Why I didn't blog this week

On top of teaching preschool and going to doc appts and having my husband work insane hours for a filming project at work . . . for three afternoons this week, I got to be in charge of these 4 cuties (ages 1, 2, 3, 4). Oh my. What a bunch of sweeties! But I really think it's good to have crazy busy weeks every now and then . . . because after all that, going back to our regular routine makes it seem so much easier than it felt before!

(Even with this one who started refusing to nap this week!)

October, from my phone

October flew by. Is time getting faster? Seriously?

Lots of pictures this month . . .

my cutie pie in her Sunday best

chocolate factory tour

visited Salt Lake LDS temple with Grandma

Porter is a puzzle maniac! He did this 100 piece puzzle about 3-5 times a day for 2 weeks straight.

cutest moment of the month

fun seeing the hubby's graphic design work all around (billboard)

weekend getaway = unlimited bed jumping

loved the Blue Boar Inn for breakfast - thanks to a great recommendation

rode the alpine slide in Park City

ready to slide - the kids loved it

love this snuggle pic - Lu looks so old

walking Toby (best pets are the ones that belong to grandma & grandpa)

there's the day Porter decided to wear his helmet ALL day

angry birds have infiltrated every area of our lives

Stroke of inspiration: kids screaming in store, nothing in my purse to bribe them but a pen. I drew two eyes on a finger then told them they could earn the smile by having fewer than 3 warnings while I finished shopping. They turned into perfect angels for the rest of the trip. Desperation is the mother of invention.

Looney Tunes art exhibit

taking a break from bike racing to eat their go-gurts

park with grandma

expert piano pounder

expert guitar strummer

grandma nye was expected for a visit, the kids anxiously awaited

My budding photographers take so many pictures with my phone. I always find random pictures of myself. I delete most of them. But sometimes I keep a few here or there.

Porter spelled Lucy's name on his own! 

It's a terrible picture, but I have to document Lucy's new obsession with princess movies. She rarely sits through a 20 minute tv show, but we started buying princess movies and she pulls her chair up to the tv and sits through the entire film. She loves princesses.

Porter and Mommy got to go to a BYU game. We forgot we even had the tickets until 2 hours before the game. We only stayed for the first half, but we had so much fun!

October for us is donut month. Tradition.

This was the first and last time Lucy wore those cute boots. The nylon lining got full of all that hay and I can't get it out. It feels like slivers. So sad.

I had a sick week. Thank goodness for frozen waffles. 

Pumpkin patch. Tradition.

Nye Halloween Dinner. Lucy was scared to death of  that sasquatch (aka, Daddy).

Halloween Day

Trick-or-Treat at the mall with our friends

Trick-or-Treat around the neighborhood.

Happy Halloween!

Their cuteness takes my breath away most days. Halloween is no exception.

Cutest Pumpkin in the World

Before carving pumpkins the other night, I told Porter to draw his design. He drew a sad face with an owie on his head because he wanted to "surprise everyone with how scary his pumpkin is" (his words).

 

After cleaning it out, Porter helped me cut it to look like his drawing. He did the eyes and owie practically on his own. I helped on the mouth.

And it is, by far, the cutest pumpkin I've ever seen! I can't get over it. I love my cute little pumpkin artist!

Preschool: Weather + Letter F

WEATHER LESSON

We spent about 10-15 minutes on each of the four types of weather we learned about. For each, we read a book, recorded the weather on our paper with a picture, then did some sort of experiment to learn about it. Here it is . . .

Read Alouds

My beautiful drawings for the kids to copy. You don't need to say it; I should have been an artist. I know, I know. ;)

And the kids copied it. Believe it or not, folding the paper into fourths was probably the trickiest part of this activity. ;)

Sun Activity: Revolving the earth(s) around the sun. We may or may not have had 5+ earths revolving.

Then we threw in a little rotating while revolving. That got crazy.

shadow tag

Rain Cloud Experiment

Wind Experiment

Snow Experiment (aka, Snack): These are frozen CapriSuns all blended up. I'm so lucky it worked so well (I didn't try this out beforehand). But it ended up looking just like snow and it tasted really yummy! 

I told them the Nilla Wafers were suns. That one was a stretch.

LETTER F LESSON

F is for Frog

Song: Five Green and (Speckled) Frogs

Fishing for F Words

Reading the /f/ Sound with a Witch Finger

Kids Read Sounds with Witch Fingers (forgot to take pics of the kids doing this)

Read Aloud

Kids had to sort through pictures and only feed the frogs words that start with F.

I forgot to take any pictures when we were actually having the lesson. But luckily, Lucy happened to be playing with my phone and she took a couple pictures while the kids were actually there.