For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise This our grateful hymn of praise.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Babycakes at the Fair



On Friday, September 28, Babycakes and I went off to the LA County Fair for a field trip with the "Mommy & Me" class.


Fortunately, we were all to go off on our own then meet up later.


I say fortunately because, unlike my other children, or most other children, this animal business held his attention for all of 15 minutes. :D


Fortunately, I knew what would hold it, so we wandered over to the Wally Parks NHRA Museum, where he was happy to spend nearly an hour, and would have been more but I thought they might view as overstaying our welcome. ;D (BTW, the museum is free during school hours during the fair, and is only $1 during regular fair hours...if you want to wait until next year.)






Um, yeah. ;)



We saw Ben Franklin, but Babycakes wasn't really interested since he wasn't a machine.


As always, I'd like to use the Pampers lady as a reason women *should* be in the workplace. Seriously, men didn't change diapers back then and it would have taken another 100 years for them to come up with this idea.  Or maybe more since men still wouldn't be changing diapers if disposables hadn't been invented. ;)


Small Zamboni.


Ford. Um, yeah. :)


Cruelly, the K'Nex hands on display was not open. :/


We also went to the Historic Trains Exhibit, which awed and impressed Babycakes.


Even this picture doesn't do the size of the train justice.

Fortunately for you, I took a video. :D





At noon we met some of the folks from the class at the carousel. Babycakes balked at having his picture taken at first but then he saw how much fun everyone was having and couldn't be left out.


Then we went for our first carousel ride on a "real" horse. (It was the moving horse, not the stationary.)


We had a great time, obviously. :)


What on earth is this, you ask? Well, this was desperation accepted. See, BC has this thing about his Pediasure, it has to be in a bottle with a nipple. Well, I forgot the nipple and gave him a straw.  He balked at first, as usual, but then he took it...and drank it all up. Just another big step I'm very happy about. :)

Monday, October 1, 2012

School--Week 5

Monday


The week started in the usual way. :)


But I actually had coffee. It was cool enough...that day. :/


Tuesday











We received our order from My Father's World for Babycakes.

Wednesday




40 Day for Life started. For those who don't stalk me well enough...I have two children who are among the most aborted...the so-called oops, or unwanted, baby (Babycakes) and the so-called imperfect baby (Spock). More than 90% of all abortions are Babycakes babies, about 5% are Spocks. The world would suck without them and, well, I guess it does.



Babycakes working on his math.



He started another day of school. He now goes to Miss Traccee's preschool 2x/week. If he continues to do well with this, we will add a third day in November.



Sitting on his own (without Mom) on the carpet for song time.


We have noticed a huge improvement in his eating. We hope it's positive peer pressure at school and that it will continue. :)


He's starting to respond to the teacher more. He is finally holding his pen the way she showed him.


Reading with a friend.


This is what boys look like when they are chasing bubbles. :)


A little more reading before we leave.


His finished duck.



Off to Puggles in the evening.


Where we learned that God created trees.



And ate gummies and M&M's while everyone else ate ice cream. :D



Played with the parachute.


That's Spock waving as he and Mr Great-heart (two behind him) go off to have their ice cream.

 Thursday


Thursday started out normal enough.


Played with our MFW, er, that would be, we did school. ;)


This is what was waiting for me when I went to pick up the kids at school.


Due to said sleepyhead, we were late to ballet and didn't get the lone table.


Friday


Free dress day. Spock and Mr Great-heart wore their AWANA T&T shirts.


I was up most of the night so I stopped by Coffee Bean with Babycakes before...


going to the fair for the Mommy & Me class field trip. I will post those photos in another entry...unless you really want 500 pics on this one. ;)


Saturday


Off to the zoo on our last free Saturday until after Christmas. These photos will also go into another entry...see previous note.

Sunday


Sunday I "made up for" free dress day as I had to iron their chapel clothes. They sang at the Lutheran church where their school is located. If you want to see the video, you'll have to become my Facebook friend. ;D