Exploring The Area

 Claire

She was very excited to go to a new park this week when we joined some people from the neighborhood in a play group at a castle park. It wasn't the closest park, but the girls loved it because it was a huge castle and pirate ship with little colored eyes all over the place to find. I got to meet a few moms and talk while the kids explored and played, then had to deal with the rest of the week wanting to go back to that far away park. Every week we will go to a different park so we will see what is to come this next week. She had a good week at school and I got her interested in trying to read some books from the library by finding the level section and picking out level 1 books with what interests her. I'm trying to get her to practice reading the words in the sentences that are her sight words so she can see them used in books as well as on her sight word paper. We dressed in some cute sweater dresses for church because it is getting colder and they looked too cute to miss on a picture.

Shay

Most of the week she joined Claire in asking to go to the castle park again because she really liked how the theme of the castle was blue and there was a raft swing that was blue. I'm glad she understood the lesson we taught last time she peed on the ground at the park that she needs to tell me and find a potty. I would have been embarrassed if she peed on the ground, but she went with me to the potty instead and explained that we don't pee on the ground anymore. She is starting to not expect to go soewhere everytime we take Claire to school and most the time we come home, but on Friday she got to come see daddy at work! He gets to comp his own treatment and ne other person's treatment, so we got by blood drawn to see how my labs are doing since I haven't seen them in a while. All the people in the clinic thought Shay was so cute and she was being so polite when we went to the next store to buy some new cloths, even saying 'excuse me' in the isle. I then let her go into DI because it was really close to the cloths store and she found new Elsa and Anna dolls that match and were only $2 each. I like being able to spoil her with cheap toys that make her happy!

Family

We went to Logan to celebrate Chris's brother's accomplishment of graduting with a PH.D and got to see a lot of the cousins we had said goodbye to recently. We traveled in the rain and by the time we went home it was snowing in the higher mountains and we had snow on the tops of our mountains on Sunday morning too. It changed to cold really quickly just over the last two days and now it feels like winter all of a sudden. Hopefully trick or treating won't be too cold and I can plan by having warm cloths under the girl's outfits and find our umbrellas in case of down pouring. Still need to offically decide on our costumes and if we are going to match the girls or not because I don't want to have to buy too much to match them.