D is for Dirt

We have started alphabet days again and we had an especially fun letter D.  Here are some pictures of the kids.  I am doing it with another lady in our ward who also has three little girls who are almost the exact age of our little girls.

I let the kids dig in the dirt for dinosaur eggs (which were really rocks that Whitney and I had painted previously).  All the kids had a blast doing this activity.

I wish it had been warmer so we could just go outside to dig, but oh well. The dirt was easily swept up and taken care of after the activity.

We also talked about ducks.  So I filled a container with some water and we sang the duck song and had the kids take their ducks in and out of the water.  After the song, we just let the kids splash for a little while and they enjoyed that (until one little girl got a little too wet and started trying to take off her clothes).

These are our D's.  I always make sure there is something that we can hang on the wall as a reminder.  The Big D is for dog and the little d is for duck.  The kids do pretty good with the gluing and Whitney and Rachel are always proud of the things they make.

Then for snack we had dirt cups.  The kids mostly just ate the gummy worms and ignored most of the pudding.  But I discovered that pudding can freeze and become popsicles.  So I didn't feel bad wasting a bunch of pudding.  Anyway, it was a fun letter.  We do each letter twice a week to help the kids retain them.  I think Whitney is getting pretty good at recognizing all the letters and remembering what sounds they make.

Here is just a cute Megan picture.  She is five months old now and is starting to reach for everything and knocking things over.  I like this shirt that says 'Smile if you think I'm cute.'  She is definitely cute and can always make me smile.

And Megan wearing her pretty church dress.  She was a happy girl. 

Eating Rice

Rice cereal that is.  Megan is almost five months old and we decided to let her try some rice cereal.  Here are a few pictures from the experience.

Megan gets a good look at the spoon; she seemed pretty fascinated by the process of eating.

And then getting her bite.  It took her awhile to let us put the food into her mouth.

Look at that face.

Whenever I smiled at Megan, she would give us a big smile back.

It is kind of hard to tell but Megan kept drooling the rice cereal back out.  I am not sure she liked the cereal very much.

Will takes a turn feeding Megan.  Whitney also took a couple of turns feeding Megan too.  We are going to keep trying to convince her to eat some more.  Maybe she will one day decide it tastes good.

A Wonderful Visit (Part 2)

Here are some more pictures of us hanging out with Will's parents. 

Us at a wool factory in Pendleton.  The girls mostly loved just running around because the factory had a big open area, but they acquiesced to letting me take a fast picture of them.

Will's mom gave me a cool flannel board that can also be used as a white board.  I have made a couple of stories that Whitney likes.  We decided to do a performance for Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.

If you look real closely, you can tell that we were doing the three little pigs.  Rachel was the big bad wolf.

Here we are having story time.  Whitney gave some books to grandma to read to her and Megan.

Will's mom had a special photo app thing on her tablet.  You could take all kinds of distorted pictures with it.  Whitney and Rachel thought it was hilarious.

Grandma Keeler was very good at handling both little girls throwing their balls at her.

These beautiful dresses on the girls were handmade by Will's mom.  I received compliments at church for their beautiful matching dresses.  They are really adorable.  Thanks for spending so much time on them, Roseanne. 

Anyway, we had a lot of fun that weekend.  Thanks for the visit.

A Wonderful Visit (Part 1)

We had a great visit with Will's parents this last weekend.  They are amazing and so fun with the kids.  We actually met them down in Pendleton at the children's museum. 

After eating the picnic lunch I made, the kids got right down to playing.  There was a cool pizza room that had all kinds of pizza goodies.  Grandpa Keeler helps design the perfect pizza.

There was a little toy train with buttons and levers to push.  We all crowded into the train and asked Whitney to take us places.

Here is the music spot with little fun instruments.  Grandpa taught her how to play the triangle.

There was a little kid section for small children.  Rachel spent a lot of time going down the little slide and Megan hung out with grandma - she was content observing all the toys and loud kids around her.

One hit for my two girls was the tea party room.  I informed them we were having a juice party, which confused the other people in the room. Oh well.  Whitney looked really cute in her floppy hat, pouring the juice for everyone.

This was a shadow room.  Rachel didn't quite understand the concept and always moved away from the wall too early, but Whitney really liked making different shadows.

Whitney the construction worker.  She had a cool tool belt and safety goggles.

And in the grocery room.  Anyway, it was a fun museum.  Whitney has already asked if she can go back again.  Thanks for coming to visit us Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.  I will post again in a couple of days with other things we did with Will's parents. 

Down to Vancouver

It was kind of a last minute decision, but we found out that we were going to be around for the baby blessing for little Gideon and we decided to go down to Vancouver last weekend.  It was a fast trip, but it was fun.  The girls especially loved spending time with their cousins.

We spent a lot of time hanging out at the Jensen home and playing with all their fun toys (which were apparently way more fun than any toys we have).

Whitney and Magnus play baseball.

It was super cute watching Whitney read to Magnus.  Magnus picked a huge stack of books and Whitney sat with him for awhile telling him about each one.

This was also cute - the infamous chair spinning. 

Magnus liked to tell Megan that she was cute.  It sounded just the way that Rachel tells Megan that, so it was quite funny.

We went to the library in Vancouver and let the kids play.

Megan gets some tummy time on the little car carpet.

We were very nicely invited to the Jensen crackers and cheese party.  The food was delicious and it was really nice to be invited.  Now, looking back at the pictures, we didn't actually get any with baby Gideon in them.  But we did actually get to see the cute little baby and have fun hanging out with the Jensens.  Thanks for letting us come crash your home.