On the road

Well we officially left our home in Canada on Friday. We had a few hiccups trying to pack and clean and graduate all within the span of a few days. Thankfully we made it out with no complications. We are slowly making our way to California with several stops along the way. Think of us as we travel. I will try to post some pictures over the next few days.

More family pictures

Here are some more of the photos that our friend took for us. I am so happy with how they turned out. Logan was the only one who did not want to smile and I think it was because he was cold and ready for a morning nap!

Running

Yesterday was field day here on campus. Both of the boys were very excited to watch the events and participate in a race of their own!

Here they are waiting for the events to start, drinking their smoothies. Even Logan was having fun!

Carsten was up first in the 25 meter race for ages 1-2. He came in second place!

Rylan was up next in the 25 meter race for ages 3-4. He won his race and was smiling the whole time!

Next they did a race for the women, so I decided to participate. Boy was that a mistake. I am too old and too out of shape! I am still sore today!! I came in 4th out of 6 people.

It was a really nice and warm day outside! We all had a good time!

Recently Rylan ran the 400m with his PE class. His time was 2:44. Pretty good for a 4-year-old!

Boys on the bridge

Here are some more photos that our friend took the other day. There are none of Logan yet, but here are a few of Rylan and Carsten.

Family Pictures

We are very fortunate to have a good friend who is also a great photographer! She offered to take pictures of our family at no cost! We are really excited about the few we have seen so far. I thought I would post our two favorites, but there will be more to come!

Learning fun

I have been looking at different blogs to get ideas for educational things to do with the boys. I am planning on homeschooling Rylan this fall for kindergarten so I am just getting the ideas flowing. I am also planning to do some preschool activities for Carsten, so I am looking for those ideas as well. It is amazing how many blogs are out there with great ideas! I decided to try a few of them out. I made some changes because I wanted to use items I already had in my house. Here are a some pictures of how it went. I think the boys loved it!

Count the beads: I wrote numbers on the inside of an egg carton and told Rylan to put the correct number of beads in each cup. He did great counting with numbers from 0-11.

Color Match: I colored the inside of an egg carton with six different colors, each found twice. I gave Carsten the corresponding pom-poms and told him to put them in the cup that was the same color. He did great!

Match the sound: I put the letters A-E on a mason jar. I grabbed a bunch of different items from around the house and put them in a container. I told Rylan to put the object in the jar with the sound of the letter it started with. He would pick up each item and say what it was and try to make the sound it started with. He needed some help with a few like: a googly eye- he said, "that letter is not here." The English language does not help with this since we make a lot of the same sounds using different letters. He has done it a few times and he really enjoys it!

And here is what little Logan was doing while his big brothers were learning:

Crawling around, putting everything into his mouth!

Night away

A few weeks ago I had got invited to spend a night with some friends in a city about an hour and half away from here. There were four of us that got together for the night. Three of us happen to have little boys within 3 months of each other! It was really fun to see the babies interact with one another. It was really refreshing for me to get away for a night and have one last hurrah with these women!

Logan was content to just sleep!

Playing on the floor together