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Oh Momma, I don’t like that mushy stuff anymore!
Today is…Wednesday Mar 23 2011
My amazing friend showed up again this morning so that I might go Visiting Teaching.
Then she offered to take my oldest to the library with Beanie.
Did I mention she is amazing!
As Giant was getting ready to go with his friend to the library, I explained to Ettin that he was going to make muffins with me while Giant was away.
Giant left.
Ettin let out a, “Yaahooooo” and ran to the kitchen.
“I help make muffins mommy!!!”
I think this baking time with my boys is a good thing.
[Why is it so hard for me to do?!]
We measured and mixed the dry:
We measured and mixed the wet:
We mixed them both together:
Sampled:
“Its reawy good, mommy! I’m a hungy boy.”
Ettin made half-hearted attempts to help me fill the cups while he sampled the batter with gusto:
Giant came home and showed us what he did.
They made bags of squishy colour…
That they could colour and trace lines on:
Giant spent some time writing words and colouring pictures on this little bag.
He also made some maps.
Which I used as a lead-in to a gospel lesson.
We talked about how the gospel is to be carried to all nations, all the places on a map. And that we need to help the missionaries and be missionaries ourselves so that people can be blessed by the knowledge of how much Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love them:
During nap time, Giant got to watch a movie he’d picked out from the library. And while I was tempted to just let him keep going (movies are SOOO much easier than actually playing with my children myself. And they keep my boys fairly happy happily placated well drugged, too. However, it just doesn’t sit right with me!), I turned it off and hoped for the best.
It took him a few minutes to shake off the movie drug effects, but then he asked to colour.
And he spent the next hour or so tracing lines and letters and creating his own words in a dry erase activity book:
Wow. I think I need to have more faith in my boys’ ability to create and entertain themselves!
What’s Green Wednesday
Many little tomato sprouts are popping up:
and 3 cherry tomatoes are growing strong, followed by 6 teeny “early” tomatoes (all planted at the same time).
(no sign of asparagus, lavender, or hostas)
pink photo op
I had pink in my house.
I had to make the most of it…
And she had this adorable whirlwind of a hairdo I tried to capture:
Her momma had taken it out of an elastic:
which left her with some awesome curls:
he, he.
Oh, adorable! (she even let me trade her for a purple toy to match her outfit)
and then decidedly grabbed her red stop sign toy back, derisive of my colour matching attempts:
She and Galoot practiced their standing…
…which her momma tells me is the best way to get her to stay in one spot. Once standing, she is stuck. And not very happy:
But she did give me one last sweet smile:
Thank you sweet princess!
Gymnastics!
Giant’s Gymnastics!
Parents were able to enjoy a gymnastics presentation tonight as all the children in gymnastics gathered for a final presentation.
Admittedly, the image quality is not the best. These photos were taken in a large gym by a mommy sitting in the side bleachers. It wasn’t as dark as the pictures convey, but my flash just could not reach him 😉 So I have cropped, lightened, and increased the contrast so that I could show at least a fuzzy idea of what Giant’s gymnastics night looked like.
Although I’d prepped him for the idea that gymnastics would be different tonight, that lots of mommies and daddies would be there to watch, and that all the children who were learning gymnastics would be there, even I was a little overwhelmed when we arrived and they had what seemed like an hundred children grouped together on the floor doing warm-ups. Thankfully, I quickly located his friend Beanie and directed Giant to him.
Giant didn’t let go of that blessed child’s hand until the 1/2 hour of warm-ups were completed and he had to let go to do the routine.
Thank you for being such a source of strength, Beanie!
(It was also handy for me, since all I had to do to find Giant in the whirlwind of gymnasts was look for Beanie’s bright green shirt!)
The routine was fun to watch, and they put the kids through everything they learned:
Tucking in:
Jumping on a tramp:
Walking on a beam. Backwards…
…and forwards.
Swinging on the bars:
And a few other demonstrations of him somersaulting, star-jumping, and listening well.
To finish, they gave him his report card (awesome listener, good work on the various gymnastic forms, we need to work on ball throwing and catching) , and a bright blue ball (…handy).
Then, as a family, we went to DQ for a special treat to celebrate the great learning and effort that Giant (and his supporters) put into it.
Hooray! Yahoo! Yipee!