January Roundup

We went to the Ice Castles in Midway! It was quite a drive, and quite crowded, but it was beautiful. Luke and Evelyn weren't impressed and had to leave early. It was pretty amazing though! 

 

  

 Here's our finished project for our Christmas advent activities. We had strips of paper with each activity written on it, and made them into a chain as we did each activity. 

 For Luke's birthday activity, he picked going to Thanksgiving Point, to the dinosaur museum. This is the first time Evelyn was at a place like this with no stroller. She loved it! It was a little trickier for me to keep an eye on everyone, but since not to many people were there, it worked out ok. It was also her first time playing in the sand. She was thrilled! 

 

  

 The kids all had a bit of birthday and Christmas money they were dying to spend, so we looked in the museum gift shop for the first time. Of course they all found things they couldn't live without. Luke claimed this mammoth-- so cute!

 Evelyn loves to try on shoes now-- and it so pleased with herself when she can get them on and shuffled around the house. 

 We were lucky to see Grandma and Grandpa DeGiulio at Kissie and Pata's house. It's a good chance to catch up! 

 Here's Evelyn at our own drive-in movie theater.

 Luke loves preschool! He's been working so hard to get his letter star-- which means he knows the names and sounds of all the letters. He's wanted it so badly! So Miss Angie sent home the list of the last few he needed to memorize. We worked on them a bit and he got it! He is so excited to begin bringing home reading books now! Luke also loved space week at preschool, and this fun astronaut hat he made there.  

 

 

After a few months of break, Luke did soccer month at preschool sports. The teachers are great there, and it's a good introduction to each sport, even though they are all still pretty young.