Maky's Fall Field Trip

This is Farmer Ben

This is part of Makylie's adorable Preschool 4's Class.

They are grouped up and excited for their Fall field trip!
Ready to pick their pumpkins and go on a hay ride!

She has been ready for days!
The Farm has a big hay maze set up that ends with this big huge VERY fast slide.

They love it. They all go on it again, and again!

**Noah, Taylor, Clara, Ruby, Makylie (back) Aizak, Natalie, Ana

They are EXCITED!!!! Can you tell?

There are a lot of cute little picture taking opportunities.

There is a petting farm.

At the end, we saw a story about the 3 Little Pigs, with real pigs...put on by THE Farmer Ben.

And we played witness to a real true duck race!

It was kind of amazing!

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Then we got to go on a hayride.

Farmer Ben taught the kids a song....

This is a hammer,

And this is a nail....

When the wagons movin'

You keep your bottom on the bale!
The kids thought it was hilarious...and sang it the rest of the day!

These are Makylie's two friends, Clara and Ana.

Then began the hunt for the perfect pumpkin!

Makylie found the PERFECT one!

All of the kids had different ideas about perfect.

Some were fully green, some were white...some were medium sized and one was the size of a baseball.

It was so much fun!

Noah, Aizak, (back) Ana, Clara---Taylor, Natalie (back) Makylie and Ruby

Then the kids got to have orange creamsicles.

It was such a fun day.

Daddy even took the day off so that he could go with us. That meant a lot to Makylie!

As sad as I get sometimes about it,

I am so proud of my little girl who is growing up far too fast for me....

But I sure love that I get to watch it happen!

Its a Bird...Its a plane...

On October 9th Kevin and Tyler took a little trip to Payette Idaho.
(The monkey Tyler is holding, has taken many trips all over the world. Kevin takes him on his trips, and takes pictures of him at varies places and sends them via email to the kids. THEY LOVE IT!)
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Kevins grandfather lives there, and was having an 80th birthday party.
So his family went over to celebrate.
Just Kevin went, with Tyler.
The girls all stayed home.

This is Ty's cousin Elaine. She is Kevin's sister's daughter.

Ty, had never been on a plane.
It was a first flight, and he was really excited.

He even got to go in the cockpit...

They were only gone for two days, but they had a really nice time.
I think it is nice for Kevin and Ty to be able to spend some time together alone like that.
Tyler talked about it for at least a week after.

It was nice for Kevin to go see his grandfather as well.

One Brave Girl...

In October, Kevin and Ty took a little trip together.

Karman was at a preliminary debate tournament.

So Makylie and I had a girly Saturday.

It was so much fun!

We painted nails, and she picked a movie, and we made sundaes!

We pretty much did anything that she wanted to do.

That is exactly the kind of weekend I wanted to have!

So on Saturday....before her soccer game...we took a trip to the mall,

Look what we did while we were there...

Despite how it looks....she was SUPER excited! With a little scared mixed in...

She had her baby, and a stuffed animal in hand...

The lady asked her to stay still, and still that girl stayed.

The woman said she has never seen a four year old listen so well. She literally didn't move.
Then they marked her ears...

AND...

She looked like that!

They have the ability here, to do both ears at once...with two piercers.

So they do that for little ones...or anyone who requests it.

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She barely even flinched.

I expected tears.....lots of tears.

because as much as she has wanted her ears pierced for months.....

It.Still.Hurts!

But she is a brave little thing!

And she LOVES her Hello Kitty earrings!
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Then we went to her soccer game

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We ended the evening, watching Marmaduke and eating sundaes

Then painting nails, and reading books.

And starring, many many, many many times at ourselves in the mirror to see if our new earrings are just as pretty as we are sure they are!

For the record...

we spent the next day doing the same thing thing too.

"Mommy, can you take my picture...can you see my earrings?"

"Wait"

"I can't see them, take another please"

And, Little Girl,

I did it all for you!

Nature Amazes Me...

This picture is from Makylie's SPRING field trip last year, for preschool.
They went to The Farm, and got to plant pumpkin seeds and plant a teeny tiny Marigold starter.

She was very proud of herself.
Wait, what? You can't see it?

Still can't see it?
I said it was TINY!
Here she is writing her name on her stake.

BUT...
LOOK
AT
WHAT
IT
TURNED
INTO!!!!!

So now, we are in the next year of preschool.
Makylie is just about to go BACK to The Farm, to pick the pumpkins that only a few months ago, she got to help plant.
So it got me to thinking...I should post what her teeny little starter turned into.

Proud doesn't even begin to describe how she was.
She was very protective of her plant.
She watered it, and helped daddy feed it.
It was HUGE, and beautiful!

And here she is....With the October version of her little starter she was given...with the same stake that she wrote her own name on back in April.

Nature truly is beautiful!

My Soccer Star

Keeping with the norm...Ty still LOVES soccer!

We decided to put him on an actual league this year. The idea is that they start young together, and then stay together, year after year. It is meant to develop a sense of team, sportsmanship, and friendship, and to develop each child's natural skills, until they get to the age, where there are actual positions played.
This is his first year in an all boy team.
The Blue Dragons!!!
It is also the first year, that he has been on a team, with people from his school.

He is so fun to watch.
I envision that he looks a lot like Kevin back when he played.

(This was right after he scored a goal!)
He is GOOD! I know I have said it before....but he is! I mean, really really good!
Right now, they play all positions, but in time...I know he will play a forward. That is his skill set!
Every season, he starts out a little timid...to the game, and the people...
Once he figures out that he is an asset, and really remembers what he is doing, and stops being what we call "soft", meaning he plays with some aggression....
He is AWESOME!!!!!
It is sun now, because he is really learning the rules, and the "art" of the game too.
He is just starting to understand that you are supposed to play as a team...making plays, and carrying them out.
I imagine next year, will be the best season, so far, of that sort of thing...because hopefully, as skills improve all around for the kids....their love of the game will develop even more, and they will really learn to play to each others strengths...yet the fun part is, still be innocent enough to really just love the game for what it is....A GAME!


I think it will always be fun to watch the team become cohesive!

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And this last picture...
I feel like it is a futuristic picture.
I envision, seeing this exact same picture when Tyler is, say, 15.
Walking off the field, with his teammates...
Feeling like they just conquered world.
But...
Far too cool to smile at mommy with a camera.

The Boy Loves His Legos

I don't know what would happen if Legos had not been discovered around here.

So many hours have been spent building and breaking, and re-building.

Massive amounts of hand-eye coordination have been discovered.

The creativity and imagination have been worked and re-worked, and continue to develop daily.

Ty, can literally put a 700 piece lego set together in an hour.

He is amazingly fast...

And then he is so proud!

He has been trying to get into the lego magazine since his last birthday.

You build sets, and then take pictures, and send them in, and if you are lucky get featured...

It hasn't happened yet, but I can tell you how many Lego pictures I have taken...

Of

My son.....

AND his Legos.

Loves...

These kind of pictures....

Just make me smile.

Tyler can read now, like no other.

I don't even know how it happened. I blinked...and he got big. FAST.

How is my little boy, my baby boy, able to read. And do math. And function as a logical problem-solving little person.

He is smart.

SMART

And it is rubbing off.

Makylie is Smart too! In a way that just blows me away all of the time.

I am certain she will pick up reading in kindergarten. She knows all of her alphabet, she can count to about 130, and she processes logic in at least a first grade manner.

This little girl who almost literally didn't talk until she was three...is certainly making up for it now.