We made it...

100 days!

Now how many days till summer vacation!

FALL

Ashton's Presentation of Learning was on Friday. He chose Fall as his favorite season. He had to wear clothes that fit his season and he had to bring something in...he wore a long sleeve shirt, pants and a USC hat cause daddy said "football season is in the Fall." He brought in Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies and he wrote down all the ingredients too.

 He was sitting by Charley and when I wanted to take Ashton's picture Charley said "with me too!" :)

 The kids swarmed Ashton because of his cookies, it was so funny to watch.

 I ran upstairs and got Si so she could come and listen to Ashton's Presentation.

 Daddy came too!

A few days ago, I got the kids from school and Ashton told me that he wrote so good today like "grown up writing!" :) This was the first time that Ashton's assignment in class was to have a rough draft and then a final draft. Look how GREAT his printing is on his Final Draft! :)

Great Job Ashton!!!

11/11/11 and tomorrow we race!

Jake's Great-Grandpa Elmo is the only Veteran in our family that is still alive. Yesterday Ashton was supposed to bring the star back to school with a veteran family member, their relation to you and what part of the armed forces were they a part of. He was excited to put his Great-Grandpa's name on the star and draw a picture of him on the ship.

We called Great-Grandpa tonight and wished him a Happy Veteran's Day! We are grateful to all our Veterans, their courage, bravery, sacrifice to keep us safe as we continue to enjoy our freedoms.
And tomorrow is our (me and mom's) Half Marathon. YAY! We're ready! We even ate a big plate of spaghetti for dinner! :)

Discovering the trick

Today was MUCH better. After a long weekend I was nervous taking my kids to school but...the trick is to go early. Then Ashton gets busy playing GaGa and I tell him I will go put his backpack in his cubby and then I'm going. He was ok with that. There we go. So for tomorrow I have started laying out what will go in their lunches. Water bottles are full and in the fridge, celery in baggies and in the fridge, fruit strip and oranges on the counter. We are ready so our morning will hopefully go much faster and we can get there early again tomorrow. YAY! Here's to many more happy mornings!

Presentations and the Flea Market

This is the Gaga Pit. Ashton loves this game. You cannot touch the ball with your feet or legs. You hit the ball with your hand and try to get another person out by hitting them with the ball in the legs.
Ashton did his presentation today in front of his whole class. WOW! He has made leaps and bounds. He would have NEVER done that at the beginning of this year. He mentioned the Gaga Pit as one of his favorite memories in Kindergarten along with, Fridays because we get to go home early :) (well Sierra does!), computer time, the Pumpkin Patch because he got to take home a pumpkin, the Gentle Barn, going to the Getty and his favorite part of the Getty was sitting under the pink flowers. Good Job buddy!
Daddy even came, that was special! Mommy is always at school but not Daddy! :)

and then we went to the Flea Market. All the kids in 4th grade had to take out a loan from their parents and will pay it back with interest. Then with that money they had to buy supplies from their teachers. Make a product and today they sold their product. Sierra's group made headbands and were one of the first groups to sell out. They made enough to pay back their loan and they made a profit. What a great experience for these kids to learn this concept at such a young age.

Kooky Kids was their shops name so they dressed Kooky. I think they look pretty cute! :)

Everything Grows and Bumble Bee

Cousin Marshall got a new car and wanted to show it off to us at softball practice...when he drove up I said, "Hey it's BUMBLE BEE!"

Ashton had a presentation day today. "Everything Grows"

They have watched tadpoles grow and change...

Silk worms...

The chicks have grown alot and have even started to get their feathers.

Confessions

I am always receiving good praises in regards to my Ashton, "he is so quiet, so well-behaved, such a good boy, never a problem."
Last night Ashton was in the bath and he says to me..."mom, I was naughty at school today." What?! "During read-to-self I didn't do it, I looked at the calendar and petted the chicks."
me: hmmm...are you going to make better choices tomorrow?
A: Yep
Then today he tells me, "I was naughty again today." WHAT?! "me and Darren were trading silly bands during Spanish class."
me: well, are you going to be naughty tomorrow or are you going to make good choices?
A: Make good choices!
We shall see! :)

Everything Grows

Right now in K-1 they are learning that everything grows. They have changed caterpillars into butterflies and released them...and they have meal worms that they will get to watch change into moths...they have just recently hatched chicks, they are only 1 day old and there are 3 or 4 more eggs that have to hatch still. We watched a chick hatch out of its egg yesterday and it was amazing! Today I got to hold a chick and walk around to the class and let them pet it...so, Ashton got to pet it and they are oh, SO CUTE!

The Gentle Barn

Today I had the pleasure of going with my boy on his K Field Trip to The Gentle Barn. The Gentle Barn is a fascinating organization. The owners have a home on the property. This is their farm. They have 130 animals and they are a rescue organization. All of the animals they have are rescued from terrible situations. They rehabilitate them, they fix their bodies and their hearts. My Ashton is not a farmer, he is very timid and afraid of the animals. That's ok, his momma is too! :) But I convinced him to touch the sheep because they are so fluffy. This is Monte the Turkey, he gobbles when you say his name...the owners do not eat meat so, no Monte will not get eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.

Ashton wanted a picture with this huge pig and there was an even huger pig laying down in the stall but Ashton wouldn't go near him.

While we were there a chicken layed two eggs. I got to feel the egg, it was still warm. The man who works there said that the owners do not eat the eggs. What?! Seriously! I asked what they do with them, "they feed them to the chickens, see..." and he threw the egg on the ground and it broke and two chickens ran over and started eating the egg. Crazy!

Peacock=AWESOME! What more can I say! Farmer Ellie said he was showing off for us. :)

At the end of our day we got to brush the cows...(that's Ashton in the red sweatshirt, it was just a bit freezing!)

Ashton's first presentation

K-1 did their first presentations today in the MPR. They each had to choose a community leader and research them. Ashton chose a builder, his PAPA!

In his picture it is Papa and Uncle Rich and they are holding hammers.

1. My Papa has been in the community his whole life, since birth, 1957.

2. My Great Grandpa and Great Great Grandpa were also builders in the Santa Clarita Valley, my Papa is 3rd generation builder.

3. He has been a builder for over 30 years.

4. He has built over 100 custom houses in our community.

5. He has also built a few commercial buildings too.

Ashton's first field trip...

Yesterday K-1 went to Faulkner Farm. Ashton said to me, "this is my first field trip." Well, he went on some in preschool but this WAS his first at his big boy school.

What a great day we had together...I was so thrilled that we were not going to Lombardi's. Falkner Farm was similar to Lombardi's but DIFFERENT. I like Lombardi's, don't get me wrong, I have just been on 1 to many field trips there.
This is my Ashton with his new best friend Carson (they have really clicked) and Emily.

The class with Mrs. Curtis on top of the hay pyramid.


The hay maze was super fun, Ashton went through it once and then came back for me and we went through together. :)

The sun was brutal in this picture but we had to take a picture together on the tractor trailer that took us on our tour.

These pumpkins were huge and so fun to sit on. :)

Ashton is not a huge fan of the petting zoo but he got to see baby ducks and baby chickies. :) That was fun!

Lastly, he got to pick a pumpkin. The highlight!

Thanks Ashton for spending the day with me, what a FUN day!

Adventures with Biscuit!

On Friday was pajama day at school and the kids LOVED that! Ashton got picked to take Biscuit home. Fun for Biscuit started right away!
He jumped on the trampoline!

On Saturday he got to go with me and Ashton to Lincoln's soccer game...Lincoln scored a goal right when we got there. His team is really good, they kept scoring on the other team and the other team's coach even threw up her hands and called it quits, WHAT?! Who does that when you're coaching 4 and 5 year old's. Her asst. coach stepped in.


It started raining on us while we were there. We all ran for the trees. :)

Biscuit was here for the pick of our first watermelon!

And he got a good night's rest with Ashton, who has been sleeping in his bed the whole night for the past 2 nights, YAY!!!