and her winter concert

Kaley sang three songs really nicely at the Winter concert. Her favorite was one in which she kept the beat by alternating claps between her hands and legs while singing "Hey Mama wee bear"....It was really exciting to see that she was able to get all the words out to the songs. It is rewarding to see her progress through speech. Here she is with Naomi.

Ainsley sings "You better watch out"

Ainsley's favorite Christmas song is "You better watch out, you better not cry". We were all working hard on getting the tree ready when Ainsley disappeared with the Christmas Tree Skirt. Soon she reappeared....wear...the tree skirt and singing "her song".

Making Placemats at Mary Clare's

The girls were invited over to Mary Clare's to make Christmas placemats and eat pizza. We have a really enjoyable night with the Davis family.

Kaley lost her first tooth

For a couple of weeks, Kaley has been commenting that she had a loose tooth, It was usually in "play". Then, last week, we noticed that Kaley's bottom tooth DID look like it was moving. I asked her if she fell at school. "No" was her answer. She then said she was excited about the tooth fairy coming. I had a feeling that this "loose" tooth was something that she was forcing so that the tooth fairy would come. I told her that the tooth fairy couldn't come yet, because Kaley wasn't on the tooth fairy's list because she was a bit young to loose a tooth. The next day, I happened to glance in her mouth and noticed that her gum was swollen and it looked like something "white" was popping through. Well, things progressed quickly and Thursday, we made a quick trip to Joanne's for fabric for Kaley's tooth fairy pillow. Friday, the tooth was a' hanging and I was a' sewing. Kaley did not eat much Friday or Saturday and finally today, she was munching salad and.....the tooth popped out. For the next couple of hours, Kaley kept the tooth in place, but wouldn't talk. Finally, she was coughing and the tooth was out for good. She spit it out and placed in my hand and...smiled:)