March '17- Week 2- Raking, Letter Ww, Games at D&L's, Aquarium, McK Braces, Letter Xx

Ben decided to write a letter to the Easter Bunny.  Can you tell his new obsession?  POKEMON!  

Wednesday Anna had a play date with Lizzy.  I took dinner that night to my friend Kylee who had surgery.  I had a conference call with my family that night.  

Thursday I hosted preschool and taught about the letter Ww.  We painted with watercolors and had waffles for snack.  

After preschool we packed a lunch and headed to a picnic in the park with cousins.  When we got home the weather was so beautiful I decided to do some yardwork-- raking pine needles!  Thank goodness for gravity helping on the downhill!  Our neighbor Jerry came by as he was going on a walk with his great granddaughter Chloe, and he was nice enough to take Ben with him.  

We went to Lowe's as a family that night and after family prayers Bethany said a new word, "Amen!" :)  

Friday I hosted preschool again.  We made a web, matched letter Ww things, ate gummy worms and wafers for a snack (which ended up being a total flop, the kids didn't really like them at all), and played "Where's Waldo" with Lego guys.  

We babysat cousins Clara and Henry in the afternoon and the boys drew and cut out Pokemon balls.  I also took a picture of Bethany's weird thing under her tongue.  It kind of looks like a canker, but it's really white.  She's had it one time before and it kind of coincides when she has a cold.  She doesn't seem to be bothered by it.  Oh well.  

After school McKenna had Hannah Hilbig over to play.  For dinner we went to Chick fil a so the kids could play at the play place.  After the kids were in bed I sanded and primed our closet doors and Dan painted the window and door trim.  

Saturday Ben and Anna had open gym.  After that, I took Ben and Bennet and Jordan to a classmate's birthday party at the Ogden Nature Center.  McKenna went to a couple stores with Dan and then worked on her book report.  We played Barbies in the afternoon while Dan attended a youth convert baptism for Jaron Nelson.  McKenna played with Camille and we painted doors in the garage and did a second coat on the trim inside.

We had a laundry folding party that night and painted a second coat on the doors.  Phew!  Busy busy day! 

Sunday snuggles with blankets!

Dan and I split the time with Bethany in Nursery during church.  We had Adam over for dinner then went to Dave and Laurie's for games and popcorn.  

This was Bethany during singing time-- "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Before Adam came over, Ben set the table all by himself and unprompted and the girls loved playing dress-up together.  

Monday the kids didn't have school because it was a make-up snow day they hadn't used yet.  So we met Brynn and Swa at the Sea Quest Aquarium.  

In the afternoon we took Henry and Desi to the park with us.  Later the Lewises joined us.  For family home eveing that night we talked about the birth and betrayal of Jesus. After kids were in bed I worked on taping off for painting and Dan worked on changing out our outlets and switches.  Unfortunately we hit a road bump when Dan was doing the LAST outlet by our sink which was supposed to be GFCI.  He installed it wrong the first time and as he was trying to do it right the second time there was a screw that was being super difficult to go in.  Anyway, long story short, we had to turn the power off the whole house because we couldn't find the circuit that outlet was on.   And because the kid's nightlight was off, McKenna woke up (and woke up Ben) and had some major anxiety again and couldn't fall back to sleep till 1am!  

Tuesday morning we had to wake up early for an orthodontist appointment for McKenna to get her braces on!  6 weeks with the pallet expander already helped a ton to fix her cross bite!  She said it didn't even hurt and she actually felt pretty happy giddy about her new smile. :) Too bad it made her look super grown up! 

Anna learned about the letter Xx at preschool.  I love the eXcited faces at the bottom.  

I also went visiting teaching that morning and then went to a park in Woods Cross with Brynn, Swa, and Adam.  

Here's some cute Pokemon coloring from Ben! 

That night I did more taping off and knocked down some of the texturing "peaks."   We also managed to paint the first coat of gray pain on the walls that night!