This afternoon, Fay told me she wanted to make a Halloween book with multiple pages. Her request reminded me of little books I made in school growing up which are made out of a single piece of paper. Well, thank goodness for youtube, because I found a tutorial, and made Fay and Carter each a book.

Fay went right to work creating a masterpiece of Halloween literature and illustration! Carter’s illustrations changed as his thoughts moved. At first, all his pictures were of members of the immediate family. Then they were of Grandmother. Then they morphed into spooky things like Fay had been doing in her book. And I don’t mean to say he drew a picture of the family, followed by a picture of spooky thing. I mean the picture he drew was introduced first as a picture of the family, and then it was explained as a picture of spooky things.  I love that boy!

I was quite impressed with Fay’s book, actually. She asked for help spelling each word; but she thought of all the words (though I advised her to shorten the title of her book, so it would fit on the page), and wrote them down. Our Miss is growing up fast right now, and we are loving being along for the ride!

Here are videos of the kids reading their books.

Also, here’s a picture Fay took of Portia when she swiped my phone. The lady in the grocery store the other day told me that Portia’s asymmetrical eyes make her look skeptical. I think this picture definitely captures that. She’s so fun! We’re so glad she’s ours!