Family Math Night

Earlier this week, Erika's school hosted a family math night.  Since Matt had a meeting that evening, I dragged Sarah with me and the kids to go play some math games.  George Fox University, which is here in Newberg, hosted with education students in charge of the math games for the kids.  It was a lot of fun!  I was really impressed with how quickly the Fox students adapted the lesson they were teaching to the kids' age understanding.  It was designed for K-2nd graders, but they did great involving Levi and Laurel as well!  All the kids had a great time...especially playing Bingo with fruit snacks!

 

The highlight of the evening was probably wearing the head lamp while walking to school.

Levi thrilled with being at math night.  Ironically, his daddy has the same attitude toward math as Levi is demonstrating in this photo!

The kids helped make patterns on this felt board.  Clearly, Levi is still puzzled.

And the played a counting duck duck goose game.  There was also Simon Math Says, Red Light Green Light, Bingo and an adding game with frogs.  What a great way to get the kids excited about math!

Grandma Parnell

We got to celebrate Grandma's birthday in late October.  Before her birthday, Levi got to spend the night at her house without his sister's there with him.  He was over the moon to be alone with her!  The report I received was that he was super hyper and did not want to go to sleep.  I knew that since he fell asleep about 5 minutes after I picked him up the next day!

 

Leaving for Grandma's.  He needed a hug from Laurel first.

Such a big boy going on a sleepover.

And, this was the end result.

 

On Grandma's birthday, we snuck into her house while she was out and decorated her house.  The kids had a blast doing so!  We had lunch and cake together and then opened presents.  A fun way to spend her birthday!

Halloween Celebrations

We were lucky enough to be a part of three different Halloween parties.  That is a lot of parties...and a lot of candy!

The first party was at Matt's work.  I took Batman, a rock star, and a cheerleader.  It was so much fun and I could not believe how much candy the kids got!  Plus, the best pizza and cupcakes I have ever had.  A great way to kick off the holiday!

 

 

The following day, the kids changed up their costumes for a doctor, a bandit, and a tiger for trunk or treat at church.  Again, lots of candy and a great soup potluck dinner.  We had a lot of visitors and had a blast!

 

Finally, the bandit, doctor and tiger went out on Halloween night.  Levi only made it to about 8 houses before calling it good and heading home to hand out candy with Daddy.  The girls and I walked around for about 1.5 hours collecting candy.  They had a blast, but were understandably tired by the end of the night!