Tyson got me an iPhone for Christmas. I definitely wanted to chuck my old phone off a really high building, but before I could I had to get all the pictures off of it. I sent them all to my email, and then left them there until today when I decided to clean out my inbox.
It was so fun to see these pictures and remember what the twins USED to be like, especially with their birthday right around the corner, and when I mean corner, I mean Monday.
This is my GOAL for the New Year. I put my one word up above my door so that I would see if everyday while in my house, and on the way out of my house. My inspiration came from this talk. I love this word. This word to me means: figure out what matters most, do those things and be with those people. I am trying.
I NEED to do this. I think I am getting better.
This is a tougher goal than I thought. :) Which just goes to show, that I really need it.
So what has kept me from blogging? -New Beginnings for Young Women -Co writing a Road Show script! -Going to Disneyland -Helping Tyson find a job. (Residency is done in June!) -Loving my kids -Hanging with Tyson -Preparing for their 4th Birthday on Monday!
What should I be doing right now instead of blogging? -the laundry -the dishes -cleaning the bathroom -mopping the floor -cutting Merrick's Mullet
To sum up, I am glad it is only February, and I still have 10 months to figure out how to simplify my life, cause January didn't cut it, and February isn't looking to good either.
Our first theme was PIRATES. Our second week them was SUPER HEROES!
We had lots of fun, but I am excited for my month break.
I really love these kids. The love to play together, and have so much fun! Here are some highlights from Pirate Week... We learned all about X (cause x marks the spot), R (cause that is what a pirate says), and P (cause that is what pirate starts with).
For the ABC Center:
We had to find all the R's, X's, and P's, mark them on our paper, and then put our papers in the "Message in a Bottle" bottle to be tossed out at sea.
For Math Centers we sorted pirate booty, and played Racing Pirates.
For Dramatic Play we made a pirate ships!
For the Writing center we used stamps to write each others names and wrote in our Preschool Journals about Pirates.
We went on a treasure hunt with a real map and everything! We had to find all these different letters, identify them, and then find X! Then we ate the "pirate booty", the next day we made pirate hooks that looked like the letter r!
For our Writing Center I made them super hero masks to find the "dark super s villians around the house"!
We have also been working on beginning sounds so we had some pictures and they had to decide if they started with s. Everytime they found one that had to draw an S on their paper. Then we counted how many S's we found, and we also found beginning sounds and sorted them on the pocket chart.
For Math Centers we had Super Hero Math and had to put the number of super hero stickers in the correct boxes, and the next week we did a little subtraction and Buzz Lightyear had to save dolls from the burning house, and then count how many were left.
For the Writing Center we used pipe cleaners to make letters, and used stamps to write each others names.
We put on our new Super Hero Capes.
Posed for the Camera
and then we counted to 100 three times and practiced our transitions for each group of 10. Everytime we landed on a number with a zero we ate ZERO HERO treats!
We learned about following directions and the letter S when we made a movie for the book Silly Sally. So hilarious. Sorry it cuts my voice out a little bit.
I needed to get a couple craft things done, and I had out my box of buttons. Merrick generously dumped the box of buttons all over the floor, and Berkleigh came running to play.
This
is how we got from here
to here.
Nothing like a little spoonful of sugar to get the nursery tidied back up!
Tyson has had some random time off. We love random time off because we get to do fun things, and I can veer from my "to do" list to spend time with my favorite people! Monday, for FHDE (family home day & evening) we went to Disneyland. Always a blast!
Tuesday night we went to "Surf City Nights", which is the farmers markets/sell weird junk downtown.
It is always fun to hear the live music and to smell the fried food. We were even blessed with seeing a real "Capitan Hook". I love the weirdos. They are definitely my favorite.
Today, we went on a hike at the Laguna Canyon Wilderness Park. It was gorgeous, and FREEZING, but I shouldn't be complaining about my 60 degrees in the shade...
Berkleigh was more interested in doing "princess" poses for the camera than actually hiking.
