Pre-K Graduation

Our little girl had her Pre-K graduation ceremony last night. It was a fun evening remembering how much she's learned this last year: all the letters, to count to 100, extra-family social interaction, and how to READ!


Grand entrance.


Finding her seat.


Waiting for the program to begin.


The program had a few great songs; this was her favorite!

Her big brother showing support.

Creating

Here is a post to show off our talents. David's picture was put up at the City Recreation Center for the Art Fair. He has a hidden pictures tree (like in the Friend).

Rebecca, Benjamin, and I were having fun playing games and doing puzzles. This is a fun puzzle she did all by herself, then you can play a search game with it.

I wasn't home for this, so may not know the story, but when I loaded the pictures up I had to laugh at this funny scene. David brought this clay home after he finished his Lochness Monster documentary. He has had fun creating many things with it. (notice there is even a worm for the fish)

I almost got rid of this shirt. I had it in the yard sale and it didn't get sold, I had it bagged up to give to a friend and ended up pulling it from the bag... Just had to keep it. Doesn't Andrew look cute! I love his calm, sweet eyes. (that is the way he is most of the time, with laughs for the funny things the children do)

Clark gave me this book for Mother's day, I started working on a painting for fun. I know it has many flaws, but it was so enjoyable to feel like I created something. I felt I learned new techniques as well.

Here is a close-up of the water, which is my favorite part.

My friend gave me this painting paper, which is fun to experiment on. This is the full picture.

I would be happy just to have the water, stump and grass in this picture. That is my favorite. Thanks, Clark for the fun.

Races and the Temple

Yesterday was Friendship games and I was able to help David's class. Clark stayed home with the others and dropped by off and on to see the events. I really loved watching the children have so much fun competing.

Here is David waiting for his turn to race. He ran the 50 meter hurdles and the 50 meter race. Then they had other little competitions, and some fun games as well.

50 meter hurdles. There was the 100 meter race and 4x100 meter relay but David said he didn't qualify for that one.

They had a blow-up slide and these big balls for them to play in as well. Can you see David in the ball?

Rebecca after she ran.

Blob tag

Tug-of-war I was in charge of these five children. We had a fun time. I only wish I could have follow Rebecca around as well to take pictures of her in the sac races, etc.

Today we woke-up early and headed to the temple for an 8 a.m. session. I love how excited the children are to go to the temple. (and we don't even have the zoo to motivate anymore since our membership expired)

Fun in the Sun

We have had a lot of fun playing outside. Yesterday was David's half day, which means Rebecca had no Pre-K as well. They loved playing in the sand box from lunch time until dinner time! They love that thing; and although I am cringing at all the sand they track around, I love seeing them play like this. We just put sand in it after a couple years of time-out from sand play.



When they aren't playing in sand, they are running around exploring together. Here it looks like they formed a train. We bought the sand because the children had picked up digging holes in the yard... I don't think the landlord would like that.

I wanted to capture a picture with all my children together, it was a little harder than I thought. Here are a few of the best that I could capture.

Easter!

I meant to share just Easter, but I realized I haven't shared in awhile. We have had fun the past couple of Fridays/Saturdays playing in water as our temperature are up in the 90s. Our neighbors have started joining us and having water fun in the shade of our front yards! They had fun playing with the cones as buckets. David even found he could put the cone on his head with water in it and the water wouldn't come out until he lifted it!

Lifting the cone off, water falling down.

Water and rocks, a fun combination.

Andrew has grown so much and is almost to the point of squirming around.

Rebecca is so excited to wear her shrinky-dinks.

Benji wanted a picture taken of him too. (I don't know why it turned, probably because I loaded so many pictures...)

Easter egg coloring

I love my clown face!

David's cute eggs.

Everyone enjoyed helping Benji color his eggs.

In our family we have a tradition of hiding the Easter baskets and going on a search in the morning. Can you see one of the hidden baskets?

There it is!

While Benji explores his Rebecca looks for hers.

She found hers! By the way, the pile of stuff is optional get-rid-of things.

Exploring her basket while giving ideas to David on where to look.

By recommendation of Rebecca, David looked in his back-pack to find his basket!

Mmmm, the chocolate bunny!

Enjoying the treats.

David devouring his treats. By the way, by the end of the day all the candy in Rebecca and David's baskets was gone! Clark and I were very surprised... Perhaps we will request less candy from the Easter Bunny next year. (especially since Benji threw-up in the middle of the night from the lot of it!)

Andrew's first Easter. No basket or treats for you! Mommy ate enough to make his tummy upset.

Happy Easter to all!

Strong little Man

My cousin's little boy had heart surgery 21 days ago and we have been praying with all our hearts for him. We are so thankful to see him doing so well. What an amazing family this is. Here is the first hand information:

http://thewheatleyroundup.blogspot.com/

General Conference

This last weekend was General Conference. This year we set up our little tent, copied some work-pages from the computer, and had a few containers of treats at the ready. The children picked words to listen for, for example: church, and every time they heard the word they were rewarded with one of the treats. This worked quite well, and the children listened intently!

Toward the end the children got restless, then we remembered the BINGO papers we had printed off and switched our treat reward to that game. The children had fun and found all the words on their papers!

My first General Conference!

Pre-mid-post Conference activities.

Rolly-polly eyes