Dallas and Fort worth

The last weekend before Dustun left we went to the Dallas Fort Worth area, and explored and did everything we wanted or thought Abby would like. I had very restful and fun weekend!

Day one we stopped in Waco to the Dr. Pepper museum and had ice cream!

Day two we went tot he zoo, it was a perfect day not to hot or to windy. Abby loved the animals, and I m pretty sure she walked the whole time.

after the zoo we drove around, and of course got a slurpee!

The buildings downtown were cool looking this building had a 3-d angel on it.

We found a restaurant on triple D, they were really good burgers

old truck in front

 

After words abby and I went to bakery and she got a cute cookie!

over all it was a good getaway.

moving

We are moved to AZ now, we drove from TX to AZ and got a house set up then we drove from AZ to UT and visited family there for a while.
below are the pictured from the drive to AZ.

we had to put up a blanket so abby couldn't see hat we were eating, she was trying hard to look over it.

pretend your not eating anything, maybe she wont know.

nope she knows!

he is looking at her like she is crazy

kinda pretty but not very colorful

passed out from coloring

ben had another blow out so we stopped in new Mexico to get everything cleaned agian

getting goofy with hats

18 hours in the car, totally flew by! gotta love the laughs we have!

looking at the light

welcome to Arizona

AZ house

front of house

upstairs looking down

looking at park from backyard.

looking up the stairs, straight into kitchen and left is living room

in front room looking at office and dinning room

laundry room and one of the back doors

back yard and patio

half bath downstairs

mater room, windows face back yard.

master bath window faces front of house

master closet

linen closet

hallway closet

Bens room looking down the stairs

kids bathroom

craft closet

Abbys room looking to mater room

looking at kitchen into laundry room from dining room

back door from dining room

pantry

front room in office facing the front

side of yard

we live in a round about.

I haven't taken the after pictures, but at least this way it gives you an idea of what the house looks like.

todays lesson

I really don't know weather to classify this as homeschooling or just teaching the kids important building blocks. but either way, this morning i was feeling pretty motivated and organized, so i pulled out my learning box i have for Abby and we got started.
the things Abby and I did were:
practiced drawing straight lines to matching animals, she successfully matched all 8 animals together.
learning to color with in the lines, even if its still a jumbled mess you can tell she is trying to stay within the lines of the picture.
We sang our ABC song a couple of times, and of course the F fro fish was Abby so she carried the card around for a while say awww baby fish.
We practices writing and seeing "ABBY"
we practiced her fine motor skills by having her remove the back of the stickers.
we are learning to count correctly to three, because now she has gotten in the habit of saying ONE, TWO, FIVE. so we counted the 3 flower stickers the 3 bug stickers then we counted 3 buttons she could put in her brown parer bag we decorated.
we learned different shapes of the buttons, and cause and affect of putting things in a bag and then dumping them out, we also learned about the noises they make when you shake the bag. we are also learning to say BUTTON and not just BUTT
we also read from a princess comprehension book, so after i read the book i asked her a few questions and i helped her answer correctly. 
now it is quiet reading time, so she is next to me reading and talking to her doll, while I'm blogging, Ben is napping, oh how i love a child that sleeps!

Ben updates, so while i was helping Abby grow and learn to be a bright helpful sweet woman, Ben was also learning how to crawl, climb over my legs, hold onto the learning box to stand, to move his legs in a walking fashion, how things roll, like my cup that had juice in it :) he learned about different textures from pipe cleaners and felt. sounds of buttons inside a jar, where his sisters bubble was :) and looked at the bag of crayons and all the sizes and colors.

homeschool

Today is my first day at doing some homeschooling, I am nervous of how it will go, I fear a melt down from me or Abby, I fear I won't do a good job, or that I will fail her. But due to friends encouragement I know I can do anything I set my mind too, plus I taught her to roll over, crawl, sit-up, walk, run, play, eat, drink, talk, so might as well have all those things I taught her go towards more activity's we all do everyday.

Today's lesson is the letter B and the color Blue
I gathered many things that are blue, or that started with the letter B.
we colored the letter B with a Blue crayon, We made blue macaroni, traced, and said words that started with B.

She played with the Alphabet stamps, she stacked them and we said our A B C's.

She loved the Macaroni the Best, She moved it back and forth from one bowl to the next. It is so interesting to see her intensity with doing a task. She has such a mind set to task and is so stubborn with doing the task.

To wrap it up we did a Baby Einstein Video, went outside to look at the Baby Birds outside.

All in All today being my first day I am very happy with how everything went.