Busy, Busy BUSY!

I love to keep myself busy. Too busy probably, but I thrive on it. So here's what I've been up to.

Most of them are preschool file folder games.

This little game is for Emily and learning her numbers. She has down her "3" and "4" REALLY well. I have no idea why she'd learn the ones in the middle the fastest.

I really like to see the pieces. I tried gluing on freezer zip loc bags to the back of some file folder games two years ago, and they didn't stay very long. So this time I laminated it inside and cut a slit with a razor blade for the opening. I think it would work better with laminate rather than the contact paper that I used. I have a laminator but it doesn't do this big.

Here are my singing signs. On the back of the "Stop" sign is a "Go" sign. We've had fun with that one besides singing with a fun little game. (Red Light, Green Light which is a little easier for my girls to use the sign.) The lion is for loud with a mouse on the back for soft and the bee for "Zzzzz" and a ghost on the back for "Ooooo". We Love to sing at our house. We sang "I Love To See the Temple" together in church last Sunday. I had forgotten that it was the day Nathan and I were supposed to sing. I was still trying to convince him that he wanted to do it with me. We got to church to find our names in the program and practiced "I Love To See the Temple" together as a family. (Luckily I have to be there early for choir and could postpone choir practice just long enough to practice our song.) The first time we sang Emily didn't know what to think. The second time she started singing with us and the third time you could tell she absolutely loved it and was singing to her primary music teacher that we asked to see if she could hear us in the back. Meredith was content to let Daddy hold her and she would sing in his arms. When we came up to perform it Emily did REALLY well. I was so impressed. Both of my girls won't sing in primary, but they performed in front of the WHOLE congregation. After we were done and walking away Meredith yelled, "MY TURN!" The congregation got a good chuckle out of that one. It was a nice dream come true for me. I loved singing together with my family.
Here's Nathan helping me teach Emily her numbers.

We've finally turned to numbers for Emily because she has all of her letters down including most of her lower case letters. (We get the lower-case p and q mixed up as well as h and n.) Meredith has learned her letter sounds before her letter names. It's cute. She knows most of the letter sounds and can tell me most of the names. I really haven't focused on lower-case with her yet. She also loves to sit next to me while I'm reading a book (my book, the kind without pictures.) She'll point out the letters. "O says ah, T says "T", R says "r", etc." So cute!

Emily gets VERY excited when Meredith wakes up for her nap. It's so cute to see how much she has missed her sister. Meredith skipped out on her nap for the first time to my knowledge (I'm kind of suspicious about one other nap that I'm not sure was taken.)

I've also been enjoying making a LOT of nursing covers for friends having babies. Boy, there are a lot of babies being born around here it seems like. Including matching wipes case covers. One of these days I'll post pics.