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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Week In Review October 8th - 14th

Last week, after Katlynn got home from school, Dad was so proud of her that he couldn't wait to give her the new toy he bought her. He told her how proud he was of her and how she was doing at school and that we had a surprise for her in the garage. It was awesome to see her anticipation of what could be in there. When he finally opened up the garage, as you can see in the photo, she was completely surprised!

She loves it! She rides all around the yard pretending that she really is driving some where, she's got tons "mommy" of stuff in it, and we have had to charge it up twice already. She's so funny, in the morning she will get herself dressed without being told and come find me to ask me, "Mom, can I go play outside?" As if this kid had a problem with going outside in the first place...


On Monday night while playing in the back yard while I was feeding, she made her first mud pie and lucky for me minus the mud. It was just dirt. But she had fun as you can tell from how dirty she got.


Finally, on Saturday, we went to the Trade Days craft show. We went with my friend Jennifer and her 3 children. Katlynn is sandwiched in age between the two older ones. Her and Jentri were inseparable and called each other sister while holding hands the whole time. After a long day of following their mothers around, they were allowed to ride the miniature ponies. They all loved it and not a one of them were scared.

At one point during the day, the girls ask me if Jentri can come over to our house to play when we get home. Both Jennifer and I said "no" (for numerous reasons, we are not just) and the girls just cried and cried. Later, once the crying stopped, I felt bad and remembered the days when I wanted to spend just a little more time with my friends. However, I don't remember doing this at 2 1/2 & 3!


Well that is all for this week. I hope everyone enjoys!

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Week in Review October 1st - 7th

Monday - This week we started using a closet clothes sorter that has slots for each day of the week. We filled it up on Sunday and on Monday morning Katlynn was able to go in her closet, pick out what she wanted to wear, and get completely dressed all on her own (only being told once) including shoes and socks. Here is what she picked out on Monday.


Thursday - Katlynn went to the dentist for the first time. Shelly let her sit in the chair and counted her teeth. She said that we have been doing a great job on brushing. Katlynn then got a SpongeBob toothbrush, pencil, sticker, and little toy for being such a big girl. Next time we go, they will actually clean her teeth. They just want kids to warm up to the idea of being at the dentist. She then sat quietly in the doorway while I got my teeth cleaned. Way to go Katlynn!


Friday - At school, they had Blessing of the Animals day. Everyone at school had their parents bring out one animal to the play ground to have them blessed. It is to teach the kids that animals are God's gift too and that they need to love and care for them. This being our first year, we were quite amazed! There were two horses, a full sized goat, iguana, birds, mice, turtles, cats (and a hairless one at that!), fish, and of course any kind of dog that you could imagine. We brought Sandy, our most behaved dog. ha. Katlynn had so much fun showing off her dog and looking at all the other kid's pets. When it was time for the kids to go back in and the parents to leave, Katlynn did fantastic. Two other boys held onto their daddy's leg and cried but not our girl. While holding on to the other kids hands, she turned around to wave and yelled out, "Bye Dad!". Wow, so much different from the first week of school. I know that she loves it there.




I hope you all enjoyed this week in review as much as we did. This coming week they will be taking class photos and I can't wait to see how they turn out. Katlynn is also selling raffle tickets for their Kooky Karnival for $1 a piece and their are some really great prizes. Best of all, you don't have to be present to win. It is so cute seeing her ask people if they want to buy some tickets and collect the money. Schools gotta start them young now, ha.

Monday, October 01, 2007

Embroidery Lesson 1


Audrey came across a site that has 6 weeks of lessons for learning how to embroider and this is something I have always wanted to try my hand at. So I thought I would invite anyone else who is interested to do the lessons along with me. I will post my finished "homework" on Monday's so that everyone can see how things are going.
Lesson 1