I Was Right...and this time I wish I wasn't

Well, the day after Amy unwrapped her Christmas gift, she broke the lamb to the only nativity set I left out in the open.  The rest of the breakable decorations I put inside the hutch this year.  We put a child lock on the piano room doors where the nativity set is displayed to prevent further mishaps.  This is also the room where the tree will go, so a child lock seemed like a good idea.  Well, the lock wasn't quite heavy duty enough.  Today I heard the piano room doors open with what sounded like a crash and I went running.  Amy was talking to herself and excitedly said, "Yay, you pushed it out!" (meaning the child lock) as she ran to the keyboard.  I ran and scooped her up to which she responded with a whole lot of giggling.  Is it good that she acknowledges she's a stinker?  :)

Musical numbers

We've had a lot of music happenings lately.  Leah participated in a solo violin judging with other students in the county.  She received a superior rating which we were all happy about.  She was very nervous before her performance and ended up playing so well I told her that she plays better when she's nervous.  :)  I've decided that Jared and I should always be her accompanist where possible because parents aren't allowed in the room when the student is being judged, but the accompanist of course is.

Kaitlyn had the opportunity to sing the first verse of "For the Beauty of the Earth" this past Sunday in our Sacrament meeting.    It was A Capella, so we recorded it again at home to share.

Here are both of their pieces:

We're very proud of both of them!

'Tis the Season...and what a season it will be!

Today I finished a phone call with my sister and then went to find Amy. Whenever Amy is missing and quiet we know it is a dangerous situation! I couldn't find her anywhere, so I went upstairs and said, "Amy, where are you?" She said, "in your room". I inwardly groaned because I had started pulling out the Christmas decorations and I didn't really want her digging into them. She wasn't in them...I opened the door to see torn wrapping paper everywhere and Amy staring at the gift my parents got her for Christmas. She was a very happy camper and said, "I want to play with the tea set right now!" I told her we needed to wait and wrap it back up. She said, "No, I want to play with the tea set right now!" I finally distracted her enough to wrap the present back up. I have a feeling this is going to be a very interesting (and maybe early) Christmas!

Field Trips & Halloween

Since it's mid-November now, I'll blog about October...yeah, that's how life is going right now!  :)

We had two preschool fieldtrips in October.  We went to the Atlanta Children's museum and a local pumpkin patch.  Hyrum and Amy played very well together at the Children's museum.  It was fun to watch Hyrum help his little sister.  It was also fun to watch Amy feel like she was a part of the group.  Her favorite thing there by far was an area built to look like a kitchen.  She loves to play house now.  When she went to the grocery store part of the museum, she had just about any food you would think of to choose from, but she insisted on "purchasing" every last banana at the store and wanted nothing else!

Fall Fieldtrips - slideshow with music

For our pumpkin patch outing we braved the cold.  We were freezing!  Our bodies have gotten used to the south, and so 40 degrees was almost miserable!  :)

For Halloween Leah dressed up as a candy corn, Kaitlyn dressed up as Merada (sp?) from "Brave", Hyrum was Spiderman, and Amy was a witch.  They each designed their own pumpkins.  Hyrum did much better cleaning out the pumpkin this year.  Last year he was horrified to touch the innards!

Halloween - picture slideshow