August and September

At the Pacific Ocean in August.













 Buying soccer cleats for his first season playing soccer.  Of course Dallin had to take charge here since he's the one who knows about cleats.



Our new house has a very small back yard (land is so expensive in the Pacific northwest), but that didn't stop the kids from setting up our trampoline.




This is Preston's new room.  At first he thought he got the short end of the stick because Dallin and Sariah both have skylights in their rooms, and he doesn't.  But he was happier after James installed a ceiling fan for him.  It's a nice bedroom.

 We got him this nice storage system from IKEA to hold all of his toys with many parts (marble runs, Legos, etc.)  He has the cleanest of all the bedrooms.

 And his little bookshelf, which holds mainly Calvin and Hobbes--we must have at least eight volumes, and he's listened to all of them dozens of times over.  That's all he wants at bedtime.  I finally got him to listen to some other books in the mornings, but at bedtime it's all Calvin and Hobbes.

 First day of school, looking over a dragon book.  And eating applesauce--Preston hates having to go too long without a snack, especially during school.

 This was the dragon picture he drew--of course I was clueless, but he informed me it was a Minecraft dragon, and we had to label it and hang it on his bedroom wall

First day of school pictures:




Working on some phonics--wow, now it's November and he's so far past what he was doing just two months ago.

Showing off the drawings he made to help remember "sh" and "ch" (a librarian saying "shhh" and a train going "ch-ch-ch-choo".



Later in September, we did some activities with ice, and one of them was making an ice castle.  I love the progression of his faces as he discovers that he can build it higher and higher.






We also made an ice candle by pouring melted wax over ice cubes in our mold.  It turned out very "hole-y", and he enjoyed using it for story time.


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