Are you ready for some Football?

Well, ready or not, football season comes sometimes all too fast at this house! While football season is fun and exciting it also means the Daddy of this house is gone more working hard as he coaches. We love to support him at his games though!

So I found a preschool theme and ideas for football on the internet here and ran with it! We read football books, discussed the game, played football at home, and watched a game or two in person and on tv! We learned F is for football, fun, fall, frogs and so many other words! Here are a few snapshots from our week.

Ready to watch Daddy's 1st game!

Ready, Set, Hut!

Daddy and his two biggest fans!

We made brownie shaped footballs!

Yummy!

We even got to see Papa officiate a high school game and do what he loves! 

Apples, Apples, Apples...

The boys and I are having a lot of fun working on learning new things together. A few weeks ago we learned all about apples. We read apple books, tasted different apples, painted with apples, wrote the letter A over and over again. To top off our awesome week of apple learning we baked an amazing apple cake together! Overall we just had fun. I really hope to make it to the one apple orchard that I have found in the DFW area at some point, although it is an hour and half away and they (as all Texans) had a rough and hot summer. We'll see. But I do think that would be so fun to go and pick apples. We did this a few years ago in Colorado when the boys were littler and it was so fun!

The boys are still receptive to the things I am trying to teach them and when Pearson says he is "done" we stop. I want to keep it fun!
Here are some pictures of our fun week with apples.

Pearson matching magnetic letters to flash cards.

Our apple books

 I actually got really brave (for me at least) and bought temperant paint! Then we painted with apples!

Sorting letters by color.

The Many Faces of Aaron

So we had a little fun with the camera last week and here is what we have: The Many Faces of Aaron!

Happy Face!

Silly Face!

Goofy Smile!

Sweet and innocent

Surprised face!

Trying to make a mean face, but not so much!

This precious ball of energy is fun loving, sweet, independent, and sometime honorary. He adds so much joy to our family. He recently gave up his "baba" aka, paci, and at times he does miss it. But if he can say, "Uh-oh, baba broke", then it was time to give it up.

Here is one more picture of him after he found a permanent black marker while Mommy was distracted on the computer, oops! Thankfully a fast bath and warm water got this mark right off!

He doesn't seem phased at all, does he!?!

B is for Birthday!

Our first preschool theme was Birthdays! We celebrated JP's birthday and read books all about birthdays. We worked on the letter B, the color orange, and one shape. The boys did well. I didn't push it too much, when JP said he was done we stopped. I want to keep it fun and light. Stay tuned for more fun with D is for Dinosaurs!

A few of our birthday books...

CA practicing coloring over the letter B.

JP concentrating on tracing. We are enjoying using expo wipe on markers and sheet protectors.

More tracing practice.

Playing a fun matching game.

A favorite activity: coloring with dot markers.