Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Professor Severus Snape, and a Fairy!  We chose this family theme because we have loved reading the Harry Potter books with B and M.  I love to do family costumes, but this may be our last year.  Hermione and Hagrid should lead the crew tonight.  We hope you have a fabulous day and get lots of treats!!

W's Race Car Birthday Party

W couldn't wait for his 4th birthday party!  He chose a race car birthday theme!  We decided to do a low-key backyard birthday party and invite some of his friends from preschool and the neighborhood.  We painted a road with spray paint and brought out all of the kids' vehicles from the garage as well as the toy gas pump and a tire pump.  We set up a racetrack for cars to race down and the water table for the car wash.  The kids had so much fun playing!

The ramp for the race cars

K at the car wash

Enjoying pizza and grapes...

The amazing cake...

Racing on the road in the backyard...

Pumping up his tires...

So excited for his favors...race car and fruit snacks!

Thank you for helping to celebrate our precious son!!

W is 4 years old...

Four years...we cannot believe that W has been with us for this long!  It seems like yesterday that he was born and now he is in preschool, learning how to read, playing soccer and enjoying his gymnastics class.  He is so funny, but he can be very stubborn!  He knows what he likes and what he doesn't like. He loves to play with his little sister and is almost gleeful when his big brothers let him play Legos with them!  We are so lucky to call him ours!!

This and That...

It has been so long since I have been able to sit down and add to my little blog!  Moving this summer, renovating our house (still ongoing), taking care of the kids, and starting a new job has been very stressful to say the least!  We are involved in so much fun stuff here and we are loving our new place!

B and M are involved in gymnastics, lacrosse, Cub Scouts, and swim team.  They love the physical activity and it helps one of them go to sleep at night!

W and K started preschool and they are also taking a gymnastics class.  They love it when they get to school, but dropping off has not been fun!  W started soccer, but it's not his favorite.  He is learning though.  K would not participate in the dance class much to my sadness but maybe next year!

And I have started working for a company called Moments of Magic Travel where we specialize in helping our clients plan Disney vacations at Walt Disney World, Disney Land, Disney Cruises and anything affiliated with Disney. I am loving planning the magic for my clients!  It is a free service to my clients and I book everything for you and plan your itinerary.  If you or anyone you know is interested, feel free to contact me at kimberlyw@momentsofmagictravel.com.

I hope all of you are well!  It's nice to be back closer to our roots!

September 2017 Preschool Plans

Hello everyone!  We have been SO busy and it would take SO many posts to catch up on what has been going on in our world.  We traveled all summer to visit family and we moved again!  We are settling nicely into our new city and home.  I hope to share our travels from the summer on the blog, but I wanted to post my preschool lessons for September.  The littles are going to preschool, BUT I have loved teaching them at home so I'm going to continue this year.  W has been so sad that we haven't been doing preschool so I wanted to get back to it!  Feel free to use with your kiddos...I had to differentiate for W and K, but other than that, the plans are consistent with what I did last year!

Here is a picture of us starting school and preschool...we are off to a great start!

April Preschool Lesson Plans

Things have been busy here...I finally got my April lesson plans ready to share!

W has learned all of his letters and sounds so we are reviewing them this month as well as rhyme.  We are starting to "read" little books.  He echo reads after me and then we read it together and then he reads it independently.  He has a rudimentary concept of word so this is helping with that as well.  He loves being able to "read it by myself."  We shall see how this goes...I don't want to push him, but he is very interested because he has older brothers who can read.

Happy Spring!

Kimberly

Losing a Tooth

My sweet M lost his FIRST tooth! He was so excited and glad to have it out because it was hanging on by a thread!  We don't pull teeth...we just let them come out on their own.  (That was also my cardinal rule as a first grade teacher...I don't pull teeth because I'm not a dentist!)

He got to put his tooth in the special tooth fairy pillow, but he felt that she also needed a special note. He distinctly remembered that his big brother B got $5.00 for his first tooth so he wanted to ensure that he got the same special treatment.

Here is his note:

It says "first tooth" M.

And here is M without his tooth!  He is getting so big...and of course, he was so excited to get $5.00 from the tooth fairy.  Luckily, they all know that after the first tooth, they only get $1.00 for each tooth.  Otherwise, that would be a very broke tooth fairy!