Much to be Grateful For

We began "M" week by making some muffins!

Then we colored some M things. When Kieryn began coloring the milk, she went and got her cup!

The next day we did some fun activities with marshmallows. She is very good at finding the letter M. She even points it out on signs when she sees it - like at Walmart.

After making our mouth, we practiced the correct way to brush our teeth!

I think Kieryn ate more marshmallows than she played with, but she had fun. She even made her own spider!

The next day we did playdough M...

 and played with money. Ronan was having fun just playing with his toes.

In the last week or so, Kieryn has begun giving toys to Ronan to include him in on the activities (super cute). Unfortunately he's not ready to play with her yet... but she still trys. Of course, this was one activity that I had a close eye on...didn't want Ronan eating any coins!

We attended the Hershey parade with some new friends. Kieryn dressed as Willie and was very excited to scare her friends. I was happy that she wanted to wear it because it was really cold that night!

We barely got in the door and she was breaking into her candy! She got a blue lollipop on the ride home.. notice her blue mouth!

 On one of the days we talked about monkeys, mandarin oranges and mangos.

 

She had to bring Nano to story time.

We attended the MOMS Halloween party. We made hand print ghosts and enjoyed playtime with friends. Kieryn went as a Barbie Princess.

Ronan was superman!

Then we had a blast with mohawks and making music!

We sang into a microphone...

and boy was our music AMAZING (amazingly LOUD)!

We did some marching with our music...

and Ronan joined in too!

Kieryn got to visit her first corn maze and hayride this week!

She got to pick her own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch too!

Later the two kids got to paint pumpkins. Well, Ronan just got to touch and feel his, but he had fun too!

The kids and I are heading to Kansas today to visit family. Unfortunately their Great Grandma Bergman passed away earlier this week. We are excited to see family, but sad at the circumstance. Looking forward to fun in Kansas. Until next time...

Lovin' Life!!

This week was "L" week so we talked about lots of things! We talked about love... and because Kieryn loves her locomotives, she made sure they went everywhere with her!

We talked about loving and being gentle with baby brother...he appreciated that! :)

Kieryn got to visit the dentist this week too! She did AMAZING! We read a book about it prior to going and she was wonderful. She had no fear, knew to sit still, and was excited about the surprise that came afterwards for sitting so still - Harold the Helicopter. Of course, we looked for the "L" in both of those words!

We made little lambs and sang a song:

Kieryn had a little lamb, ..., its fleece was white as snow.

It followed her to the library, the library, the library,

It followed her to the library because it loved to learn.

She really enjoyed this and we sang it multiple days!

We went on leaf hunts...

We painted a lobster... Ronan wanted to watch!

And we tried some foods that began with L...lime

 

lettuce... which she liked because she dipped it in syrup.

What a lovely week! Until next time!

KAN life get any sweeter?!?

Ronan started off "K" week cheering for his Kansas City Chiefs and relaxing on his KSU blanket. He's having just as much fun with the letter activities as Kieryn... or at least it feels that way... he's wanting to be held more so he can see what we're doing.

We worked a lot with Kieryn's name this week and by the end of the week she was introducing herself to every kid on the playground. It is super cute to here her say "Hi, my name is Kieryn."

One evening we had a King tea party. So, we made our crowns first and then got dressed up. Both kids had a fun time!

After the tea party, Kieryn was back to her trains!

On one of the days last week, we visited Kieryn's friends, "the singing cows" at Chocolate world... because kisses are one of her favorite treats. She calls them "purple chocolates" because I get the dark chocolate kisses. She had so much fun!

Got our pumpkins picked out! We'll do some carving soon!!

Our future K-Stater!

We did lots of fun K activities this week... letter K with keys...

enjoyed kiwi for snacks (kinda sour at first, but she liked it)...

did kite matching...
(I wanted to do kite flying but it never really worked out...sort of a colder/rainy week)

and painting!

 Kieryn's cousin Tiana visited over the weekend and the two girls played so well together. They colored, had a huge tea party in the basement, visited Chocolate world AGAIN, and played outside! By the end of the visit, Kieryn was wanting to do everything that her cousin Tiana did. It was so cute!

Over the weekend, Kieryn got to dress up as the KSU Willie! She had so much fun scaring us. She was hiding all over the house! Here she is showing off her KSU muscles!

It's hard to believe, but our little man is 4 months old!

On Saturday, Steven's parents and Tiana visited us to celebrate Steven's birthday. We had so much fun, and some wonderful food. Thank you to them for helping make Steven's day special! Happy Birthday Daddy! We love you so much!