Daddy gets to play

Mark took half the day off and spent it with us and trying to close on our current home (tons of paperwork).

We had a good day and a good Valentine's Day night.

Organization of Alphabet

With their curriculum they are to learn a different letter each week.  So to make it a little bit more exciting since they're already reading and know their letters, I have them organize pictures into different letter categories.  They really like it and Aliana needs to do it to.  She's working on the sounds to what the letters say.

They posed themselves ;-)

Valentine Crafts

The kids were to paste together their different colors and shapes of hearts, then thread their yarn around it and finally come up with something about love.  Each child came up with something different with NO help from me....really, I wanted to see where their mind and heart took them.  It was great to see the outcome.

Tony: I love you so much Lord that when I see you I will hug you.

Alex: Jesus Loves Me; I Love Jesus.

Aliana: God you fill my heart.  Seriously, she said that :-)

Then the next day we made Valentine Owls that said, "Whooooo loves you?"

They all cut and constructed their own bird while looking at a black & white product.  Very proud of their hand and eye coordination.

Bulbs

One of our science lessons talked about bulbs and how they grow.  Well we can grow a bulb right in water in the pantry.  This one I was excited to do just to see if it really would work.  And it did.

Here's the 1st day of the experiment.  We had to place the bulb in a dark place in water (our pantry).  The darkness resembles where the bulb would have been planted -  the ground.  Once the sprout comes through we are to put it in the sunlight, which would then resemble the spout braking through the ground.

See the little sprout coming through.

Exactly 7 days later.  I can't believe how fast a bulb grows.

I've got to take these suckers outside to the planters; there's nothing out there.

A Cold Day

Taking time to go outside even when it's cold.

I had us spinning so fast that I almost flew off.

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Happy Birthday Alex!

This was a surprise cake. 

He thought he was getting a green cake and we all lead him to believe he was right.  He wasn't allowed to see it during the development of it.  So when we starting signing "Happy Birthday" his reaction was great.

Thanks Uncle Scott, Aunt Stacy and Joey for the Cars Legos. 

They were fun to construct and play with.

Thanks Uncle Robby for the walkie talkies. 

Rob he could have cared less about the Wii game & remote after seeing your present :-)

Hanging Out

After church and out to lunch we came back home to hang out and relax before Grammy & Roger had to leave for the airport.

Aliana had Roger dressing up her babies, changing their diapers, potty training one and reading books. 

She kept him busy for awhile.  Below she laid one down and is now feeding it.

We had a good time Mom & Roger.  We can't wait to have you back!

Love you <3

Birthday Activity

Instead of a party, we like doing or seeing something new - cool activity.

For Alex's birthday activity, we went to the Ominmax theatre to see "Born Wild".  This theatre stated that it is the 2nd largest in the country, having us lay at a 30' angle back to see the screen.  You had to keep turning your head to see what was being shown. 

We just showed up at the museum and there were dinosaurs everywhere.

Out Working Hard

Everyone was at the back of the lot clearing away the brush.  We've been working on freeing one of the trees back there from a devil-like thorny wine weed that was sufficating it. 

Everyone pictched in to help even though it was so cold. 

BOYS!

Alright, I don't know why but the boys came in Aliana's room with an agenda.

They were to take turns taking a picture with me kissing them.

So, Tony's taking this one.

Now Alex.

HaHa, my turn to get eaten up. 

ABC's & Storytime with Ms. Aliana

Ft. Worth Stockyard

Grammy & Roger came to visit for Alex's 6th birthday.  So I had an activity a day to do.  This day we went up to Ft. Worth to see the cattle drive of longhorns through the street.  They do this twice a day, from one pin to another.

They loved being so close to these steers and about 20 of them.

This one came up to the fence to let us touch his horn.  He stuck it right through the fence as if that's what he wanted.

These two were off by themselves enjoying kisses or a bath....no sure, but the one on the right was enjoying it tremendously getting his horns licked.

A stagecoach, that was used long ago, was outside the museum.

Beautiful Picture!

Now onto see the cowboys' horses in the stable.

It was a fun morning.

Tractor Rides

Mark went through some tough ordeals when he purchased our first tractor.  So when the 2nd one was delivered and started up, everyone was excited and rides began in the wagon.

Can you see them out there? We absolutely LOVE our land. Thank you GOD.

Coming in to say hi.

Out again!

Outside Science Projects

We had a really nice day on a Thursday, which happens to be our Science Project day so we took it outside for the whole afternoon and accomplished (I think) 4 of them.

We made bird feeders out of pine cones, peanut butter and bird seed.

Next, the each kid had to think of a produce that had a seed within it.

I was silent and each one had there own answer, even Aliana.

Tony said strawberry, Alex said nuts and Aliana said apple.

We hung (I really) the bird feeders.