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School Update, Movies, Leaves!

School is still going really well for Brynn. When asked  how it's going, Brynn will usually respond with an enthusiastic, "great!" She is learning the difference between fiction and non-fiction, punctuation, math, and sight words. Her teacher sends little note cards home for her to cut out and practice her words, so we've been working on those at home. The other night she thought she would also write the words out. That did really seem to help her remember them better. She was really proud and wanted show Daddy. (I love the backwards 'S.' Classic! Ha!) 




Brynn had a fantastic surprise this past Thursday when both sets of grandparents showed up! It was fun to have all of us together for supper. Dana's parents spent the night and Grandma Holly was able to come watch Brynn at gymnastics.


Since it was such a rainy day on Saturday, it was a good day for playing inside. Brynn took some of her piggy bank money along to Wal-mart, as she had her eye on this weird Rapunzel Play-Doh set. She is still really into Play-Doh right now. She said she really does like it and was glad she bought it.




Saturday afternoon we went to the matinee showing of 'Despicable Me 2.' We had seen the first one at home a few times. We also watched 'Hotel Transylvania' at home a couple of times this weekend. It was pretty funny and kind of fitting for the Halloween season. Brynn was skeptical at first, since it wasn't a princess movie, and there was a little scary moment at the beginning to which she shouted..'this movie is evil' LOL. She did end up liking it she told us tonight.


What a beautiful fall day it was outside today. Brynn always wants to rake leaves, so as soon as we got changed from church, she was out raking up her pile. And then had to take the four-wheeler out for a spin, too.




Who's this? Rosha came to play for the afternoon!

Back outside while we were waiting for supper to get done in the oven. Here she was grooming her pile for jumping.


She was proud of her leaf pile.

You might need to click on this one to really see her tongue sticking out. Ha! Look out, leaf pile!

Caught some air on that one.



Comments

theweckerlys said…
Eeee! Cute fall photos. That actually looks like a cool play doh set. I would play that with you, Brynn. :)
Anonymous said…
Fun to see you at gymnastics!

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