Friday, November 10, 2017

All about Fall

I feel like there are a lot of little things that I haven't posted about (and some big ones too) since we have been busy the past two months or so... so let's re-cap.

We started school!
I posted this on facebook, but not on the blog at the time.  Charlotte is now in 5th grade, Toby is in 3rd, and Jake is in 1st.  Parent teacher conferences for the first quarter will be this week, so I'll find out then how things are going, but judging by the kids' descriptions, everything is going great.

We signed Amelie up for preschool ballet!
Unfortunately, the only time slot available was at the exact time the other kids got out of school.  It kinda worked as I could drop her off, then run (literally, on foot) to the school and meet the kids, and then come back to ballet.  Except that without me there, Amelie completely freaked out. We tried it for a month and when there was no clear improvement I gave Amelie an ultimatum, "suck it up, or no more ballet."  So yeah, we quit ballet.  Maybe she'll try again in a year or two.

We started reading the Book of Mormon (again) as a family and after scriptures each evening the kids would go upstairs and build something we had read out of Legos.  This is Lehi talking to Laman and Lemuel about how they are like the valley and the river. 

And this is Nephi cutting off the head of Laban.  They were having fun with this for a while and then petered out a bit, I'll have to remind them so they can do it again tonight.

The bigger kids also started sports.  Jake played soccer.  His favorite soccer shirt said, "no talk, all action" and we joked that it was the opposite for Jakey.. he was very much talk, and a little action.  

Amelie enjoyed her role as cheerleader.


And Toby and Charlotte played on a co-ed volleyball team.  They both improved a ton this season, had a lot of fun, and have decided they want to keep playing volleyball next year as well.

That brings us up to Halloween. This year we had Hermione, Cinderella, a Ninja, and a Pirate Captain.

Rob and I dressed up a little bit too as Napoleon Dynamite and Deb.

We attended the chili cook-off and trunk or treat at our church the week before Halloween.  Charlotte made this bean bag toss game on her own.  Skeleton = 3 pieces of candy, pumpkin = 2, and ghost = 1.

A few days before actual Halloween we carved pumpkins.  It is so nice to have a kiddo that is finally old enough to help carve!

The girls did a cat silhouette with a crescent moon and the boys did a classic Jack-o-Lantern. We got  few trick or treaters this year- more than in the past, and our kids even threw their costumes on and went to a few of our neighbor's houses that they saw were handing out candy.

The next weekend marked the end of the first quarter of the school year, which our Elementary celebrates with a skate party in the multi-purpose room.

First, they have grade K-2 skate, and then after an hour grades 3-5 skate.  Lucky us we get to be there the WHOLE TIME.  Charlotte likes to dance while she skates.

 Jacob had so much fun this year!  He was giggling and totally sweaty by the end of his time skating.  I bought him these roller-blades at the thrift store for $5 and he has been rollerblading in the basement nearly every day since the skate party.  (This little student council girl helping him is in 5th grade, by the way.  Jake may end up being bigger than Toby one day.)

Oh boy!  It has been a busy Fall and it is not even mid-November!!

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