The Martyn's Recipes of Life: Our little family

These past few weeks have been busy for our family. The girls are finally feeling better, and sleeping through the night for past 5 nights I might add, and so the are getting their energy back. Jake's summer basketball league has started and it seems like he is always gone. Ad me, well being a wife and mom of twins, I'm always busy.

One of the new things with the girls is they like to color. Both of them are always asking to color. Even Hannah, who still doesn't has as large of vocabulary as Hailey, is constantly asking to color. "Color, color". It's really cute. One of our problems is staying on the paper. But there is enough on that subject for a whole other post.

Last night, while Jake was down in Seattle with his boys, the girls and I were cleaning up. They had been coloring for most of the evening while I made a triple batch of hamburger soup. While we were cleaning up I gathered all of their colored pages from the day and stacked them on the counter. A little later in the night I knocked them down or some thing. While stacking them again one page caught my eye.

Now Hailey likes to have you draw things for her. Her favorites are cats, balloons, really just those two. Hannah likes stars and hearts. Cats too. Hailey will ask for you to draw something and then ask again as soon as you are done. Here are what most of the pages look like...