Letter B

The second week of learning letters, numbers, shapes and colors and Ella is really having fun. She loves each day to find out if we are "doing a project" and especially likes it when it involves a glue stick! This week we focused on "B", "2", circles and blue. We made a bear out of circles, made a bead necklace, made blueberry muffins, traced circle objects, made letters out of beans, found pictures of things that start with B, and did lots of coloring sheets of "B" objects. I really love getting to have the one on one time with her and she is so proud to show John what we did each day. Two letters down... lots more to go!

Sassy Pants

Ella is funny...but she may be bordering more on sassy these days. In the past week, Ella has made the following comments.

1. After coming downstairs from taking her nap.... "Mom, I TOLD you to take your jacket off earlier. Are you not obeying?"

2. As she is busying coloring a picture, I asked her what she was doing.... "Mom , stop talking. I told you to stop talking."

I usually have to bite my lip to keep from laughing, but I have a feeling we are in for some tough teenage years.

Learning Letter A

Okay, I am convinced that Ella knows more than she pretends to, but I realized that I wanted to spend more time with her really working on letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and Bible verses. So, welcome to Mommy Preschool! Each week we are going to pick things to work on and incorporate crafts, coloring, cooking and fun to reinforce the lesson. My good friend Stacy who is mom to Ella's BFF has decided to take the plunge with me and we are rotating weeks on planning the cirriculum. Week 1 we focused on the Letter A, the number 1, the color red and squares. Ella had a blast painting with apples, making a square mobile, putting together a cow made out of squares and coloring an alligator that had "A's" hidden in it. She memorized her first Bible verse and is so proud that "Daddy is so proud" of her accomplishment. I am really glad I am starting to do this because it allows me to really have one on one time with Ella where she gets to learn and we both have fun!

Our Little Ham

Audrey has turned in to quite a little ham when the camera comes out. She is such a happy baby and lights up the minute Ella comes into the room --even though a few seconds later Ella will be yanking a toy out of her hand that she claims she is "sharing" with Audrey.

I love my girls!! I am so excited that they will get the experience the joys of sisterhood like I did!

Life is Crazy...

So that means I have not had a chance to post since the summer. I have put in a few highlights over the fall, but that is about it! Here's to making 2009 a more consistent blogging experience~