TR Fall Festival

Wyatt and I attended the TR Fall Festival this year and it was a blast. Since our school is under construction and we have very limited space to do anything even teach, we partnered up with another school, Bluemont, and had our Fall Festivals together. I can say that it was very successful. There were three bouncy houses, horse wagon/carriage rides, games, pumpkin patch, live singers/entertainment, Vista Burger, Doughboy Pizza, Coldstone Creamery, Sunset Zoo, train rides, and so much more that I can't think of.

Bouncy, bouncy

Having a blast with the other kids.

Look at me!

This was the first one we went on.

Brooke sending us some love!

This is the one we went on the second time.

Thanks Becky for taking the picture and hanging with us at the Festival. :)

Artist Alley Weekend

This weekend Wyatt and I went back to Chanute for Artist Alley and we had a blast. I was super excited because he's finally big enough to start enjoying all of the fun things like: bouncy house, train rides, parades, and walking around shopping. Well probably not so much the last one but the others yes. We rolled into town Friday night and hit the sack. We woke up bright and early Saturday and headed downtown first thing.
We took Wyatt to the Masonic Temple for a free program to help make an identity kit for him if he is ever kidnapped or missing. They took his fingerprints, a picture, our info, and then made a video of Wyatt saying his name that we have. They even gave us a swab so we can rub it in his mouth and then put it in the freezer for a DNA sample. That went okay and he didn't really care for everything but did fine.
Then we headed downtown and we were the first ones in line for the bouncy house. He started jumping then decided he didn't want to so I climbed in with him. That didn't work either, he wanted out. I say let's go when he finally decides to jump. I think the extra kiddos that showed up to jump as well were an added bonus for him.

After the bouncy house we had to head to the Train Depot for our train ride. My mom and I went with Wyatt and we met Stacie, Abraham, her mom and dad, sister, niece, and nephew for the train ride. It was a blast and Wyatt loved it. I of course had to buy him a souvenir shirt to commemorate the experience and can't wait for him to wear it.

Nancy and Abraham

Wyatt and Momma (Please excuse the double chin!)

Giving his Momma some love.

Hey friend!

Let me share my hat with you.

Stacie and Abraham looking out the window.

Getting off the train.

After the train ride we watched the parade and then headed to lunch followed by a much needed nap for the boys. Stacie and I headed back downtown for some child-free shopping time. We ran into some old friends and had a blast just walking around.
Today we had to head back home but before we did we had lunch with my mom, dad, and grandma. We took advantage of the beautiful weather and got some photo ops with Wyatt, Poppa Flash and Great Gram.

Wyatt and Poppa Flash

Great Gram and Wyatt

We had an absolutely wonderful weekend and feel really blessed to have such wonderful family and friends!

Playing school

Now I don't normally play "school" with my child because I get to "play" school everyday as my job but this morning we tried it out. My mom bought Wyatt a preschool activity book at Sam's Club several months ago and he really just liked to look at the pictures and comment on them but today he actually wanted to do the activities in it. He was looking at the pages where you had to circle items that were of a certain color. So I read the directions and then he used his marker to circle the correct pictures. I wasn't surprised to see that he could pick out the colors but I was surprised that he actually listened to me read the directions and then followed them.

The second page is where you can tell that he lost interest and just wanted to color the items he liked best.

So we tried one more page and then called it quits.

As you can see from the last two pages he was engaged until then. I was happy with what he did and didn't push him any farther. Even though I'm a teacher I don't try to push Wyatt to do more than what I think he's capable of and WANTS to do. I'm sure this will change once he's in school and it will start being less of what he wants and more of what he should do but we'll cross that bridge when we get there, no rush!!

A present from Uncle Matthew

Wyatt got a package in the mail on Thursday and we had to wait until Saturday to get it from the post office and he was super excited. We walked to the post office and Wyatt carried his package the whole way home and when we opened it he was surprised. His Uncle Matthew sent him a pair of cowboy boots and an OSU jersey. He put them on right away and didn't want to take them off.

This one reminds me of the Captain Morgan commercials!

And the award goes to...

me!!! While I was wiping Wyatt's butt after he pooped in the potty he gave me a vote of confidence that I was doing the right thing when he said, "Good job, Mommy!". I cracked up and had to ask Mike for sure what he said and he confirmed what I heard. I'm just glad to hear that I'm doing something right and the words of encouragement never hurt. :)

Mommy and Daddy

Wyatt's new thing is to ask where someone's/something's mommy and daddy are. This evening he was talking about "Mantis" and telling me that he went back to the garden to be with his mommy and daddy. I told him that he did and it was nice of him to let him go back to his family. Then out of curiosity I asked him who Garfield's mommy and daddy were and he told me that we were. I thought this was really cute and I'm so glad that he's putting the connection together that everyone has a mommy and daddy.

Mantis

Yesterday Mike found a praying mantis in the garden and brought it in for Wyatt to keep in his creature keeper for a day....or two. We finally decided to let him go this afternoon and we decided to put him back in the garden, where he came from. We didn't know how Wyatt would react to letting him go but he was actually excited to let it go and put it back in the garden.

Taking Mantis outside to be released.

He was really big.

Just a little more torture before you are completely free. I'll shake the plant you're on!

Wyatt Updates

I know I said I would have more time to blog after I got through the first week of school but after spending nearly 3 hours at school today making copies and finalizing stuff for the week I've realized I'm going to need more time.
So I thought I would give you a quick update of what Wyatt is doing.
-Talking up a storm and telling stories non-stop.
-Working on drawing shapes. His favorite to make is a circle.
-Learning to recognize our letters and their sounds.
-Working on recognizing numbers and counting out loud.
-Sings songs all the time and will often request us to sing along with him.
-Dances while he sings and know actions that goes along with songs.
-Working on pedaling his tractor by himself all the time.
-Wants to read books constantly. We go to the library weekly and pick out new ones.
-Getting pickier about food by the day.
-Addicted to fruit snacks and would eat them morning, noon, and night if I let him.
-Moved to a new room at his daycare and so far the transition has been pretty painless.
-Knows the days of the week.
-Can be very bossy when he wants to be.
-Puts himself in timeout sometimes. :)

That's all that I can think of right now but I'm sure there's a lot I've missed. Hopefully there will be more blog updates after the second week of school!