First Day of Preschool

She has been waiting for this day for so long. She could hardly sleep last night b/c she was so excited. She had her outfit all laid out, and got up and got dressed so early this morning. I can't believe my little Sunny is such a big girl.

Sunny says her favorite thing about preschool today was playing toys with Halle.

She also liked eating cookies for snack.

New Carseat

I think she likes it :)

If you hate football don't read this post

I just need to vent a little. I was watching ESPN tonight and they are throwing a fit about the unsportsmanlike penalty on Jake Locker at the end of the BYU game. They are saying it ruined the game and blah blah blah and that Washington got screwed. Well lets look a little closer at the game. Hmmm, I'm pretty sure they still had a chance to tie the game with an extra point that was only a 35 yard chip shot. But wait, it got blocked by about all of BYU's players. Also if you want to talk about screwed by calls. How about the difference in penalties. BYU 145 yards-14 penalties. Washington 25 yards-3 penalties. Are you kidding, everyone saw the stupid refs miss hold after hold after hold after hold after every other call. Oh wait they didn't miss it they just didn't want BYU to win. BYU made some mistakes again, that will sooner or later cost them a game, but clearly dominated. The good news is that I sent ESPN and everyone who is crying about this stupid penalty a box of extra soft and absorbent tissues!! By the way, the rulebook states that a player cannot throw the ball into the air in a form of celebration. If you watch Locker he chucks the ball about 25ft into the air. Not that I really agree with the penalty, but it is in the rules. Someone just give BYU some credit. Thanks for reading, I feel much better. Get ready for UCLA. By the way Josh. UCLA beat Tennessee, so when BYU spanks UCLA does that mean you will give them a little credit finally? Because Tennessee is in the SEC right?

Here's The Proof

She's crawling!! She actually can't get very far before she face plants, but it is definitely forward progress. This first picture is the only one where she looks half decent. She looks strange in all the others, I think b/c she was concentrating. I seriously cannot believe it. She's only 5 1/2 months old. Ryan asked today when the other kids crawled, which was 7 1/2 months for Jax and 8 1/2 (closer to 9) for Sunny. So this is super weird to see our bitty-baby acting like such a big girl.

We have got to start baby proofing the house. There are so many little toys and pieces of things around the basement. She's been all over the floor for awhile, but she hasn't been able to get to a specific toy yet. I'm sure in a few days she'll be headed for all the things she shouldn't be.

Going after Sunny's shoes

Almost there

Trying to get to her big sister.

Weird half smile

"Talking" as she crawls.

4 Year Stats

Sunny finally had her check-up. It went great (i.e. NO SHOTS)

31 lbs -- 19th%
40 inches -- 50th%

Guess What We Did Tonight???

That's right, BOWLING!!

The kids have been begging us to go bowling for awhile now and we decided tonight was the perfect night. They were so happy.

Sunny was excited, they had tiny bowling shoes to fit her itty-bitty feet.

Picking a ball

Lila sat and watched most of the game. Then we took turns holding her and helping out the big kids.

Contrary to popular belief, Jax didn't beat Sunny (just don't tell him that)

The "I hit a lot of pins" dance.

After bowling we went to McDonald's to get an ice cream cone. Lila was excited about that, even though she won't be getting taste of ice cream for several years (not b/c I'm a no sugar freak- which I am- but b/c she is lactose intolerant.)

Ginormous leaning ice cream cone.

The night was a huge success. We all had a good time together.

Activity Days

My new calling in our ward is Activity Days leader. I'm really excited about it. A year ago I was in the Primary presidency and I absolutely loved it. When I was pregnant with Lila I was called to be a visiting teacher supervisor. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it just wasn't very fun. Anyway, I'm so excited to be back working with kids. We have the most awesome ward, and I love all the children so much. Each one of them is so special and fun to be around.

So, on to the point of this post. I would like some ideas about how or what to do with the girls (9 year olds). I've never done this before, and activity days didn't exist when I was a kid.

My first activity is Thursday and is about building a "web" of friends. I'm going to read them Charlotte's Web and talk about how at first Wilbur didn't like Charlotte, but she eventually became his best friend, etc. I'm going to relate it to the beginning of school and how there may be people that we don't think we will like, but we need to get to know everyone b/c we never know how things are going to turn out, and who might end up being our dearest friend. Then I'm going to have each girl write their name on a spider web and we will pass them around in a circle. Each person write something nice about the person whose paper they have (did I explain that well? Clear as mud probably). The point being to show the girls the wonderful "web" of friendship and support they have around them already.

We're going to finish it up by decorating cupcakes to look like spiders (a la Charlotte's Web).

I'm really hoping it turns out good. I think it will.

Please leave me some comments with your ideas and experience for future activities. I know there are lots of yall out there who are way more creative than me, and I would love to hear what you have done, or what you think would work well.