Thursday, November 4, 2010
So Three Weeks Ago...
We went to the Tuttle Orchards to pick apples and pumpkins. The weather was great so the kids played for hours afterward. I picked up some Dutch Apple Crumble mix and the kids helped me put it all together for that evening's dessert.
So, a month ago...
We went to a Renaissance Fair. It was cold and windy but the kids had a good time. Jacob fought the giant three times and rode a horse. Ella fell asleep on the way there, so she mostly just sat in her stroller and played with her crown. I was so cold that even though I had not planned on buying anything, I ended up purchasing a knit hat to cover my ears.
Jacob's a Reader/Writer Extrordinaire!
Jacob's class has been studying books: authors, illustrators, signatures, title pages, covers... They did a special focus on Eric Carle and talked about how his books are different from other books. In class they make their own books every day so this is just a sample of what he comes home with.
Jacob has just amazed us with the amount he has learned this year in kindergarden! He can write like a champ, read so many things... I'm thinking that I'm going to set him up with an email account so that people can send him letters and he can write back. He loves to help write the grocery list and has posted handmade signs all over the house. I need to take a pic of some of them... one is a list of all the things he's going to be for Halloween for the next 23 years! We bought Jake a composition book with a robot on the cover and every night he writes in his journal before bed. Most of what he does is drawings, but sometimes he makes lists of all the words he can spell or all of his friends at school. Like his Daddy, he sometimes draws chess boards and makes up new ways to play the game.
Jacob has outgrown the Sesame Street games so he mostly plays Plants Vs. Zombies or he'll play League of Legends with Kris. It's so cute to see the two of them fighting bad guys together. If anyone happens to be shopping in the computer game area, the kid needs some first or second grade level reading and math games.
As Much As My Arms Tire...
I still love to hold this girl.
Admittedly, I love holding her MORE when she's happy and LESS when I'm trying to go to the bathroom...
Taken early October
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