Preschool

Clayton has a co-op preschool with three other boys on Wednesdays. He and I do other preschool learning together. Some fun ways that we learn is by making numbers with clay, drawing letters in flour (idea came from a friend) and of course playing in it for "reuses", collecting twigs, grass, etc. and making a bird's nest. He was in to magnifying glasses for awhile so I wrote really tiny different letters spread about a piece of paper and he had to use his magnifying glass to find as many of the one type of letter we talked about during that lesson. He really enjoys learning about dinosaurs and sea animals. We had read about the Blue whale being 100 feet so we went outside with our measuring tape and marked one end to the other. We held hands and ran from the head to the tail and back several times imagining that we were in the big whale. We also signed up with abcmouse.com through his Aunt, Heidi, and have enjoyed learning through this website as well. He earns tickets for doing various kinds of homework and can buy things like more fish for his fish tank and things for his bedroom. He of course wanted to buy more for his tank as soon as possible.

big brown eyes

Although Collin looks a little more like me than Dev, he has Devin's root beer eyes. Collin loves to get on top of and into things. The scariest time or times I should say are when he climbs the brick steps that are around the gas fireplace, but are not meant for actually walking on, to get onto the air hockey table. When he has scaled the bricks he stands straight and walks around the table like he has somewhere to go. He is so quiet about it. Sometimes I don't realize what he has done until I hear the hockey table rocking a bit and then I put 2 and 2 together and run back down stairs. One time while in the same room, I looked over to find him laying awkwardly in a basket of blankets that is by the brick wall. He had fallen landing sideways into the basket of blankets (thank goodness) while trying to climb the steps. Oh-my another brave child. It only took him once falling down the flight of stairs to know that going down them wasn't a good idea. We never put up a gate after that either but watched him more closely and really he hasn't fallen down since. He was 8 months then. Wow, I am sounding like an irresponsible mother. I hope my mom isn't reading all of this:)

plain cute

Collin loves his baths. Yes at 14 months he still fits in the kitchen sink. Normally he takes them in a normal bath with toys and a big brother to splash with but this occasion was a in place of having to use a million wipes to really get him clean after you know what. Clayton is on the ground in a ball. We were playing charades for family home evening game last week and he did a forward roll and held this position. We guessed many things but not "ball" and that is what he was. Cute! Devin is a big kid at heart. After playing with Clayton's friend's remote control car on New Year's Eve, Devin went out and bought a couple to claim his. He has a monster one but he wanted some for inside use. The boys love them. Can you tell that Collin has the extra controller? Love these boys! A couple of weeks ago on a Sunday drive Devin spotted a herd of elk. We went home and went back with a camera. He was able to get within 50 yards of the elk. Several with large antlers. It was fun to watch him sneak up to them. They were in Lehi down from a mountain side but close to a construction site. It was neat to see them from in the car at 120 yards.