Pruitt Playschool (Letter H)

After taking a few weeks off over Christmas, we started back with the letter "H" this week! It was nice to be back in somewhat of a routine after traveling so much over the holidays! Owen had a lot of fun this week with the letter "H"!

Our bible verse for the week:
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.   Hebrews 13:8

I introduced the letter "H" with my new favorite activity: Dot Paint!! :)

We went on a hunt for "H's" in a container of dried beans! Owen loves using the tongs to find random stuff in the beans!

Grace Ann LOVES watching her big brother do anything!

Justin was able to snap a picture of us doing an activity sorting candy hearts! Owen wanted to eat the hearts instead of sort them! You can tell in this picture that he really wanted to eat them instead of sorting them by colors! We did let him eat them after he ate supper!

Another candy heart activity! This time we made a graph of the candy hearts. Once Owen discovered that the candy hearts really tasted like chalk, he was not interested in eating them and could concentrate better on the activity! :)

Sweet girl playing in Owen's room during "school"!

Justin didn't have class on Friday because of the snow so Owen got to spend some time with his daddy! After they came in from playing in the snow, they enjoyed some hot chocolate! Cheers! :)

We got an ipad for Christmas!!! I love playing with my new toy...and so does Owen! :) He LOVES the ipad! I have download some educational apps that we use during our "school". The ones we used this week were Starfall, and ABC's of God.

Owen also got Leap Frog Fridge Phonics for Christmas. He has really enjoyed trying out all the different letters when he walks by the fridge.

Mimi got Owen his own white board to play with.  Justin has several white boards that he writes on when he studies and Owen has always enjoyed writing on his so now he has his own to play with. I wrote down several letters and had him circle all of the "H's".  He found all of them and circled them by himself!

We traced our hands! After I traced each hand he wanted me to trace his elbows...not sure why.  So if you notice something funny on the picture of his hands, it's his elbows. :)

Attempting to color a picture of a house.  He is not too interested in coloring these days but we both enjoyed watching Grace Ann try to eat the crayons! She LOVES standing up holding onto things!

Our bulletin board with some of the activities we did for the letter "H" this week!

Our First Tennessee Christmas

We kept the roads hot this Christmas traveling back and fourth from family in Alabama to our home in Tennessee.  Justin had 3 weeks off from school so we decided to make two different trips to Alabama. The first trip to Alabama was to visit family and celebrate both of our moms birthdays and to celebrate our 6 year wedding anniversary! :)

We came back to Tennessee on December 20th to spend Christmas Eve and the few days leading up to it at our own house.  It was important to me that the kids slept in their own beds and woke up on Christmas morning at their own house. We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with just our little family! Owen and I baked Christmas cookies and then make some cupcakes for a birthday party for Jesus. We ordered pizza and came back home and had a picnic in the living room and watched a Christmas movie. After we ate pizza, we celebrated Jesus' birthday! :)  

Christmas morning was wonderful! :) It was so much fun to see Owen get so excited about his presents! We had a slow easy morning with the kids and then headed south again to celebrate with family! There was NO traffic and we made it to Huntsville in record time (4 hrs and 3 min!)!! We really enjoyed being at home in Tennessee Christmas morning and I think we will do the same thing next year!





Owen got lots of tools for Christmas! :)

Grace Ann started to get the hang of opening presents!

Owen and his workbench that Santa brought him!

This picture is a little blurry but I love it because you can see the excitement on his face! Buzz flew a hundred miles on our way to Huntsville! :)

Grace Ann and all of her Christmas presents! I started taking a picture of Owen and all of his presents his first Christmas and have done one ever since.  It's so fun to look back and see what they got each year!

I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone!  Next week we will start up Pruitt Playschool again!! I have missed it! We will be starting back with the letter "H"!! 

Pruitt Playschool (Christmas Fun!)

We took a break from learning letters the past few weeks and had some fun doing Christmas crafts and activities! 

We made a candy cane out using white strips of paper!  He also discovered that the letter "J" looks like an upside down candy cane!

I printed out an activity that had numbered stockings for him to count and glue on a picture of a fireplace.  There were 10 stockings but only 8 of them would fit on our fireplace! He did pretty well with this activity after he stopped just trying to match the stockings! :)

This was another fun activity where "Merry Christmas" was spelled out on ornaments and then he I cut out ornaments with the letters printed on them and he matched them. He LOVED this and actually sat at his table and completed the entire thing without getting up for a "break"! We enjoyed bringing his table in the living room to work in front of the Christmas tree!

Grace Ann had fun playing with the reindeer while we were working!

We went to Michelle's house and let the kids paint a Christmas tree using their hands!  Michelle taught Kindergarten for several years so she was a HUGE help with this activity! My kiddos were not too excited about having their hands painted green! After the paint dried we decorated our trees with sequins!

We enjoyed reading all of our Christmas books over the past couple of weeks!

Justin and Owen bought a gingerbread house the other day at the store so they put it together one morning.  Owen was so excited about his house! He was also a huge help putting it together! :)

My little princess watching the boys make the gingerbread house! Next year, we will have two helpers!

Papa bought Owen a really cool pancake griddle with an angel, reindeer, Santa, and a snowman design!  He LOVED eating his special pancakes!

Owen really liked snowmen this year so of course we had to do a little snowman craft! He can even sing part of  the "Frosty the Snowman" song! 

I think he caught on with the Advent calendar this year!

Our board with all of the Christmas crafts and activities we did over the past few weeks!

LOVE these kids!! :)

Merry Christmas!!

Ice Skating

After Justin took his last test of his first semester of medical school we headed to Knoxville for a little fun with the kids!  Knoxville has this really neat downtown area with an outdoor ice skating rink so we decided to let Owen try it out. I wasn't sure he would even let us put the ice skates on his feet since they look and feel so different from his "sharp shoes" but he let Justin put them on him with no problem!
**On a side note, I thought that he had been calling his blue shoes his "shark shoes" but I recently discovered (thanks to my nana) that he has been calling them his "sharp shoes"! Someone told him that he looked sharp in them the first time he put them on so ever since they have been his "sharp shoes"! After he had the ice skates on he was on the ice and loving every minute of it!! He had a blast and did really well holding Justin's hand.

I just LOVE his little feet in these ice skates!! :)

 So proud of my little man!  Next adventure: skiing!!!! We hope to take a trip to Gatlinburg once it gets cold enough for them to make snow and let Owen try skiing!  It's just a short drive from our house and I think he would have a blast!

 

Girls Night Out and Breakfast with Santa!

One of my mommy friends hosted a Perfectly Post party at her house on Friday so Grace Ann and I went to check it out! It was a lot of fun getting to go somewhere with just her!!  It was also MUCH easier with just one child to keep up with! :)  She did great during the party and even sat in my lap while I got a foot massage! I'm so excited about getting to paint her toenails!!  Is 8 months too early?? JK

Here we are before we left to go to the party!

My little man wanted to get a picture with mommy before we left!

 I just had to post a picture of her hair because I want to remember what it looked like when she was this age!!  Poor thing has some wild hair!! I'm ready for her hair to grow so I can play with it and fix it really cute!! Ha! I'm sure when she gets older I'll miss this wild hair!!

The Middlesboro library hosts a breakfast with Santa every year so we took the kids this past Saturday. Owen was so excited that Santa was going to be at the library! Justin was able to take a small break from studying so he could go with us! Owen had a wonderful time and I think he would still be sitting in Santa's lap if we didn't make him get up so he could visit with other kids!! :)

This picture was taken as soon as Santa walked in the room!!

Owen and Natalie watched Santa's every step!

Don't let this picture fool you!! Owen was in HEAVEN!!! He listened to every word Santa spoke and answered every question he asked!! Grace Ann actually did much better than I had thought!! :)

Family picture at breakfast with Santa!!