Santa!

Here are the kids visiting with Santa! William told Santa he would like a playm0b!l gold mine set, Amelia wants a Dora mermaid (awesome! She already has one) an Gemma wanted her 2 front teeth (again, awesome! She already has them!).

Cheese!

We took the kids to see Santa this week- see the snow? William could not be talked out of the Spider-Man shirt. Red is one of Santa's favorite colors after all!

Amelia admires Christmas tree

It's so beautiful mama!

From home

This is the picture text I received at work this week. Included was the message that our Gemma had crawled across the entire length of the house to get to this location. She was working so hard, she crawled out of her pants! Who needs baby toys?

Um..,what?

This should not be possible. No.

I know it doesn't look like it...

But this baby is mad at me. She is enjoying some exploring of finger foods. She has a few puffs (quick dissolve baby food) on her tray and she is very angry because she can't figure out how to put them in her mouth. If you look carefully, you will see she has a spoon in each hand. If she wants to put a puff in her mouth, she would have to put down a spoon. And she doesn't want to. So, she cries and cries. Just like a baby.

It's a good thing I took pity on her (after taking her picture) and helped her out!

Dinosaurs

Every week kindergarten is studying a new letter. They learn to write the letter and talk about the sounds it make, etc.

As part of William's homework every week, he has to come up with 5-10 words that begin with this letter and then draw a picture to illustrate (which is separate from the letter assignment featured here other times). As part of the directions, the teacher has asked parents to let students work on this independently. In particular, we aren't to help with spelling.

William sat at the kitchen table this last week, working on his letter 'P' homework page. It should be a simple task for him to come up with 10 words starting with 'P', but William has taken it to the next step by requiring himself (keep in mind this is not part of the actual assignment, this is something William is putting it upon himself) to have every single word be related to dinosaurs.

So, on this particular evening, William had come up with parasaurolophus and pachycephalosaurus. He was asking John for help with coming up with more dino names. John reminded William that William needed to try to come up with the words on his own.

Which is when Amelia piped up and said "how about pterodactyl?"

William and John looked at her with jaws dropped.

So, she helped them out by explaining to them "pterodactyl does start with P. It is just a silent P.".

So he did. See below. The assignment was then lovingly transported in his backpack TO school and crumpled up to come back home by the student himself.

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