Wednesday, February 1, 2012

some January play-learning fun!

so what have we been doing on the rainiest-coldest month of the year? and when the city's population doubles or triples and when we get out, we have to trek through the cold rain to our desired over crowded destination, yes we haven't been really excited about this month :) but tried to make the most of it! Evie Joy loves lacing! We got these awhile back from our friends Karissa and Alison but recently she has really been able to lace them all on and off! More recently they sent us some lacing cards and she loves doing them as well! (Also please note the common theme that Evie Joy loves wearing her footed pj's - she has many beautiful clothes but she is very stubborn everyday to wear her pj's so we use them as her 2nd layer of 3 or 4 layers when we go out :))


we loved this moment above- they were "cooking" together!


And below "praying" together! super sweet and super rare- they fight a lot these days.






size sorting "Nests" for the Letter N




I restocked our corn, rice and beans for playing so we have been enjoying playing with them the past few weeks!





Oh yes, and this day...well Evie Joy (in another set of pj's) kept asking to watch Thomas- we hadn't watched Thomas for awhile so i put a show on and we set up some tracks and kept adding tunnels and McQueen and Jesus' stable...it was a fun few hours of playing on a rainy day for us!




blocks...last week was the week of blocks! hours a day we created and re-created so many interesting things with our blocks. Mommy and Daddy and cars and cakes...One of my favorites is Evie Joy made a blue block Daddy and ran from it because it was going to spank her :) and the real Daddy was not even home :) cracks me up!




and please notice her football pj's this day!


oh yes and below- this day Evie Joy refused to take a nap. She received several spankings from Daddy who was here during nap time that day and still did not nap :( so after hearing her yell for me to come look at her, i finally did- she was dressed like this saying she was "Darby" and the lei was her underwear :) She is all about putting her "underwear" on these days- she has used a rope, a basket, i forget what else right now, but non-conventional items for "underwear"


And you can see on the table in front of EJ the verses on a 4x6 paper. We love First Look Preschool Curriculum for memorizing verses. They have actions for us to practice so the kids love to have Circle Time and practice verses :) And we still love our Magic Erase board bought at a yard sale with cousin Chanse for 1 dollar!


Josiah is working on his new pattern pictures from Alison and Karissa! Also loving these! We've tried doing some other things for patterns but these are definitely more fun for Jo and EJ!







Josiah and his 2 kuai letters! love them! and his new scissors he loves from Ali & K! They sent these little boxes with each of their names on and inside they have a school pencil, colored pencils, crayons and Jo scissors- they kids get so excited using their personal boxes!



Josiah has been loving his new LeapFrog videos about Math so he has been all about counting and pretending he is adding and subtracting like Tad & Lily :)



Jo was using the letters with his Word World cards to make words!



Evie Joy so proud of her pattern pictures- she calls this one "Brother"!




So we've been learning a lot :) Trying to survive January! WE do get out everyday at least once but it is usually raining so we don't have a lot of pics from our outing adventures :)


1 comment:

Mimi and Poppe Rymer said...

Wow!! It sure looks like you are having lots of fun and learning lots of things all while hanging out in PJ's!!! Wish I could work in PJ's sometimes!!!