Singing with Nana

We had a great Thanksgiving at Nana and Papa's house.  Ella and Emma really enjoyed the attention of their great-grandparents.  On Friday evening, Nana taught them a new song about Mr. Moon.  We all agreed they were just too cute!  (All 3 of them.)

Thankful Turkeys

To help my students remember to be thankful, we made "Thankful Turkeys"  Each day, the children would tell me one thing they were thankful for to be written on a feather.  Today was the last day of school before Thanksgiving, so we put our turkeys together.  I thought I'd share Ella and Emma's turkeys.

Emma's Turkey

Ella's Turkey

O Christmas Tree

This year we decided to decorate our Christmas tree a little earlier than usual.  We have several things happening in the next few weekends, so this weekend became devoted to decorating for Christmas.  The girls were a great help putting the ornaments on the tree.  I was pleasantly surprised how well they did with being careful with them and not just putting them in a big bunch.  They were excited to get to use the step ladders to put ornaments higher than they would normally be able to reach.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here.

Ella

Emma

Silly Girls

Part 1 of Video: The girls have started asking to be tickled, and we are only too willing to oblige.  This particular incident occurred after dinner one evening.

Part 2: We have been studying David and Goliath during Bible time in preschool.  One day we acted the story out, and the girls were very excited to show Daddy how the story goes.  Emma is David, Ella is Goliath, and I am King Saul.

Our Backyard in Autumn

We love our backyard!  It is huge and beautiful.  We have spent quite a bit of time in our back yard lately.  First, our new path.

The kids that come to my preschool, come through the side gate and into the yard.  The path we had only went to the end of the house, was not very wide, and didn't look all that great.  So, we decided to take it out and put a flagstone path that went all the way from the driveway in front to the sidewalk in the back.  We moved over 2 tons of rock into our yard.  I didn't take any before or during pictures, but here's the after:

From the driveway

Down the length of the house

Around the corner

To where it meets the sidewalk

Last night we had a major freeze.  When we looked outside this morning this is what we saw:

 Almost all the leaves had fallen off the 2 main trees in our back yard!

So, what do we do?  Go out and play in them, of course!

Ready, Set...

Throw!!

 Our sweet girls posing for a picture for a school project.

Emma

Ella