November 21, 2011 - Clearly Thankful

Recipe for Thankful Mirror:

1) Take friend Jennelle's mirror idea

2) Combine the boys' thankful trees made at Michael's

3) Add their school mealtime prayer

Presto!  

November 16, 2011 - Pre-School Picture

It was time for pre-school pictures!  Knowing that it is a crap shoot with the boys and formal picture taking,  we only ordered a class picture.  To our surprise, the photographer got a great shot of Daniel!  She included it with their class picture. Seems unfair to have only Twin A's picture, so I'm in the process of ordering Anthony's.

November 7, 2011 - Candy Corn Bingo

Here's one way to use left over candy corn :)

November 6, 2011 - Rainy Sunday

A little rain didn't keep these two from wanting to go to Sunday school.  On the contrary, they were eager to put on their rain slickers and open their Cars 2 umbrellas.  Splashing through the puddle was simply icing on the cake :)

November 1, 2011 - Treats for the Troops

We took the boys for a dental cleaning and found out that the office was going to be doing a candy collection for the military on November 1st.  I told my students to think about these soldiers, many who are just a 6 years older than them, far away from home and missing out on Halloween and other holidays.  I asked them to consider supporting this drive by bringing in just one little handful of candy from their loot. These kids were so generous.  They turned in 14 lbs. of candy for what I dubbed Treats for the Troops!  I am so proud of my Eagles!!!!!

A win:win = Less cavities for the kids and smiles on soldiers' faces!

A Xerox box full of candy from Room 3 :)

October 31, 2011 - Happy Halloween

These boys are too funny!  They like their led lit pumpkins so much that they have them on the nightstand by the bed.

October 30, 2011 - Pancakes, Pumpkins, and Pirates

Today started out

 with chocolate chip, Halloween pancakes

 and then service.

Then....we took off to the La Habra Children's Museum to carve some pumpkins. The boys were initially interested while selecting their pumpkin, gathering supplies, and picking a design to carve. However, interest quickly dwindled once they realized this activity would get their hands very dirty. I winded up being the solo pumpkin carver. The vision I had in my head of how this first carving would go played out differently in reality. Oh well! They played, I carved.

Lastly,

we went home and patiently waited until dark to visit the pirate themed haunted house.

Before going, I reminded them that this was make believe and only for Halloween.  I told them that if they got scared, they could close their eyes or do their Blas karate.  The boys were brave as we went through the maze. Anthony did wind up continuing through with his eyes covered after a good scare that made us all scream.  Daniel gave the pirate by the exit door an unexpected karate chop, which made him burst into laughter.