It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Bobby has been busy drawing, writing and creating projects.  This is his latest creation and since it was a star (Mommy's favorite shape) I had to take a picture.

 We did our annual shopping trip for ornaments.  Emmy picked out Draculora and Bobby chose a cupcake that said "Happy Birthday Jesus!" and he told me this was because this is the real reason we celebrate at Christmastime and what the holiday is truly about.  "without Jesus, we'd all be dead!" he told me.  I was so proud of him for understanding this important concept.

 We took a trip to the zoo to enjoy the weather before the first winter blizzard was to hit Bismarck.  We watched a Golden Eagle animal training and the kids asked great questions.  Then we walked around and looked at everything else the zoo has to offer.  The kids are still so into learning about animals and Emmy swears that she needs to be a vet or animal trainer for her career.

We participated in the hanging of the greens this past weekend at church.  The kids brought the poinsettias up to the front of the church.  I got to help this weekend with Sunday school and so I witnessed the kids doing this first hand.  It is always a fun time.

Girl time and Boy time

 Emmy told me she was in real need of some time with me and I love spending one on one time with her as well.  We decided manicures were in order with a trip to starbucks on the way home (we brought Bobby home a treat too).  Bobby and Robb headed out to go bowling and finished up the night with a steak meal.  Bobby had at least 2 bites in his mouth at once.

Bobby told me he currently has aspirations of going to the White house someday and becoming President.  I can live there too since his wife will be Heather Lundeen's daughter Chloe and she likes me.

Parent teacher conferences - SUCCESS

Here is a video of Bobby reading.  Emmy writes him books and he then reads them now.  He loves to identify sight words and sound out other words.  He is excellent at math and we learned that he is doing math problems at a 1st grade level.  His teacher told us he is doing math skills and she hasn't even taught those skills yet!  She also scored him far above his age for reading, writing and other skills.  Overall he is a little smarty and we were very proud.  Emmy had an equally as good report.  She is reading at a 4th grade level and her teacher told us that she is going to challenge her and teach her at that level.  All of her other skills are above and are scoring at the end of the year marks similar to Bobby.  Essentially Bobby and Emmy are scoring with end of the year testing scores.  Robb and I left there glowing.  Emmy's teacher told us we could work on little things like how Emmy holds the pencil, how she demonstrates non verbals to losing games she plays with others (hmmmmm, sounds familiar...she doesn't like losing).  Bobby can work on sitting still and being in control of his busy body.  Those teachers really know our kids and gave us ideas on how we can work on those things but more importantly assured us that intelligence and learning are areas they are doing very well in.  We celebrated with a McDonald's dinner and they each earned 3 books they got to pick out at the Book Fair.

Trick of Treat and Hunting season

 

The parents had a fun Halloween party as a super couple and the kids enjoyed trick or treating again this year with their cousins dressed as a cheerleader (Emmy) and Bobby and a transformer named Bumblebee.  Dad left for hunting season and we made a special morning trip to Starbucks.  It was a great past week!