More Fall Preschool...

Apple Unit:

Picking up apples with tongs. 

Matching Letters.

Titus decided to turn my microcooker into a Johnny Apple seed hat. (all on his own)

 Apple Jacks for activities and snack!

 Apple puzzles.

Our very own Pajama day. (Just like Grace!)

Community Helpers Unit:

Nurse/Doctor Day

Counting cotton balls and qtips.

 Doctor relay. Putting on his lab coat.

Firefighter Day:

Making a fire engine snack.

We made this fire truck from a kit from Lowes our friends gave us. They did the hammering and everything.

 The instructions.

Farm Unit:

"Farmer" Relay

Put on hat & boots.

 Drive the pumpkin.

 Ride the horse.

 Collect the hay.

 Drive the tractor to the barn (across the couch of course.)

 Put the animals in the barn.

 Titus and his trust side kick, "green."

 Loading his harvest.

 Where is Titus?

 There he is!

 Feed the horse the hay.

 Put those animals in the barn.

 Mom, don't take a picture of my tractor!

 Mom, take a picture of my tractor!

 The Little Red "Hen" (or rooster) We read the story and made our own bread in the bread machine.

Lots of fun with preschool this fall. Its good I'm so behind on the blog seeing these pictures are motivating me to get started back up in February. (We are taking January off to get caught up around here.)

Backyard "Birthday" Camping

This is the second year we've done a night of fall backyard camping with our friends The Whetstones. Last year we did it to celebrate Faith & Wyatt turning four. This year we did our "birthday" camping a bit early since our October was insane this year!

This HUGE tent was Jeremy's growing up. I've heard so many stories about Old Blue it was pretty much famous. However Jeremy's description of it was a bit lacking....I knew it was canvas and was envisioning kind of like an event tent in army green. However, I agreed to try it camping one time (and then secretly figured I'd put a new modern tent on our Christmas list) However, I am happy to confess we LOVED it and adopted it quickly as our family's new memory maker. Which is much more "green" and thrifty anyway! It's most endearing quality is that it is huge. Jeremy's approximate quote, "We could adopt 10 children with this tent." Love at first sight.

We also met our play group for a night of star gazing. Although the starts were a bit lacking due to cloud cover.

That morning around the campfire Jeremy told me which little boy he thought God was choosing for our family. More about that later when I do a post updating you on our adoption journey.

Our almost 5 year olds!

The Humiston's

The Whetstone's

Logan- 3

Grace-6

Titus- 2 (and a half!)

Faith & Micah

Micah-1

Its tough being buddies when you are two....

and its wonderful being best buddies when you are two!