The biggest news in our house this week is that Oak has her first loose tooth! She was brushing her teeth before bed and started crying, I ran in to check on her and she said that her toothbrush hurt her tooth. I check, and sure enough she has a loose tooth. She went from crying to giggling. It was pretty cute.
Then wednesday was the first day of school for us. We started the day with our traditional pancakes. We have been doing this since Mac started going to preschool I think.
Then we did our traditional signs, something we have done every year also.
The kids helped me paint chalk board paint on this cupboard door to make it a sign.
This isn't what I had planned for school, but they really wanted to write stories. Mac didn't have the patience last year to write more than a couple of sentences. But he sat down and worked really hard on a story. Then through out the day he wanted to write more. This year we are trying these cute little tin pencil boxes to keep their pencils, glue and scissors in for our school day. They can only use the stuff in it for school and it gets put back in the their school crates with their curriculum when we are done with school. They loose pencils and ruin glue and wander off with scissors too much and so I am hoping this helps.
It was also the first day for them going to the homeschool center that the kids are registered with. We carpool with our friends so this is Oak walking in with her friend. Her friend in the yellow is a year older than Oak. Oak is seriously a giant.
I had one egg left in a carton and Oak claimed it as hers for the day. I told her she could if she kept it in the kitchen and if she threw it away at the end of the day. Me allowing this proved to be the wrong way to go. She became so attached that she threw quite the fit before bed when it had to be thrown away. Lots of sobs then anger and she threw it at the garbage can and made a huge mess. It was not pretty. I guess I won't be letting her do that again.
My MIL is awesome. She knew that we finished listening to these two books on CD and so she knew we wanted to watch the movies now and sent them to the kids. She's awesome like that.
Trying to be more prepared for our school day I am going to try to get up early and read my scriptures and prepare our daily lessons.
Saturday was the Tulelake fair. It is the biggest fair close to us. And it is really just the right size. It isn't as small as the county fair here and it isn't as big as the county fair where we grew up so we both like the size of it alot. We love that there are free pony rides.
We kept running into our old Bishop's family at the fair. We probably ran into them five or more times. We also saw a ton of other people we knew, from our ward, Stake, homeschool, and the community. They fair also does a parade, so thats what we are doing here, waiting for the parade to start.
When we got home from the fair, the kids got right to work on their imaginations and dress up.
For the last couple of week the midgies have been BAD. It wasn't bearable to go outside. Getting into the car was crazy. So the kids just haven't played out side much in the last couple of weeks. But we noticed that the midgies are pretty much gone for the most part. So I kicked the kids outside. They were making guns out of sticks. ug.
We also found a really great place for a hideout and we will start clearing it out and making it safe for the kids to play in. It's perfect.
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