Dad's night is the best night EVER!

It was Dad's night this past week at Jacob and Gwyn's preschool.  Brian and Gwyn went together on Wednesday night and then Brian and Jacob went together on Thursday night.  Both nights consisted of pizza, apples, juice, and cookies, which were followed up with a craft and time in their classrooms with their  teachers and fellow students and their dads.  Jacob really did say, "Dad's night is the best night EVER!"  He had a great time.  His night consisted of Dinosaurs and Dad's, he was super proud to bring his Dad and Brian said he smiled ear to ear and didn't want to leave.  Gwyn was a little chatterbox on the way to school and from school, but when she was there she was quiet.  She did have a good time, and did raise her hand to recommend they all sing the ABC song during the circle time in her classroom, and when her teacher said she wanted the kids and Dads to sing her favorite song, Gwyn shouted out, "Baby Jesus!" and her teacher said, "you're right Gwyn, you know what my favorite song is."  Gwyn had fun too, but Jacob especially did, they have been talking about Dad's night coming up for at least a month and they had been putting together their dinosaur homes and making ties in preparation for it.  Brian had a great time too.  Gwyn got dressed up and made Brian that tie and a little water bottle with glitter in it, that she wanted to play with non-stop for about 3 days straight.

 Jacob said his Dad's name was Brian, that he was 41 years old, that his favorite thing to do with him was to play Batman, that when he goes to work he works with stuff, that when he watches television he watches people shows, that his favorite thing to eat is chicken and noodles, and that Brian is special because he plays with him.  Love that little boy!

 Jacob did sorting of their dinosaur eggs (jelly beans), he loves to sort by color, shape, size.  They then counted them out and graphed it.  Jacob saved 3 jelly beans to take home for me, so sweet!

We were all getting over some allergies this week.  The weather has been great, but everyone seemed to get a little runny nose this week, including Gwyn, which had to get about 6 breathing treatments.  After I did one in the morning, we were taking Jacob to school and she said, “Mommy, you didn’t do it right.  I just coughed a little bit.”  When I responded that I guess we would have to do another breathing treatment when we got home, then I think she realized she had better stick to telling on her brother and sister rather than her mommy!

Artwork from school this week has been focused on snowmen.  Gwyn made this cute little snowman that she told me that she made for me when I picked her up, and then she told Brian that she made it for him when he came home from work.  She has been doing this with several things she has made the past few weeks, I think she is figuring out how to work us!  It was letter R this week, so Jacob brought a rhinoceros for show and tell and cut out pictures of a girl reading, a ribbon, a ruler, and a rocket for his letter book.  

 Gwyn's snow man:

With the weather being so nice we were outside quite a bit this week.  We went to the park a few times, Brian has been taking at least Jacob and Gwyn up to the park by himself on the weekends while I stay home with Annie.  Annie is getting VERY high maintenance at the park.  She wants to be climbing stairs, going down slides, etc., but you can’t trust her to do most of it without help, so I find I’m mainly chasing her up the stairs bringing her down and then back again!  The kids have now taken to playing outside in dress up clothes as well:

 Batman on his scooter:

 Sweet little Annie is getting so big, she loves this car and gets very upset if anyone tries to play with it without her.

After about 4 weeks in a row of trying to secure our babysitter for one night for a date night, Brian and I finally were able to go out to dinner and to coffee on Saturday night, and we were able to catch up with Jason since he’s been MIA for the past few weeks!  Brian is still playing volleyball at church on Sundays.  It was funny this Sunday because as Brian and I are walking around after Sunday school, people would be stopping to talk to him and make sure he was going to make it to volleyball.  One person even stopped to tell me how awesome he is, but we already knew that!  

Jacob is big into all things Star Wars.  We went to Barnes and Noble this weekend and they have these $3 paperback books, so we let the kids each pick one.  Gwyn wanted to get at least 5, one was even a Dora Snow Princess book she already had at home, but she said that she needed a new one since Annie chewed the cover off of hers at home.  We told her no, just one, so she ended up with a Fancy Nancy (or as she calls it, Fancy Fancy book).  Jacob was on a mission to find a Star Wars book, and he was so excited he could hardly contain himself.  Unfortunately for us, it was a level 4 reader which mean it was VERY long.  In the 2 hours we had in between the time we got back from the book store until the time our babysitter got there, Brian had read it once, I had read it once, and he even tried to pick it for the book that Savannah (Gwyn used to call her Banana, but now it is Sabannah) would read to him before bed, but Brian and I had him select two short books instead.  Gwyn also knows more than me about Princess Leia and Princess Padma.  The kids have some great conversations with each other about Star Wars, princess, movies, their friends, which friends will come to their birthday parties (even though Jacob's is months away), letters, numbers, etc.  I loaded this application on my phone called Talking Tom, and it is this cat that repeats what you say and the kids LOVE it.  Here they are letting Annie have a turn:

Here is a shout out to my Dad who's birthday is tomorrow, Happy Birthday Dad, we love you!

I also had Jacob's conference with his teacher this week.  I was so proud to be his mom.  He is doing so well with everything, his letters (upper and lower case), letter sounds, counting, math, social, developmental, physical, hand eye coordination, fine motor, gross motor, behavior, etc.  He pays attention, plays well with others, does what he is told, helps clean up, etc.  He is such a sweet kid who is ready to go to Kindergarten next year!!  Brian and I are lucky to be his parents, he's such a good kid!

Annie Bananie is into everything as is evident from this video of her repeating some words after partly destroying the house while Jacob and Gwyn were in school one day, she also digs through the trash.  This week she had pulled out this giant drink with a straw and was walking around sucking it down:



Here is another video from the kids playing outside:



Funny things the kids said this week:

Jacob to Brian when they were playing catch with a football and standing about 10 ft apart:  Go long Daddy!

Jacob to me:  When I learn how to read, I’m going to read you a book before you go to bed.

Gwyn:  At Halloween, I don’t want to go to that scary house. (she said this about 10 times this week)

Gwyn to Brian:  One day can we go to dinner and dress up like movie stars like Fancy Fancy?  (after reading a Fancy Nancy book where her family did the same).

Brian:  Yes, we can do that, but we’ll all need big sunglasses.

Jacob as he is showing me a star wars figurine:  Do you know who this is?

Gwyn (before I could answer):  He is Jedi Master.

Jacob:  No, he isn’t.  He is a Jedi Master, but that is not his name.  His name is Snobi one kanobi

Gwyn:  Yes, he is Jedi Master (seriously Brian is brain washing these kids!)

Gwyn:  Old Mother Gothel is not Rapunzel’s mother, she lied to her and that is bad (another random comment made at least 20 times this week).