3 years, 8 months/1 year, 6 months, 1 week.

Happy Halloween!  We came home from our trip to find two healthy, happy boys who were very excited to don their Thing 1 and Thing 2 costumes and run around the neighborhood in search of candy.  Connor didn't understand trick-or-treating at all, but he quickly figured out what candy is.  Special thanks to Grammy, costume seamstress, and to Graham, wig model.

3 years, 7 months/1 year, 5 months, 2 weeks.

A morning of puddle splashing spilled over into an afternoon of playing with Lily and Jacob today.  In the future, we would appreciate it if the morning and afternoon were separated by something called a "nap."

3 years, 7 months/1 year, 5 months, 1 week.

At the park this afternoon, Lucca and Graham rolled around on the grass giggling together while Connor honed his dribbling skills.

Thanks Nana for the Eagles shirts!  Connor got a number of "Go Birds!" shout-outs today, and an acquaintance from our old neighborhood recognized us because she remembered Graham wearing his Phillies hat when he was Connor's age, saw Connor wearing his McCoy shirt, and put two & two together.

Here's Therese's e-mail of the week, entitled, "Eye pie":

Howdy do,

This week we are continuing to learn about ourselves and the world around us through our five senses. After reading I Spy and looking around the room for colors, we spied at our reflections in a mirror. Each person decided what color their eyes were and colored a part of our "eye pie". It is hanging in the classroom.

We read The Listening Walk and sat with our eyes closed to see (hear) what we could hear. We heard a plane, a siren, some men talking and a barking dog. We used our ears again to listen while playing Simon Says. Some ears couldn't hear Simon very well so we decided it was time to ride tricycles instead.

We read Eyes and did not use our eyes, but our sense of touch, to guess what was in the Feely Box again. People guessed a ball, an apple and cold.

This week we introduced the calendar and talked a tiny bit about the season, month and the year. We also added photos to our attendance chart. Now when we sing good morning everyone puts up their name and photo on the classroom door so we can see who's at school and who is not.

While we splashed at the water table we added food coloring. And used our sense of touch too with shaving cream.

In the big room we dressed up, took care of babies, built beds using blocks, went lots of places on wheels, made meals, worked on our computer key board and hid in our castle aka jungle gym. Busy, busy, busy.

Friday we made our own fruit salad snacks. We cut up apples and bananas. We also sang about apples and bananas. We looked for apples in books. We found them in three of our books.

Next week we will play games and talk about classroom rules and how to be a good friend.

It has been a great start to a new year and is fun getting to know each of your beautiful children.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Therese

3 years, 7 months/1 year, 5 months, 1 week.