tuesday

Breakfast: fiber poptarts, banana, milk

Lunch: grilled cheese, apples/oranges, pb crackers, milk

All ate well except Tristan (he ate his crackers today)

It's been a great morning! We actually just played a lot! We did make a Christmas wreath today and Tristan did his ornament. All are playing so well together (the 3 big boys played in Bryce's room after lunch and did a super job) They even cleaned up after they were done.

We took Bryce to school too!

Oh and I found all the pieces manger scene, so starting tomorrow I'll be reading them the christmas story and have them act out the story with the little people!

monday

Breakfast: pancakes, banana, milk

Lunch: apples, stuffed shells, yogurt, cake (thank you Hayden's grammy!)

Well it's been a good day! We spent a good chunk of the morning playing with home aid salt dough. We made our handprint ornaments (green this year) and then I made another batch of dough for the kiddos to make pretend cookie cut outs (that we will use to paint later in the week) All had an awesome time especially bryce, hayden, and paige. Landon and Thomas had fun too but they were more interested in tasting it (yuck!) We talked about the different christmas cookie shapes and what they mean at Christmas time. (bells, angels, santa, trees, stars, reindeer, sleighs, snowmen)

We then went downstairs and made winter scenes out of stickers. Thomas finally "gets" stickers and only attempted to eat them once! Yeah for Thomas. We read Christmas books and Bryce and Hayden played a Christmas cookie matching game having to do with numbers. They also played another card game I made up to see how could say what the picture of the card was first (they loved this!)

We sang and danced to Christmas music and the rest of the morning was free play until lunch. All ate well at both meals. All in bed by noon.

thomas has had 2 poos today (must have eaten a lot over the weekend :-)

Oh and I added some pics from saturday enjoy!

thursday

Breakfast: fiber poptarts, banana, milk
Lunch: fluffer nutter sandwhiches, milk, apples, yogurt (all ate very well especially lunch today! Who knew marsh pb sand. would have been such a hit! Hayden and Tristan ate a whole sandwhich each!

Great day, all in good moods and played very well today. We took Bryce to school then played in the basement. We decorated christmas trees since Tristan missed out yesterday. We talked again about angels and stars and their meaning at christmas. We read Christmas stories and practiced our song "Away in the Manger" and "Twinkle little star" They then colored some more christmas pages and we talked about Christmas colors.

It was surprisingly nice out and the kiddos got out and about for over an hour today (you could tell they need some fresh air and running around!!!)

FYI: I have many Christmas activities planned for us over the next 3 weeks. 1 activity is decorating gingerbread houses and the other is throwing a birthday party for Jesus the week of Christmas (Tues) since Bryce doesn't have school I'm going to steal my Church's theme and do a day long birthday party with lots of games and activities.

So if you would like to donate any items for these projects here's what I'm going to need to purchase:

- Toddler friendly candies for the houses (the candy the kits gave could choke our little ones) Things like gummies, m&ms, licorice, craisens for the bigger kiddos

-Items to decorate cupcakes with for the birthday party, any other fun party supplies (I think I might do the open a present game where you pass it around in a circle, maybe we'll make a pinata if I can find out how?, we are decorating your own cupcake

Thanks!

wednesday

Breakfast: pancakes, banana and apples, milk (all ate well)
Lunch: mac n cheese, fruit salad, milk, pb crackers (all ate well)

Good morning. Hayden and Thomas were a bit grumpy (but so from not napping yesterday) I had to put Hayden down for a nap at 11:30 because he had a break down (he quieted down right away so I'm hoping that means he fell asleep right away!)

We talked more about angels and the Christmas star today. Thomas and Bryce made their angels and had lots of fun with paint!

We read many Christmas books including 2 about the Christmas story of Baby Jesus!

We sang and danced to Christmas songs and sang "happy birthday" to Jesus (I think we might have a mini birthday party for Jesus the week of Christmas!)

the kiddos also colored some Christmas Sesame street pics and we talked about the color green and that it's found a lot at Christmas time.

The kids also did a sticker craft and decorated individual trees.

Hope everyone is having a good day!

***Carver's I need Hayden's library book back tomorrow I need to return them friday!

Thanks,
ashley

tuesday

Breakfast: fiber 1 poptarts, bananas and apples, milk (all ate well)
Lunch: grilled cheese sand., fruit salad, yogurt, milk (all ate well except Thomas and Paige were more into throwing their food on the floor today!)

Great day! Everyone is in an excellent mood and all are playing well. We took Bryce to school then we came home. We talked about angels today and about the Christmas story. Hayden, Tristan, and Paige made angels (will do the others another day this week) The used their handprints for the wings and decorated them.

Afterward we went downstairs and listened, danced, and sang to Christmas music.

We read some books, and had free play time until about 10:15.

To my surprise the sunshine warmed up the outside and we actually got to go out and play for almost an hour today! I think the kiddos were in shock!

The big boys played upstairs after lunch and the little ones played in the playroom.

All are sleeping (hoping Thomas is too!)

monday

breakfast: pancakes, milk
lunch: spagettios, butter bread, cheese slices, fruit salad (all ate well for both meals except Paige didn't eat much at lunch)

Great day! All are in good moods (Paige is a little fussier than usual but I think it's because of her cold) The big boys played very well together this morning and Paige and Landon hung out together.

We painted christmas trees today and decorated them with stickers. Hayden and Bryce also helped me with making a green treat for preschool tomorrow. They each made their own christmas wreath treat and then ate it (they had a blast!)

wed

sorry again for no pics! With getting the house ready for tomorrow and taking care of the kiddos I didn't have the chance!

Breakfast: poptarts (fiber one), banana, milk (all ate well)

Lunch: pb and j on high fiber bread, cheese slices, fresh pineapple, milk (all ate well except Landon)

All the kiddos were very sleepy this morning!!! Lots of rubbing eyes!

They played very well today (big boys played a lot upstairs with choo choo's and little ones played well together!) We took a field trip to pick up my turkey at my mom's. They enjoyed our little ride!

We read some books today and did a lot of free play time.

All in bed by noon! Hayden ate a ton today!