September 2020

Google's Then and Nows- Zane and Ivy have grown so much!

I started teaching preschool to Ivy this month, and she is LOVING it. Our first week we learned about ourselves, including our bodies, so we did a ribbon hokey-pokey:

Some emotions with chalk outside:

Making emotions on a face with playdough:

And made an "A" necklace, plus many other activities:

 Cora made a habitat diorama and report on the Arctic and the Arctic fox this month, and I was so proud of what a good job she did!

Zane and Hyrum started doing what's called huff coughing a few times during their treatments for their CF. It's very cute, because Zane keeps calling it a "hufflepuff."

Our second week of preschool, Ivy learned about Bugs! She loved our bug hunt and counting bugs in a jar activities:

For a field trip that week, we went to the Butterfly Biosphere!

Zane yelled to me one day, "Cora hit me back!"

During family scriptures one night this month we talked to the kids about how Jesus said when someone hits you, you should turn the other cheek, and how that was different from the old law that said "an eye for an eye." Zane somehow missed the message about how Jesus changed the law, because after Cora was crying in the back seat one day, Zane yelled, "Jesus said hit back!"

Color week for preschool:

Making this rainbow toast was one of her favorite activities so far, and she keeps telling me we need to do it again!

Our ward primary had an activity for the kids where they were given rocks to paint for a neighborhood rock garden. Ivy likes to find her rock every time we check the mail together:

Hyrum told me this month, "I don't want 4 kids when I'm older, they fight all the time."

One evening before bed the kids were all just sitting in this little hallway outside of their rooms like this:

I chopped off over twelve inches of hair this month! I was so ready for a change, and the shorter hair has been great!

We had workers putting in a French door to out house this month, and because of Covid, I tried to keep the kids away from where they were working, which meant the two littles got to have a picnic in Zane's room for lunch one day!

Dinosaur week at preschool! Ivy loved using a dropper to make the dinosaur eggs hatch and carefully finding some fossils in the sand!

Both Cora and Hyrum made the Gifted and Talented program at their school this month, and I'm so proud of them!

We had fun having a lunch picnic with some friends near the temple one day this month, and the kids thought it would be fun to ride each other:

Pretty temple grounds!

Once a week I play soccer with the kids in the backyard. Not everyone loves it (including me), but it's been a good thing to do since the kids can't be in sports right now due to Covid.

Ivy was eating a donut one day, but didn't finish it and then left it on the table. When she said she then wanted a cookie, Ryan told her no- she had a donut already and she could finish that, but she responded, "but it has blood inside!" It was a jelly filled donut, so we laughed and laughed about that.

Ivy also loves to say "either way."

We did the 5 Senses the last week of preschool for the month: