Thursday

sorry lack of pics, my camera died this morning!

Breakfast poptarts and bananas with milk

Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, cherries, cheese slices, and milk

It was a good morning. We stayed busy inside (too hot outside!) We painted pictures of fireworks and talked about what colors we saw and how they sounded.

We then went downstairs and played the rest of the morning. We did school time today and talked about the food group meats. We made a graph of our favorite meats (which was funny since my kids and the carver kids don't eat much meat!) but they pretended they loved fish and stuff! haha

Then we colored and practiced cutting (which I was very impressed by Tristan's cutting skills!) They cut out different meats and pasted them in a dish. We then cut out pics in magazines of meats.

We did the weather and calendar days. Lilly loved the Mother Goose songs (we sang all of them and danced a bunch)

Lilly was grumpy starting around 10:15, I thought she just wanted attention but it was more like she was tired! She slept through lunch but ate at the same time :-) Then all the sudden she spit out some milk and perked up! She's now up playing with the carver kiddos in the play room, the Rankins and Tristan are up in Bryce's room playing for about 5 more minutes until nap time.

I practiced coloring with Lilly (she got it kind of) and she did try to eat the crayon a few times, but seemed to enjoy it!

Ok let's hope for some long naps today!

Wednesday

Breakfast: poptarts, bananas, milk

Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, apples, cheese slices, milk

Everyone ate well today!

We spent the morning playing inside again, it's just too hot out there!

We played some barn yard fun game before taking Bryce to school (Hayden had a blast!)

We did playdough for a while. Landon was trying to eat it again but the Carver kiddos did well with it.
Then our buddy Ian came over to play for a while (and the kids had fun showing off for him) I had them practice saying his name. It was cute, Landon said E-FGHIJKLMNO.....

We played downstairs the rest of the morning and when Ian left we did the weather and day of week/month.

Then had some lunch and off to pick up Bryce.

The carvers played in the playroom and the Rankin boys upstairs after lunch (I don't know why Hayden hasn't wanted to play with the boys this week?)

Tuesday

Breakfast: whole grain choc chip muffins, milk
Lunch: grilled cheese on wheat, cherries, yogurt, milk
Everyone ate well for breakfast. The Carver kiddos did not eat much at lunch today (I noticed last week they weren't eating much at lunch either??

Today it was so HOT!!! 100 degrees so no way were we going outside today! We stayed inside in the nice air conditioning! The kids were all great and in good moods today. We played and read early in the morning then did school time from 10-11 for a change (haven't done it since May!)

We sang our Mother Goose Time songs (and Wendy our weather girl joined in) they were so excited to see her! We did the weather and the day of the week/month. We talked about hot and what we wear when it's hot outside.

We then did 2 activities.

#1: We learned the difference between stomping and tip toeing (so funny) Hayden and Bryce got it but the other two just kind of looked at us in a funny way. The kids made a sign with one side a dino who was stomping and the other he's tip toeing (we played a game with the signs then)

#2: We made flash cards reviewing the shapes, numbers, colors that we learned. The kids colored them and then the two oldest boys cut them out (yes it took like 30 minutes but they did it all by themselves!

Then we ate lunch and the Rankin boys played choo choo's upstairs while the Carver's (hayden wanted to play with sissy) played in the playroom while I cleaned up lunch.

Thursday

Breakfast: waffles, banana, milk

Lunch: turkey and cheese sandwhich, yogurt, cherries, and cookie

All ate great!!! They were so excited about the cookies (orea cakesters) that they woofed their food!

Fun morning! We played outside for most of it! Sorry for lack of pics (my camera battery died!) I blew up the bounce house and Tristan, Hayden, and Bryce and Paige played in there for almost the entire time! Landon and Lilly swang a lot! Oh and because lilly was around Landon a good bit she is a pro at singing all aboard the choo choo train song!

Everyone seems in good spirits today! Paige is having an obsession about bugs and being scared of them for some reason.

Lilly ate great today but will not drink much! I will give her more milk after nap (I changed her about 3 times this morning and her butt is pretty raw even though I put on cream each time?)

Paige needs diapers and Hayden is running low on pull-ups (he's peed in every singe one this week during nap time for some reason)

Wednesday

Breakfast: poptarts and milk

Lunch: spagettios, cheese, grapes, milk, cookies

All ate great!

Spent the morning playing outside (it's so nice!) Bryce had a rough early morning (needs a nap today boy!) The others were in terrific moods. We watched little tv (just during lunch) we read books and played downstairs, we also went upstairs and played choo choo's in Landon's room!

Tuesday

Breakfast: cin/sugar waffles, milk
Lunch: pb and marsh on wheat, grapes, cheese, milk

All ate well (except lunch again wasn't a hit due to snacks at vbs!

It was a fun/busy morning. We had VBS! Bryce went off to his group and had so much fun! The little ones learned again about Joseph and how he had special talents. The kids colored a picture and glued (Hayden practiced cutting) we played the parachute game outside and sang lots of songs. We pretended to hunt animals and go fishing. We made Egyptian necklaces, and got tatoos on our hands.

Landon had speech today too! He did great and guess what! ? He tested out of speech! He has one last session and then he's on his way! I can't believe my boys both are done with speech!

Monday

Breakfast: poptarts with peaches and milk (all ate great!)

Lunch: mac n cheese with grapes and milk (they just nibbled, too many snacks at bible school!)

Bible school today! It was a little chaotic with registration but after that things seemed good. Landon was a bit of a grump but the other kiddos loved it! I stayed with Hayden, Paige, and Landon and Bryce went with the 4 and 5's group.

We learned about joseph and his colorful coat and how God gives us hope. the little ones made a colorful coat (will get at the end of the week), the colored tons of pics, sang songs, and played games outside. Of course also had a snack and drink(s) Hayden took well to a pre-teen (teen) boy and kept asking about his cast on his arm. Landon had his cars the entire time and was a handful (he was super ready for bed today and had a melt down, I had to yell at him to get his diaper changed he all of a sudden got quiet and said "I sorry mommy!" haha

Bryce seemed to have fun today too! Anytime I peeked in he was following directions and playing well (he was the littlest in his group :-) He said he ate an egg for snack today but the yellow fell out (they had hard boiled eggs?)

Off to nap (for me too ) I'm pooped!