September Fun

The day after we returned from our beach vacation, Katherine started Pre-K at our church. She's our fourth child to attend Community Preschool Pre-K. She's been so excited about starting school. It was our last fourth day of Pre-K and was bittersweet. We're all so excited for the memories she'll make, the things she'll learn, the friendships she'll make, and the adventures she'll have. 

Our co op hosted Spirit Month during the month of September, and the first week was Crazy Hair Day. Elisabeth was eager to participated in all the fun. 

I got to be Mom Helper in her favorite class- Fun and Cooking. This week they painted apple trees. The following week they got to make apple pies in a cup. Yum! She consistently tells me that Fun and Cooking is her favorite class. 

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Matt's work hosted a night at a Tulsa Driller's Game. The kids were thrilled to get to meet Hornsby during the game, and to get to play on the playground and eat free hamburgers and hot dogs. They didn't last through the entire game, but we had fun while they were there. 

We were missing Nathan that evening, but he certainly wasn't missing us. He was celebrating Wyatt's birthday with Hibachi, Roblox, a sleepover, and donuts. Wyatt is one of Nathan's very best friends, and he's always happy to celebrate anything with him. 

We picked him up the next night and spent the evening watching OSU's football game and hanging out with one of our favorite families. The night went wild from there. I had casually mentioned that we had planned to get rid of our upstairs couch and replace it with some beanbags for the kids. Brooke found a listing for bean bags for sale in her neighborhood, so instead of having a leisurely night watching a football game, the men stuffed two giant beanbags in our van, and Brooke and I drove them to Broken Arrow and then back to Bixby to pick up the rest of my family. 

It was a wild Saturday night, ha!

One of the best parts about Pre K for Katherine is that her best friend Laura is in her class and most days they carpool together to school. The girls made an intricate plan to dress alike for school one day down to their shoes and hair styles. They're adorabel. 

Thursdays are our co op days, and they are the best. The kids are learning so much. I'm so thankful for the effort and passion their teachers put forth each class period. Samuel and Elisabeth made salt dough maps of Africa. 

In their science class, the also did an experiment to show how whale blubber keeps the animals warm in the frigid waters. 

Samuel, Elisabeth, and Katherine are all participating in Trail Life and American Heritage Girls this year, and their troops hosted a fishing derby. Matt and I are not fishermen, so Papa Joe kindly agreed to take them to the fishing night. They all loved it and had a great time. 

As the weather cooled off throughout September, we enjoyed a night of bike riding in our neighborhood. 

We also attending a field trip at the zoo with our co-op friends. 

The kids enjoyed fishing so much, that Papa Joe took them fishing at his neighborhood pond one Friday night. They caught dozens of fish. 

This beautiful girl asked me to curl her hair for church, and we had to document it with a picture.