Eli isn't the only one going to school! Benjy started Joy School a couple weeks ago. A group of seven of us moms got together and formed a group consisting of eight (two are twins) kiddos aged almost 3 to four. Benjy is the oldest in the group, so he get the unprecedented experience of being the most knowledgeable kid in the room. Joy school is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11:30. We started off at our house, since I organized the group and have done Joy School before.
The kids did pretty well for their first week. A couple kids had a really hard time the first day and their moms had to stay the whole time. On Thursday though, both moms were able to leave after a little bit and their kiddos did fine.
What do you notice the most about this picture? That Emmie is holding a kitty lovingly in each arm? Her adorable smile? Or do you notice that hair in front of her beautiful eyes? This prompted me to do something I have been putting off far too long...
Cut those bangs!
Now we can see that adorable face.
Even if the bangs aren't totally straight. :)
Last Monday we had a baking extravaganza. Eli and I decided over the summer we were going to make a fruit tart, but we never seemed to find time for it. I decided to surprise him by baking the shell while he was at school and letting him help me put in the filling and fruit. While I had the baking stuff out, Benjy and Emmie helped me make a double batch of pumpkin bran muffins to freeze and a double batch of oatmeal chocolate cookie dough balls to freeze.
The kids helped me slice fruit and arrange it on the pastry cream. It was a super-fancy-special family home evening treat.
Emmeline is obsessed right now with volcanoes. She first was introduced to the volcano at the miniature golf course near us. They have a fake volcano that blasts fire every ten minutes or so, and she was so fascinated by it. Now she sees volcanoes in things not even remotely resembling volcanoes, like the lion's mane in the Mother Goose book.
I took a video of her looking at a picture of an actual volcano just to hear her get excited about it.
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