monday

Breakfast: choc chip pancakes, milk
Lunch: mac n cheese, yogurt, pb crackers, mixed fruit

All ate well (except Paige didn't eat much lunch because she ate a ton at breakfast!)

Great morning! All the kids are in good moods and are healthy !!!! Yeah! All played very well together and we had a great time during school.

We did the weather and date of week and month. We talked about the stegosaurus and Bryce and Hayden had practice today with cutting (Bryce is actually getting it while Hayden tried but then wanted me to do it) The cut out triangles and counted them and pasted them on their dinosaur. Then they colored them. We talked about the word forgiveness (but I think it was over their heads a bit) We played our dino memory game (they love it!) and sang some songs and danced.

Great day!

Put everyone down at noon (Paige cried at 12:30 and I checked on her and she pooped her pants) She told me princesses do not sleep in poo!)

Breakfast: poptarts, milk (Tristan had a banana too)
Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, applesauce, cheese slices, milk
All ate well Tristan didn't have any milk today

Tristan had a huge nasty poop (so I think he should stay away from milk today.

All is well this morning. Took Bryce to school then spent the morning playing (which they did very well together). We did do the calendar/weather and sang our new songs. We also talked about the numbers 5 and 15 (Hayden says 15 is fiveteen) We pretended little squares were dinosaur fossils and collected 5 fossils for one container and 15 for the other one. We also colored a little. Everyone except Landon who is still up with me seemed super tired at noon and all went down without a fight. Paige had a super poop right before bed.

wed

Breakfast: m & m pancakes, milk

lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, banana, cheese, milk

All ate very well both meals

Well it was another crazy morning. Bare with me (it's been a rough week with my kids which makes watching other kids tough) Bryce has gotten this attitude this week (and it just occurred to me he is 3 and a half now and every year since he was 18 months he goes through a rough patch at the half mark (oh boy!!) Landon on the other hand is opposite and never went through a tough period at 18 months but he is definitely giving me a run of it these past few weeks now that he's almost 2!!!

So we tried to do our curriculum (but I found myself yelling more than teaching) We did do the weather and date (and sang 2 songs before Bryce started body slamming Landon) Then Bryce and Hayden played the game of memory (but it was with dinosaur names) they did a good job at pronouncing them.

Next we talked about fossils and came upstairs (this was the best part of the day) All 4 kids loved playing with play dough and we made some pretend fossils by rubbing leaves on it.

It was nice out (45 and sunny) so I thought the kids would love to run outside for a half hour or so (nope!) I got them all bundled up and Landon had this huge breakdown outside (seriously from the time he started outside and ended inside I think it was 45 minutes straight of crying. Paige seemed happy, but Bryce and Hayden weren't playing and just kept telling me they were cold. so after a whole 5 minutes we came back inside (somehow got lunch ready while all 4 screamed!)

Finally after lunch we had calmness and I was able to bath all 4 kids and put them down for naps.

Ughhh, now I need to go nap!

tuesday

No pics today (sorry!) We took Bryce to school this morning and then we went to Walmart and walked around (Hayden and me wanted to go to the mall too but Landon had a breakdown after Walmart). So we came home for a half hour and played. We did the calendar and weather report (just for Hayden) Didn't do any other curriculum since Tristan wasn't here this morning and we always repeat the lesson from Monday.

Breakfast: poptart, milk
Lunch: mac n cheese, yogurt, banana/oranges, milk (all ate very well)

Great morning all in good moods and best yet no one is sick (not even a runny nose!!!! yeah!) Hayden and Bryce played well after Lunch in Bryce's room (they are soooo good sometimes)

Tristan got here around 12:45 and went right to sleep (he looked pooped!) hoping he sleeps until Gammy picks him up so he can feel better!

monday

Breakfast: pancakes, milk

Lunch: pasta and sauce, yogurt, pb crackers, pears, cookie, milk

All ate well (Paige was a hungry girl at breakfast (ate 2 huge pancakes!)

Good morning and it was 50 degrees and sunny outside so we finally (after 2 months) got to play outside for an hour after lunch today!!! yeah I think the kids were in shock but they just loved it. It was also amazing to see how much Paige has grown in the past 2 months (motor skill wise) she was on a mission outside today!!!

It was a good morning (for the most part) my 2 boys are still in recovery mode from the illness so they were a bit more whinier and fussier than usual. But all in all they played well this morning.

We did our curriculum: The weather and calendar (Hayden just loves it!) sang out dinosaur songs (Paige and Landon love to pretend to be dinosaurs)
Then we talked about the letter T today. We made the T sound and thought of words that start with T. We colored and practiced writing the letter T in our journals.

Then we colored a picture of a T-Rex (starts with a T) Our T-Rex was missing teeth (another T word) so we talked about teeth (what they are used for, what color they are, are they hard or soft?) Then we looked at some sea shells and compared them to teeth (same texture and hardness) Then the kids glued the seashells on their T-Rex to make teeth. It was a very cute and fun lesson today!

wednesday

Oh man, I left the camera downstairs and Paige is asleep down there so I can't upload the 2 pics I took (and they are cute) maybe when she wakes up??

Breakfast: pancakes, milk
Lunch: grilled cheese, yogurt, banana, milk, pb crackers, cookie

All ate well (except Landon at Breakfast)

Today we did our curriculum

We sang our 3 songs (Hayden wasn't into singing today) but the other 3 danced up a storm. Landon and Bryce had a competition to see who could roar the loudest

Then we did the weather and calendar (Hayden's favorite activity ever is the calendar, he always asks me if he can take it home)

We read our dinosaur book (which didn't go so smooth and we had a lot of fighting and crying during this time)

Then we talked about the word bone and dinosaur and I taught them the spanish words for them. They practiced saying them and I used flash cards to see if they could pick them out.

Then we came upstairs and did a fossil picture using our pretend bones to paint. They turned out great!!! and everyone did a super job painting. Then the big boys wanted to paint a colorful picture. This is when we had major melt downs with Landon and Paige (it's always tricky painting with the little ones) we got through it though but by lunch I had to put Landon and Paige in highchairs and just let them cry while I got lunch together (Landon had a rough morning with his teeth and Paige was tired)

So we had lunch then we took bathes (I couldn't stand landon's hair anymore especially since he decided to gel it with syrup this AM) They had a great time in the tub and colored and played for over a half hour.

All were in bed by noon!

tuesday

Breakfast: fiber 1 poptarts, milk, banana

lunch: pasta with sauce, apples, yogurt, milk

All ate well except Landon and Tristan didn't touch their pasta today

Good day! We took Bryce to and from school. The kids did their curriculum today (recapping yesterday's lesson)

We did the weather, calendar (and found the pattern in the calendar with shapes and colors orange and yellow. Landon is actually starting to babble the right words for the numbers but randomly points. The other kiddos counted great. and Tristan said January very clear today.

We sang our 2 new dinosaur songs (Paige and Landon really got into the dancing) Tristan and Landon go into roaring like dinosaurs.

We talked about our dinosaur poster and counted the objects in the picture.

We read our new dinosaur monthly book (Tristan was the only one who really got into it and was pointing to pictures as I asked questions.)

Tristan did his finger play paper and yellow picture (like the other kiddos did yesterday. Paige, landon, and hayden colored the front of their journals.

We finished the day off with pretend yellow painting again!

The big boys played well upstairs after lunch!