Preston's Blog

 Preston playing Jenga, which he got for Christmas.   New Year's Eve Getting ready to go out and make noise on New Year's Eve. A great picture of all the kids spontaneously making art together.  (That is the art kit you gave Dallin the year before for Christmas.) Preston made a fort out of all our empty packing boxes. At the end of January, we started Preston's math unit, which then got interrupted in favor of packing, and we didn't completely finish it until the middle of April! We introduced the four operations through a story about four gnomes who help mine jewels underground and then help the Gnome King Equals make sure all the jewels are counted properly.  Each gnome represents a different operation. This was too long ago (and too much water under the bridge) for me to remember the specific activity, but it was one of many with manipulatives as we worked through understanding the four operations. It looks like Gnome Di...

The kids' favorite tradition is gingerbread house decorating. Daddy helped by being on "icing bag" duty. As you can see by the rows of marshmallows, Preston is very meticulous and likes to do things in an organized and patterned way. Christmas Eve devotional time Blowing out his Advent candle on Christmas Eve Opening his Christmas Eve PJ's:  Dallin chose them Christmas morning:  he finally got "that dang marble run"! "That dang marble run" was actually quite a pain to set up.  I was until 12:30 am trying to put it together.  Even though I followed the picture on the box exactly, I had to laugh when Preston's comment was, "Santa didn't put this together right." Another item of soccer-themed clothing--also courtesy of Dallin.  He's trying to turn Preston into a soccer player, and it's working. Jenga came in his stock...