Wright Patt Carnival

A few weeks back we had seen signed advertising the Wright Patt Carnival.  It's not sponsored by Wright Patt AFB - that's just the location of the carnival.  The kids loved riding rides at the fair last summer, so we thought it would be a fun treat to take them to the carnival.  The idea was good in theory, but we will not be going back in the future.  There wasn't anything "wrong" with it - it was just small with only a few rides for the kids.  And the rides seemed (to us) to be...boring.  Even so, the kids really enjoyed themselves and had a good time, so it wasn't a complete bust.

This first ride was one of those spin 'n twirl ones.  Drew and I both rode it with the kids...and we both felt a little queasy afterward.  Funny how that doesn't affect you as much when you're a kid!

They both love the merry-go-round!  They went on that one a few times.

Octopus ride - one of the ones that seemed to be very BORING.  It just went around in circles as opposed to going up and down as well as around, but, like I said, they seemed to enjoy it anyway.

Hannah hanging out in her stroller.

This was a fun one, and of course the fact that it was a fire truck made it even better for Grant.

By far Jenna's favorite ride - the swings!  Grant wasn't tall enough yet to ride this ride, which I'm fine with.  I was nervous just having Jenna on it with how high you go.  Or at least how high it appears you go from my viewpoint on the ground.

Overall it was a fun time, but I think from now on we'll save our carnival rides for the Miami County Fair in August.

Kristin's 30th Birthday Celebration

For my 30th birthday, Drew planned a great, fun-filled weekend!  He invited my parents, and my sister's family to join us for a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.  Then after the game, my parents would take Jenna and Grant back to their house while Drew, Hannah, and I stayed at a hotel in the area and did some shopping on Saturday.  Unfortunately, the weather did not agree with Drew's plans, so we had to split up the weekend and postpone the baseball game for another day.  Drew, Hannah, and I still went down to Cinci that weekend, and had a great time with lots of shopping and uninterrupted adult conversations!  :) 

The baseball game was rescheduled for May 10th and, once again, the weather was looking "iffy."  The forecast called for lots of rain and possibly thunderstorms.  Just as we got to our seats it started lightly raining, so we just moved back a few rows until we were under the awning.  The rain didn't last long and there weren't any thunderstorms, so the weather turned out to be pretty nice!  The game was a lot of fun and even Jenna and Grant really enjoyed it.  Grant was mesmerized by the fire that would blow out of two torches whenever the other team struck out.  And of course, what's a baseball game without food?!  We enjoyed the $1 hotdogs, popcorn, soft pretzels, and ice-cream.  Hannah did alright, but this was pre-pacifier, so she required a lot of walking and bouncing.  Drew was GREAT though and held her the majority of the game, so I could enjoy my birthday gift.  What a great guy I have!!  :)

Daddy and his Hannah

Jenna eating (and wearing) her ice-cream

Grant using two hands to stuff popcorn in his mouth.  Ha!

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Daddy with his two big kids

Love my sister!  Isn't she just beautiful?!

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Kelley bought some cotton candy and let Jenna and Grant try it for the first time.  I was shocked to find that neither of them like it.  What kids don't like cotton candy?!  :)  I'm not complaining though.

Jenna loves her Aunt Kelley

View of the field - I promise we did watch some of the game amid all the picture-taking and chatting.  :)

The boys

The girls - minus Hannah.  She was asleep in her car seat.

At the end of the game, they had an AMAZING fireworks show.  We thought they would just set off a few fireworks and that would be it, but it was unbelievable!  It was even better than Troy's 4th of July fireworks.  SO GOOD!  The kids were mesmerized by them.

Drew and Hannah enjoying the show

 

What a great 30th birthday celebration!!  Thanks Drew for planning this and making my birthday extra special!  And thanks Dad, Mom, Kell, and Brian for joining us!

Week 27 - Letter W

Wow, have I gotten away from blogging and from doing school with Jenna.  The warmer weather makes me want to spend every minute outdoors with the kids as opposed to inside doing school.  So we've taken a break for a few weeks and have just started getting back into it this week.  I'm determined to finish the alphabet - we only have a few letters left! 

BEFORE we took our hiatus from school, we had done letter W - I just hadn't blogged about it.

Our memory verse that week was 1 John 4:19 - "We love Him because He first loved us." 

Some of our W activities...

Wikki Stix

Watermelon Lacing Card

Size Sort

Letter Maze

Prewriting Practice

Color Puzzles

Phonics Page

Number Writing

Letter Writing

Letter Hunt

Number matching file folder game

Watermelon coloring page

Watermelon Shape Puzzles - Jenna wanted to put them together like a pizza

Patterns

I just had her put the watermelon slices in order by the number of seeds.

Do-a-dot page

Cutting Page

Cut and paste - I thought she did a great job!

Grant likes to pull out some file folder games while we do school.  He has a few favorites - one of which is the snake game.  He has to match the colored grass to the same colored snake.  I attached velcro pieces so he can stick them on without them moving or falling off.

Watermelon puzzle

For her ABC book, she colored the "W" like a watermelon with a little bit of green on one side and red on top with some black seeds.

Letter W pattern blocks

She made the letter W on the geoboard all by herself!

Then we added the W to our coconut tree!

So of course we had to have some watermelon this week!  It's one of the kids' favorite snacks.

As Grant would say...DEE-WISHUS!!

They pretty much devoured this container of watermelon.