The Past Couple Weeks

So we haven't been up to much lately really, a couple weekends ago my parents took the kids over night for us so we could do some cleaning and finish packing up all our Christmas stuff. We organized and moved things around in our dining room and it's so nice! I have all of Elizabeth's school and art stuff organized, it's made life so much easier! That Saturday we went up to my parent's and Tony helped my dad finish putting in the wood floor in their entry. Then Tony and I went and saw the Muppet Movie which we liked alright, at times it was a bit too cheesy for me though. During the week it's just been the same old same old. Last week Elizabeth's school lesson was on penguins, she really enjoyed learning about them, she told me Friday, "I like penguins, even if they can't fly! Cause they love to swim like me!!" She's also gaining leaps and bounds with her sight words, she knows over 50! And reading is in turn becoming easier and more fluid for her. I must admit it's a little creepy to see my 3 year old pick up a book and start reading it...don't get me wrong I'm super proud of her! It's just weird to see someone so little reading! She's doing better in math too, and actually kind of enjoys it. She LOVES Science, it indulges her natural curiosity and she still hates writing, but I really think it's because it's all but impossible for a right handed person(me)to help a left handed child(Liz)to write cause where I push the pencil she wants to pull the pencil and vice versa. Ah well she'll get it eventually, right? I've broken her school time into two parts now, in the morning we have the everyday learning stuff (calendar, weather, flash cards, Spanish and ASL) and then the days lesson, then in the afternoon it's workbook time....which is not her favorite time, worksheets mean writing! So lately she's been coming up with the best excuses of why we can't do workbooks. For example she's told me her hands were broken..asleep, and just not working. She'll take as long as possible to eat her snack hoping it'll dip into the time she has to workbooks. She has even tried hiding the workbooks and/or her pencils!! Don't misunderstand she loves doing her workbooks, she's always up for a mental challenge she just does not want to have to write in them...what's a mom-teacher to do?! Elizabeth has been having lots of fun with her easel, and art supplies. Her favorite is painting but as it takes prep and clean-up work she most often uses the dry erase board for her masterpieces. Her latest kick is drawing people and smiley faces. Devin's new thing is using Elizabeth's little princess table as a walker...despite the fact that he has a perfectly good walker toy we got him not long ago! He's getting pretty good at pulling himself up to things and has gotten up one stair and would do more, but I won't let him for obvious reasons. Last Saturday after doing our needed shopping(I love that both kids outgrew their socks at the same time) we went up to my parents house this time to help them move couches downstairs to make way for their new sectional hopefully arriving tomorrow! Then the great room remodel should be complete!! We had a great dinner with them and Eric and Jen. Oh I should mention that we've had a slight calling change in our ward...we're now in the nursery every other week or so. Two Sunday's ago was our first week in there and man is it FUN!! Yesterday we got to go to Relief Society/Priesthood for the first time in over a year! Devin came with me and actually did pretty good! I didn't have to take him out once! Elizabeth is doing really well in Sunbeams! Her teacher told us that she's great in class and knows all the answers(I just hope she's letting other kids get two sense in) and the singing time leader told me yesterday that she sings all the songs, no surprise to me! She loves to sing!! And the best news of all...Devin is finally sleeping in the kids room with Elizabeth!! We just bit the bullet last Sunday and put them to bed together and they did really good all week! Elizabeth loves having her brother in there with her, she goes down to bed so much easier now!! And Tony and I love not having to walk on eggshells at night and in the morning, worrying about waking him up! Well that's about it for now! Enjoy the pictures and videos!



Devin tried really hard to just climb over his activity table to get to those dvds! Luckily he didn't succeed!!

Shows over...turn the tv off!



Man, math can really take it out of ya!!

Devin wasn't so sure about Elizabeth's driving skills...I don't blame him!



Devin found Elizabeth's treat she left on her table...taking candy from this baby was sooo NOT easy!!


Devin and Elizabeth laughing at the bottle Devin put in his raceway, those two have such a good time together sometimes!!


Elizabeth making Devin laugh like only she can!


Devin and his new trick of walking with Elizabeth's table(sorry about Cheers being on in the background I didn't have time to pause it. Ya gotta capture the moment while it's there!)