Some Birthday Photos with Haley

Haley graciously offered to take Katie out for a little 4th Birthday photo shoot. They turned out great! Thanks Haley!

Kindermusik

A friend of ours from church teaches Kindermusik classes in her home. We have enrolled Katie in them for the past few classes. She has loved them! Not only are the classes loads of fun, but we get to take a music CD and an instrument home. The girls love to listen to their CD as they play in the playroom. It has been great to see Katie open up in this type of environment. They just had their last class for the school year so I had to take some pictures.
Dressing Silly Mouse!
Emily was the official instrument taste tester!
Cole, Kate's classmate
No sitting still in this class!

Music with scarves

Thanks Stefanie for a wonderful class!

Fun and Fitness Day

I remember days like this! Fun and Fitness Day in Kindergarten!

Play dough Letters?

I love how Katie thinks outside the box! I can't wait to see where her creativity takes her. I have been trying to teach her her ABC's. It is a little bit of new ground for me because I swear I never taught Abby, she must have learned them through osmosis. So, how to teach Kate? We have tried several things. Recently I thought, let's make letters out of play dough. I gave her some and asked her to make an A. This turned out to be a little harder than I thought. She whipped up her letter and with great excitement said, "Mommy, look at my A!" Hmmm, how to respond? I just had to chuckle and take a picture! Good job Kate!


Let's just say this activity quickly turned into pizza making!

Fun in a Green Bath!

We gave the girls these bath dies in their Christmas stockings. They enjoyed their green bath!

Superstition Farm

Abby has the sweetest Kindergarten class. Just 12 kids and they are all wonderful. Every couple of weeks, the moms, kids, and siblings get together for a play date. It has been a lot of fun getting to know the moms and letting the kids play. There have been lots of park dates and a couple of fun event dates. This particular day we went to a nearby dairy farm. They talked with the kids about life on a dairy farm, gave a hayride tour, let the kids pet some animals in a little petting zoo part, gave them some flavored milk, and let them jump in this big pit filled with cotton. It was quite an adventure for them and they loved it!
Abby and Kate enjoying the hayride.

Abby feeding the animals
Katie wasn't too into feeding the animals. In fact the only animals she would even go near were the dog and the bunny!



The Kindergarten Clan

She absolutely melts my heart!

There is something about this little Emily Jane! She is just too cute for words!