PRESCHOOL
Nathan was excited to have Preschool at our house this month. The kids did the 3 Little Kittens for their Nursery Rhyme, so we acted out the poem. The kids had fun eating pie with their mittens (socks) on their hands. (In this picture, taken the night before preschool, they are holding ghosts they made by filling nitrile gloves with water--a craft they came up with all by themselves.)
They had to wash the mittens afterward.
And of course, hang them up to dry.
We also did a field trip to the police station. Nathan enjoyed seeing the cool police cars.
JOG-A-THON
Maddy did the jog-a-thon and was a great runner. She was just 2 laps shy of the record for the most laps run by a Kindergartener this year.
Nathan had fun running with Maddy. He also was excited to meet one of his favorite characters--Clifford!
SOCCER
The kids finished up their last month of soccer. Here is Maddy doing drills.
Nathan had a lot of fun with the other boys on his team and having his dad as the assistant coach.
Abby had an excellent coach that helped teach her the basics of playing soccer.
HALLOWEEN FUN
We took a trip to Country Mercantile for our family Halloween outing.
Jared with our 3 little pumpkins.
We enjoyed the kid straw bale maze and the corn maze which was a little more challenging for the taller members of the family.
The kids also had fun climbing to the top of a giant straw bale pyramid.
Maddy riding on the carousel.
Nathan liked all the big pumpkins.
Nathan kept bumping into his sisters' cars to make them go faster.
The kids think it's lame that I don't decorate much for Halloween, so they decided to remedy the situation by making lots of Halloween decorations for our home.
Here are a few more. I told Jared that in our next house we need an entire wall for me to display all their crafts.
Here are the kids ready to go trick or treating with the new Halloween pillowcases I sewed for them.
Maddy was Rapunzel.
Nathan was a knight in shining armor.
Abby decided to be Merida from the movie Brave.
HOMESCHOOL
Abby was learning about money in homeschool this month, so she decided to set up a store in her room. She called it Kid World.
Abby labeled toys with price tags and worked as the cashier when Maddy and Nathan came to buy toys with their play money.
The kids decided to make their own kites one afternoon; here they are trying to make them fly.
