Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Fall Pictures

This weekend while at a birthday party, we discovered a fabulous new park here in NWA -- it's actually named Wilson Park -- and I think it's going to be our new favorite place to play!! So, Tuesday afternoon I hauled the kids (Harrison just getting over another fever virus!) to the park to capture the last of the pretty fall days around here.

Future tree hugger????
Another fall leaf.

Harrison was NOT wanting his picture taken, so I just let him go and focused on Madeleine.
Love this face!
Harrison's CHEESE face.
There's this Gigantic tree that just begs to be climbed!




Yep, this is how I look after only a few hours of sleep thanks to Harrison being sick!
While at the park, Madeleine and I collected a bunch of different leaves and are planning to do some Leaf Rubbings together this week. She's getting so big!! It's such fun to do crafts and fun little activities with her -- always during Harrison's naptime, of course! He's on a "crayon-break" since he's been using the wall as his canvas of choice lately. Thank goodness for the aquadoodle!
On another note, Madeleine is doing great at preschool this year! She can spell A BUNCH of words -- pretty much all the colors and can read/write a good handful of words as well. She wants to know how to spell EVERYTHING. She copies words and we're working on sounding out words as well. She's so proud of herself when she finds a word she knows in the book we're reading! I can't believe how fast she's catching on to this! I still find myself amazed at her -- it's such an incredible feeling to SEE her learning how to read & getting to help her.
We did have our first little teacher conference today, though. She and a boy in her class we caught kissing!!! Yikes! Apparently he was trying to kiss both of the girls in the class! So we've had to talk about how that it's only okay to kiss the people in your family -- not friends. However, it does make me feel that we're doing a pretty good job of keeping her innocence since she didn't think anything of kissing someone else -- she didn't know that was NOT okay. She and Harrison are SUPER-affectionate, as is our whole family, so I think it's just natural for her. But, I didn't think her first kiss would come in preschool. :)

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