Robot Batteries

I came home from a meeting the other night to this...



Little wooden cookies ALSO double as robot batteries (or pig utters, but that wasn't what they were going for).

And the cookie jar, aka robo arm.

Tyson is so creative!

the daily grind

Read this awesome book and made our own leaf men/women:


fhe

homemade pizza


water-colored fall leaves
Went on a walk, picked up the fall leaves and sorted them by color, shape, and size:

Went to the park:



Had a puppet show:

Went on a bike ride:
Love it!

All things Thanksgiving

I made:

A new leafy garland:
(The inspiration came from this awesome Potterybarn garland, and the fact I didn't want to spend $60!).

A happy Thanksgiving ruffly pillow:
(Which I made from a tutorial I found online. The link is not on this laptop. If you want it, I will email you.)

And one of my friends told me about this idea that she heard in Relief Society. I wasn't there because... I am in YW, but I thought it was such a fun idea...

The twins and I cut out MILLIONS of feathers on my cricut, and cut out a turkey.
We wrote a small note to those we sent them to saying they needed to write their name and what they are thankful for on the feathers and send them back.
If you love getting snail mail... well besides bills, then this is the best thing you will ever do!
We just started getting the feathers back and the twins are so excited to go to the mailbox!
We sent out 20 letters, and have only received 4 letters back so far, but look how full our Thankful Turkeys tail feathers is!

It is fun to see what your loved ones are thankful for too.

Here is our turkey a couple days ago...
Berkleigh is way into posing for the camera right now, so I just go with it. Vogue!




Here is our turkey today, as of Friday, November 13! We can't wait for more!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Week

So I wasn't in a blogging mood this week.. but I should, so here is our week thus far...preschool. It kinda consumes me when it is my turn to teach. Good thing I only teach every 6 weeks!

I went 6 weeks with 4 hours a week without my children! It was lovely!

This week our theme was a science theme: Animal Homes.

We had pictures of animals and the kids had to put them with the appropriate home.

We talked about how birds make their nests and then we did a little creative drama (that is for you Megan!) We went outside, flapped our wings like birds, and picked up twigs, grass, straw, string and leaves to make our birds nests.

We came back in and made our nests:

We read The Very Busy Spider, Duck on a Bike, In the Small Small Pond, On the African Savanna, and the Little House.

We made beehives (this was a last minute spontaneous idea... like 10 minutes before the kids got to my house):We learned the letter B.

I made each kid a paper with 3 different habitats or homes on it, a desert, a farm, and the ocean. We had lots of cut out animals and they had to put them in the right "home".
We went on a bear hunt. You know that song? Love it... "with big green eyes, and a fuzzzzy little tail. I'm not scared!"

And we played a hopscotch type game but with lily pads. The first time they just practiced jumping on each one. The second time, I flipped over the lily pads and they had the letters we have learned so far. They had to jump on the pad, say the letter and sound and continue.

I forget sometimes how much I love teaching, and I forget how tired I get! When I want to craft at night, I end up in bed asleep. early. Early being 11. :)

love

This cute couple tied the knot this past weekend. It was wonderful and TIRING to be with them this weekend.


I don't have any pictures of the beautiful event, but I have a picture of my bouquet that I am still enjoying!

body language

Can't you tell the exact emotions going on in this picture...

Berkleigh: I do not want to be close to this HUGE ant.

Berkleigh's Eyes: I am keeping you in my sights you big ugly bug.
Berkleigh's Legs: You are not putting me down mom. Clench.

Mom: You will take a picture with this bug... and like it. :)

Mom's hand: Death grip on Merrick's arm.
Mom's body: Leaning into said ant to look like we all want to be there.
Mom's smile: Fake.

Merrick: Is he real?

Merrick's face: Confusion. Didn't I see him in a movie?

Merrick's body: Cowering away from Flick.

Flick: I am going to pretend I am having a wonderful time, although these kids are scared of me

and it is 100 degrees outside and I am dying of heat in this blue getup.

By the way, my kids did ask to get a picture with him before all the above happened.

independence

He wanted to put on his pjs by himself...

It took 10 minutes.