Play Play Play

This last week was a pretty normal week...which was nice.  Our little friends came to play in the morning on Monday.  We walked down to get Lauren and Jared.  I turned Connor's 3day food diary into the health center...they are going to give it to a nutritionist to analyze.  We also caught up on all our usual stuff.  We also heard the good news that Lindsay had her baby.

Mom said I could finish it off!

Tuesday morning they had the Bean Museum come visit preschool.  They had a fun time.  The guy who did they show brought 4 animals.  A tarantula, a snake (cuddles), a stuffed skunk, and a tortoise.  The tortoise was huge..he weighed 50 pounds.  We played outside for a long while Tuesday afternoon.

Bradley wouldn't touch any of the animals (I did make him touch the tortoise, but he wasn't happy about it).  He was trying to back up but he was pinned by the wall and me.  Connor touched them all.

Wednesday Bradley Connor and I went to the library for story time. Then picked up Lauren and went straight to ready to learn.  They are starting something new the half hour before and feed us all lunch and we got a free book for going to it too....and a book for staying for ready to learn too.  Wednesday night we went to see some science fair projects at the Harmon building. It was a regional science fair I think.  We saw the middle school and high school projects....we just couldn't make it the night before for the elementary projects.

Thursday morning we had to have them come fix our heater.  The blower wasn't coming on and Alan had tried to fix it the night before some.  Our heater was off all night, but luckily is didn't get too cold inside.  Alan tried one more time in the morning...and got it working before the guy came.  He looked at it and changed the filter and said if it has any more problems to call.  Thursday Lauren and Jared both had early release.  It was a lot colder, but once they got their homework done I agreed to go out and play for a little while.  We were out a lot longer than I thought we would be.  I think that Thursday was the night Alan got our taxes done.

Bradley and Connor playing while waiting for the guy to come check out the heater....You can see stuff pulled out in the kitchen so he could get to the heater.

They stacked up egg cartons and then took turns throwing balls to knock them over.  They both had a great time!

Jared rigged this swing up all by himself.  All I did was move the rope closer to the trunk.  Here there is no seat just rope.

They decided that just rope didn't feel so good, so they tried a BYU ice cream bucket lid.  They couldn't get it to work very well, so then they tried an egg carton.  This actually worked pretty well.

Then they tried a frying pan.  Jared finally found this board and it worked great!  Everyone wanted a turn to try it out.

Friday I went and helped in Jared's class. It started snowing while I was there and I had to scrape the car off when I left.  Once Jared got home we just played inside all afternoon.  Jeff and Elizabeth babysat for us in the evening so we could go to our ward activity and then do a little shopping.

Playing once when he was in his seat.  He had it like this all by himself...I did have to put it back for the picture.

Saturday we woke up to more snow.  After getting some work done in the morning we went out and played in it a little.  I went and did some shopping in the afternoon...church shoes for me (my old ones had holes and got cold walking in snow), shoes for Connor, a quick stop at Deseret Book, and Winco, and got gas.  They were eating dinner when I got home.  It sounded like they all had a fun afternoon.

Today was a good.day.  I did singing time today.  We just reviewed the songs for the program.  I took a couple of videos to sing along with.  Well first we talked about dynamics...crescendos, diminuendos, pianissimo,  fortissimo (and all the ones in between).  Then as we sang along with the tabernacle choir to My Heavenly Father Loves Me we lifted our hands up as they sang louder and put the down as they sang softer.  Then we Practiced singing If the Savior stood beside me changing our dynamics. Then we sang along with a video for that song.  We had a little time to start learning Did Jesus Really Live Again? And a couple other songs too.  Our home teachers stopped by after church.  Alan and I both spent a little time plying on the violin.  It was a good day.  My kids also informed me that today is my half birthday!  Of course Jared's was yesterday.

When Connor was all ready for church Alan said he looked like he was ready to go to school...so Jared got him a backpack and his lunch box.

He looks big with his boat shoes.  (They are just a little big..like can't feel his toes in them big.  I measured his feet before I left, so they should be the right size.  At least he doesn't trip in them.)

We still don't have the test results back for Connor.  I asked when I was in there on Monday and she said she would give it to the doctor on Tuesday (the only day that pediatrician is at the health center).  We never heard from them though.  This week should be another great week !