Who, Who... Who's sleeping?

In preschool this week we learned about owls. Did you know owls can't move their eyes? That is why they have to turn their whole head and where the myth comes from that they can spin their head all the way around. Ha! Anyways. We had a lot of fun making our own owls with oil pastels and scratching a feathery look into them. Boy did that make a mess!

Then we started painting tp rolls into owls but they were still wet and we ran out of time to finish them.  Next week.

We had three stowaways join us for preschool this week.  Lily and her two friends didn't have school today.  Thanks to their mom's help I was able to include them.  It was a lot of fun.  Lily enjoyed "helping" me teach by sharing what she knew about owls and writing "E+" on some of the kids papers.  She did do a great job reading the story "Owl Babies" and getting the kids excited to dance like owls.

The older girls did complete their tp owls... I think they turned out adorable!

After preschool and clean up, I was exhausted so I sent Isaac to nap and Lily to read. Well, I found Lily asleep like this an hour later.  Soo cute!  We both had a good laugh about it after I took the picture and woke her up!

Lily's Great Improvement

Here is Lily's report card!

I love the part about Lily's positive attitude about learning!

Happy Halloween

We had a fun time celebrating Halloween!

First off, Preschool Halloween Party! The kids all looked awesome in their costumes. We made baby food jar pumpkin candle holders and SLIME! We did the monster mash and read some cute Halloween stories.

On Sunday night we finally got to carve pumpkins together. Lily did really well coming up with her own design and doing much of the carving herself.

On Halloween I got to go into Lily's classroom and do an art project with the kids. I dyed pumpkin seeds lots of colors and the kids made mosaic tiles with them. It was a lot of fun.

You can see all the pictures for her school party here. Lily said bobbing for apples was really tough!

After school, I took the kids to an outdoor mall that was having trick or treating.  I entered Isaac into a costume contest put on by the local radio station.  He won first place!  I was pretty excited, since I made his costume and everything!  We won a $100 gift card to Whole Foods Market and a Tom and Jerry DVD (which he was excited about).  Lily had a hard time with the fact that she didn't get to get on the stage with us, she didn't win, and everyone was commenting on how cute Isaac's costume was.  :)  It was a nice lesson in supporting her brother.  After trick or treating there, Tommy took them to a few houses in our neighborhood and then we called it at night.  Turned out lights out after 4 or 5 groups of teenagers around 8:30. ;)