This Family : January 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Skiing

We're skiing at Canyons and PCMR this year, so come join us!

Dec 2014 - Jan 2015 ski movie: http://youtu.be/U-JHkTdE9kY

Jovie has acquired a new nervousness about the steep slopes, so she's adopted a confidence animal (Leia the monkey), a confidence color (turquoise), and a confidence word (Lightsaber if I remember correctly).

Monday, January 19, 2015

Ikey changes schools...

Our move to our new house is imminent (like in the next two months...) so Ikey switched schools to our new neighborhood school. He goes to full day Kindergarten now and his teacher is Ms. Harms. She is so nice and such a good teacher. They have dress up day almost every week. Here they are as penguins.

The second week at his new school, we turned in his fantastic Science Fair Project. It was off the chain. It was seriously awesome - the best Kindergarten Science Fair project in the history of Kindergarten Science Fair.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Prairie Vespers

The boy who loves to read and sing has found the perfect thing: Hank the Cowdog. This series of books by John R. Erickson is full of cowboy language and dog exploits and usually includes a poem or song. Ikey will make up a tune and sing the song for me, usually in the car. I always give him the phone so he can record his songs, and I always intend to post them on the blog for your listening pleasure, but I run out of time and concentration. I just had to post this one today because I think it's really enjoyable. The song is pretty and he is so funny to enunciate so well and make funny faces too.

http://youtu.be/5rsyY4rSKNQ

Monday, January 5, 2015

Inventor's Plan: Car

Ikey drew this Inventor's Plan today with zero help from anybody.

"I'm pretending that I made this plan before any cars were invented and I thought all cars would look like this, but now you'd just call this a van." You'll notice how fancy the car plan is "versus a standard old wagon".