thursday

Breakfast: fiber 1 poptarts, banana, milk

Lunch: pb and j on high fiber bread, apple sauce, cheese slices, milk

All ate very well!!! Tristan ate a whole sandwhich at lunch!

Great day! All are in very good spirits (except Landon whom is very very fussy!) and are playing very well together.

We took Bryce to school then went downstairs to play (no outside time today with the yucky weather) The kids (Hayden and Tristan especially) were very into crafts and arts today. They first made a prayer chain with stickers and then we practiced cutting (look out, Tristan is pretty good at it!) then they taped their links together. Later we went water color painting crazy!! They had a blast we painted turkey hand prints and did creative painting too.

I needed to start cleaning the house for Thanksgiving, so the kids helped me to straighten up downstairs and of course all "pretended" to vaccuum :-)

Great day! All are asleep!

wed

breakfast: choc chip fiber 1 pancakes, milk, banana (all ate well, thomas ate 3 pancakes!)

Lunch: stuffed shells, apples, cheese, milk, choc gold fish crackers (all ate well, Thomas didn't eat too much but that was because of his huge breakfast!)

Fun day! I took it upon myself to change batteries in all toys that were dead. Wow the kids acted like it was Christmas, they played with all the toys like they were brand new! So we did a lot of playing today! We played farm, basket ball (we placed a bucket around the room), cars, blocks, telephone.

Hayden and Bryce helped me to package up our "operation Christmas child" gifts. They both were super excited that a little boy who has nothing is getting a bunch of cool stuff. They filled out their info sheets about themselves that I'm going to put in the box. The little ones were trying out some of the toys and the big boys would tell them, "no no! these are for the little boy!" heehee

We then went outside and blew bubbles (haven't done that in a while and it was a hit!) we also played lots of frisby (or as Bryce would say "frosby")

Hayden and Bryce played nicely upstairs after lunch until nap time again :-)

Thomas was a little grumpy today (not sure if it was from his shot yesterday?) He would actually cry on and off for no reason??? Paige seemed a little sleepy this am.

Thomas and Paige need diapers soon!

tuesday

All these pics are from my phone that Kyle finally uploaded a while ago. I didn't have time to take new pics today (one of those mornings) so thought you would enjoy some pics you never got to see.

Breakfast: fiber 1 poptarts, banana, milk

Lunch: eggs with cheese, pb crackers, apples (apple sause for some) milk

All ate well for both meals and once again I had to feed everyone around 10:30!!!

Busy morning, we took Bryce to school. Then we came home and talked some more about thanksgiving. Tristan made his turkeys. Hayden practiced square drawings while we all counted the sides. We also talked about big and little and made big and little squares.

Later we made pumpkin pie (pretend) each kiddo got a plate and I put some yellow and red finger paint on it and they swirled it around to discover that it made orange (the color of pumpkins)

We read our 1,2,3 thanksgiving book and counted some more.

We then went outside for a good big (sunshine again!) and played until lunch

monday

Breakfast: choc chip pancakes (fiber 1), banana, milk (all ate super well!)

Lunch: mac n cheese, pb crackers, apple sauce and milk (all ate again very well)

Well I thought this morning was going to be perfect because the weather is terrific, but to my surprise we had a lot of grumpy kiddos today :-( Not too bad, but had a lot of fighting over toys (Bryce was sent to his room) and lots of little ones wanting held a lot instead of playing. I also had to feed lunch at 10:30 (because Paige and thomas were standing outside at the door licking it!!!!) I thought for sure they wouldn't eat well at 10:30 but I guess they were starving because everyone ate a ton!

After lunch the little ones played very well in the playroom while Hayden and Bryce finally played well upstairs with their choo choo's.

We made turkeys today :-) and talked a little more about thanksgiving. We read our new thanksgiving books from the library and did the weather and date. Sang some songs outside. We did get out for a while and they had fun most of the time running around in the sunshine!

As you can see Thomas was stripped down after lunch time (I also had to wash pb out of his hair!) haha

All are asleep!

thursday

breakfast: fiber 1 poptart, banana, milk
lunch: pb j on high fiber bread, apples, cheese slices, and milk
everyone ate very well for both meals (Tristan definately made up from tuesday!)

Good day except for the incident where Tristan bit Landon :-( Ughh what to do with him and Bryce about biting???? He was sneeky about it too (did it in the tent where I couldn't see him)

Other than that good day. Took bryce to school this morning, they all played very well downstairs when we got home. We did the weather, date, and sang song and danced. They loved the tent today too! We tried to go outside for a little (but it was really cold!) They got about 15 minutes of fresh air and time to run around. We came back in and played some more till lunch time.

Didn't get too much curriculum done today because they were playing so good (don't mess with a good thing) Maybe we'll get some done when they wake up from naps!

Hayden and Bryce played awesome again today after lunch up in Bryce's room (trains) I tried to let Tristan up but he only lasted 10 minutes before the big boys were hollering (just too little yet to play alone with them) He wasn't happy but took it ok when I let him and Landon play with their own choo choos downstairs.

Still need some clothes for Thomas other than that we are good to go!

wednesday

Breakfast: fiber 1 pancakes, banana, milk (all ate very well)

lunch: eggs with cheese, apples, yogurt, milk

What a blahhh day it is!! Tried to shake things up a bit since we were stuck inside and made a fort upstairs then set up the tent and tube downstairs. We read books, colored and did lots of stickers today. We talked about what "silly" is and did things that were "silly" and circled all the "silly" things on a picture.

We also watched Sesame Street because the all new season started this week!!!

As the morning wore on I noticed the bigger boys getting bored. I allowed them to go up to Bryce's room to play. I was expecting the worst but they were sooooooooooooooo good! They played up there for a half hour before lunch and an hour afterward. I checked on them every 15 minutes and they were actually having conversations. They played trains, blocks, puzzles (oh Bryce had a wonderful time teaching Hayden how to do "big boy" puzzles and showing him where the pieces go). When I finally went up to tell them it was nap time they were sitting on Bryces bed playing with his stuffed animals. They even helped me to clean up all the toys (ahhhhhhh they are finally getting old enough to "play" together without killing each other) Now if only Bryce could play with Landon like that!

Cutest thing of the day: Bryce was crying because he wanted his airplane to sleep with but I already told Hayden he could sleep with it. Hayden said to me "Ashy I don't want Bryce to be sad" he ran over to his room and gave him his airplane!" cute!

The little ones are all in good moods, played very well together. Thomas is a poop machine today (3 times this morning!)

Oh and I need more clothes for Thomas

tuesday

breakfast: fiber 1 poptarts, banana, milk (all ate well, Tristan only ate his banana)
Lunch: mac n cheese, clementines, gram crackers with pb and milk (all ate well except Tristan again only ate his pb crackers)

Good day! We took Bryce to school and then came home and played downstairs. We colored our flash cards again and I quizzed Tristan and Hayden and they both did excellent! We did the weather and date and read some books. Then went outside the rest of the morning until it was time to pick up Bryce. It looks yucky out but the temp is actually pretty high.

Everyone is in good moods and played well all mornings. No big fights at all. Tristan is getting so good at time out all I have to say is "Tristan sit on time out" and he runs right over sits and of course pouts!! He was attacking Bryce and wouldn't let him alone (role reversal right?!)

Oh and some pics are from yesterday afternoon when Bryce and Hayden wanted to play school bus (so cute!)