Ward Christmas Party

The primary kids sang a couple songs are the Christmas Party. Here's a short clip. At the end Rachel turned around and watched the older kids sing. The two little girls on either side of her are her friends from Sunbeams. The one to Rachel's left she was insistent that we sit next to during dinner. And then they ran around and played for the rest of the evening. She has her own circle of friends and a social life is beginning.

After the song, Santa arrived and the girls got to visit with him again.

Rachel explained exactly what she wanted. The barbie doll that comes with 3 puppies and 1 mommy dog. (She asked the first Santa we saw for the same thing. Can you guess what's going to be under the Christmas Tree this year?)

Ashley was telling him that she's 2.

Penguin Preschool

Math: Feed the Penguin

Activity: Can you carry an "egg" on your feet like an Emperor Penguin? Answer- NO.

Science: Will it slide on ice?

This then just turned into an ice rink for the My Little Ponies

Art: Potato Print Penguins

Game: Iceberg Hop

Rachel's favorite part was learning how mommy penguins pre-chew a chick's food. She called me back into her room one evening after tucking her in and showed me with her Lamby how babies eat. The girls are still waddling around, feeding the baby penguin, jumping on icebergs, and playing with the frozen "pond". They have found a new favorite animal.

Remind me, where do we live again?

Me: Girls, what are you doing?
Rachel: I'm teaching Ashley how to surf.
Ashley: Yeah!
Rachel: First, you put one foot here and your other foot goes here.

We do live in Vegas, a dry desert with no ocean near it, right? Where do they come up with this?

Santa Visit

They were so cute. Rachel held Ashley's hand and there were no tears! They both talked to him and told him what Rachel wanted for Christmas. Afterward, Ashley said that "Rachel help me be brave."

Sorry

Just a note to anyone who is reading this blog lately and if you have noticed all the spelling and grammar issues in it, I apologize. Please don't hold it against me and I'm sorry if it's painful to read. I'll try to be better and not rush through them, but no promises this month as I just try to keep up.

Happy Birthday Me

I turned 29! Oh my one more year until 3-0. I'm going to be my mother's age; I'm getting old. But that's not until next year. For now, I have one more good year left in my 20's and my family started it out great!

Mike stayed home from football and we went to a breakfast buffet. I took Rachel to a bowling party and just had to sit there and cheer the kids on, very relaxing compared to the last couple of parties (Rachel's and Ashley's). The girls took a nap and then they made me a present and then when shopping for a present with daddy. We picked up some pizza and after we ate, it was ice cream cake time. Ice cream cake is my favorite type of birthday cake, preferably Carvel, but Dairy Queen is making it's way to the top with the fudge layer in it and since it's within walking distance that's what we got: a M&M Blizzard Cake.

Then it was time for presents. You wouldn't know by the pile of gifts that it was just Mike and the girls. The girls made me beaded rings and a bracelet. I also got a banana tree, a new "waterfall"-scented candle, hot cocoa Christmas mugs and finally a chocolate melting pot. And now I'm craving chocolate covered peanuts. That may have been dangerous to buy me. I finished the night of by relaxing, a birthday doesn't get much better when you have no expectations. I may have to have no expectations next year!

Family Theme Preschool

We learned all about families and how their are many types. We made our own family tree with an apple representing each of member in our family. If you look closely you will see 5 apples. The included Duchess.

We used little people to count the number of people in different families and compared the size of them.

Rachel drew a picture and told me about it. She had been asked to draw a picture of doing something fun as a family. I don't know if you can read the story but it's a picture of towers made out of the blocks. When asked where the family was she said that I was off of the page to the right taking a picture and that the rest of them were of the page to the left