Big Girl

No more diapers for Hannah, She is officially potty trained!! Yeah, she poo poos and tee tees in the potty all the time. I still put a pull up on her at nap but she just with in the past few days has even been waking dry from nap. So, we will be taking her to pick out some of her own panties very soon, she and sister have been sharing the same stash. Very excited but it is a little weird only having one diaper wearer in the house :) 2 down ? many more to go.

F week

We just finished our "F" week. We had a Fun fun with school this week! Learned capital and lower case F, read Fall book and Frog books. I thought that Fish would be our theme but I found way more Frog books on my bookcase, so Mama made some changes. Our favorite book was, A Frog in the Bog, by Karma Wilson. * you can take a peek inside at http://www.amazon.com/

Besides being a really cute story it is also a counting book. So I used it for out Math activity yesterday and today. Here are some pictures of our activity really fun and the girls loved feeding their frog today after lunch. I am sure the frogs will be hungry for days :)

First step is to create frog puppet with opening in the mouth.

Puppets complete.




Then, I went online and clip art and found pics of all the bugs that Frog eats, roughly cute them out, and glued them to index cards so they would be more sturdy. I let them dry over night and then cut them out again. The bug making step was a little time consuming but worth it for the excitement my kids had.

Abigail counting her bugs.

Abigail counting and sorting her bugs. I found it very interesting that she sorted them. She did this all on her own with no direction from me. Her little brain at work, so neat to watch! :)

Hannah counting her bugs. She wanted to keep all of them in her hand until she laid them down. She laid them all down in one straight line. Another little precious little brain at work :)

Taking a break from counting to watch Sister feed her Frog. I was glad to see that Hannah did not change her method when she saw the way that Abigail was doing hers. Yeah for independent thinkers! :)

Hannah feeding her frog.

Abigail feeding her frog one of the 5 snails.

I am so glad that I get to watch them learn!! :)

Thankful Thursday "F"

With out sick time and all that has been going on around here I have gotten behind on my Thankful Thursday activity :( I am going to do better. We were even challenged at small group last to make a list of of the things that we are thankful for. So here it goes again

This weeks letter is "F"

I am thankful for...

1. Family. I love my Family so much and truly value Family and the love we share.

2. Friends that are like family.

3. Fellowship that I have with my Brothers and Sisters through Jesus Christ.

4. Food, yeah I like, I should be honest and say love, to eat :)

Happy Thursday!

Fall festival

Saturday after nap we loaded the kids in the car, with a crock pot full of chili and hot corn bread, and headed to Conroe for a free fall festival. It was held at a Christian establishment called the 7 acre woods. The kids had a fun time playing games for candy, playing on their big playground, walking through the petting zoo and checking out the pumpkin patch. Samuel got to swing while with girls got the faces painted for the first time :) Abigail chose a rainbow and Hannah chose a ice cream cone. We tried to get a picture of the 3 of them together when we first got there and seriously it was comical. Really feel free to laugh as you look at them. At the time it was a little frustrating, but it is a pretty good representation of our lives :) Samuel would not stay still long enough and the girls kept staring at other people. I mean you would have thought they had never seen another human being. Here are our tries of the group shot and then some in the pumpkin patch right before we left. Samuel LOVED the John Deere tractor and so did I because it reminded me of one that my brother had when we were kids.

Review Week

This past week we completed our first review week of school. We reviewed the letters and sounds that we have learned so far this year, A-E (short vowels to start with).

Abigail is learning so quickly!! She already know all of her letters and sounds, thanks to a Leap Frog movie she received from one of her best little friends, Mia, on her birthday. I hope some of it is my hard work but I will not take the credit, the movie is excellent! She really is enjoying our other subjects. Academically I will be focusing on math with her. She is thriving and loves to do school. I hope it stays that way.

Hannah is a little behind Abigail with her letters and sounds, which is fine she is not even 3 yet. She is learning new things and it is fun to watch our "little pumpkin" get excited when she knows the correct answer :) I think that math may be one of her strengths. She is doing very well with counting and number recognition. I taped a number line to the top of our school table when I realized we needed lots of work with numbers and Hannah seemed to catch on quickly. She, just like her Big sister, LOVES books! One of my school goals is to make it an environment that will continue to foster their love for books.

Below are some pics of the girls working on their review project. I wrote the letters across the top of the page and then below each letter they found the matching sticky letter and then also practice writing the letter on the bottom section of the page. On the back of the page they colored pictures of some of the key words we learned for each letter. ex. Apple, ball, cookie...ect.

Welcoming Fall

The Duck is now wearing his fall necktie. This duck was my Granny's, I always remember it sitting by her door as a child. So, naturally it was one of those treasured possessions, of hers, that I was very glad to inherit. He now sits by our front door and I tie his neck with ribbon for the season or holiday that we are celebrating. It is officially Fall at the Krum House.

First fall Harvest

We had a beautiful evening here and now that everyone is starting to feel better we spent some time outside. Trey did some yard work and grilled us some fabulous backstrap for dinner, the kids played and I worked in the garden. Hannah was my Big helper.

We had out first harvest of the season. The lettuce looked absolutely beautiful so Hannah helped me pick some. Salad from our own garden, pretty exciting!

I was even able to use my garden table that Trey had built for me at work. Yeah! Thanks to Better Home and Garden for this great project idea. And Thanks Shnookums for making it happen! We had an old sink that wasn't being used. The plumbing is hooked straight up to a hose. The idea is that you use this as your wash station after you pick so that you don't have to get your kitchen all dirty.

My fabulous garden table

Here are some pictures of the growing garden

carrots and cauiflour

acorn squash that I am afraid will start taking over the garden soon

sweet little garden helpers

Sick leave

I know I haven't posted in a while. As I mentioned in my last post we got sick again. Actually right after I made that post Hannah started throwing up and we have been battling the stomach virus ever since.

Poor Hannah was REALLY sick!! At one point, after being sick for several days, she was bent over the potty and in complete exhaustion said, "Mama, please I don't want to get sick anymore!" Oh, broke me heart! And one night she was so exhausted that she threw up all over her self in her sleep and didn't even wake up :( Thank the LORD I heard her get sick and Trey and I went to her aide. She was one sad baby when we woke her up!

After five days of not eating, or when she did throwing it up, and almost constant diarrhea; we started seeing improvement. She got her appetite back on Wednesday and made it a whole 24 hrs with out throwing up. We have been seeing definite improvement in the bottom area since then also. She really seems to be feeling better I am sure it will just take a while for her tummy to get back to normal. I only had symptoms for less than 24hrs and it took a week for my tummy to feel normal again.

There were times when I wasn't sure I was gonna make it through. There was one pretty desperate late night phone call to my mom in there, thanks for listening Mama! But by God's grace and the strength that only He can provide we made it through the storm. It definitely wasn't pretty and it did NOT have a sweet aroma but we made it through.

On a happier note while Sister Hannah was sick and Brother was under house arrest as a precaution, Abigail got to have some great one on one time with both Trey and I. She went to Church with Trey on Sunday and they got to have a fun lunch date after service. Tuesday she helped me clean at the church and we ran some errands. Fun quality time with our Sweet Pea who is growing up so fast.

* thought this picture was too cute not to include. This is a candid shot of Abigail, that Trey took, as she tried to shove a Giant chocolate donut into her mouth on Sunday morning. It makes me smile and make my mouth water every time I look at it. Like mother like daughter I guess :)

Again

We are sick again! Please pray for us. Really hoping it is just a short stomach bug. Samuel was sick on Wednesday night. I was sick last night and this afternoon and Trey threw up this afternoon. There is no fever and the girls have a birthday party tomorrow afternoon that they are really looking forward I guess we will have to wait and see.

We survived

There has been a lot of sickness in the parts and in our family. Last Sunday night I had some tummy issues. Trey took Monday morning off so that we could take the kids to get their flu shots and Abigail had one random throw up before we left but then was fine for the rest of the day. Tuesday morning Trey started getting sick and was sick all day at work. He stayed home Wednesday and Thursday and was really sick all day and night. On Thursday afternoon he started running a fever and really bad cough. So, I quarantined him to the bedroom and I slept on the couch. Friday he went to the DR. and diagnosis was intestinal track infection and Bronchitis. Thankfully he was fever free for over 24 hours on Sunday morning and the rest of us managed to stay well despite missing Daddy. So last night was magical, I slept in my own comfy bed again, clean disinfected bed at that. This morning I made Treys lunch, made cinnamon sugar toast for breakfast, started the laundry, disinfected TV and XBOX controllers, put dinner in the crock pot AND all before 9 o'clock. Amazing what a goods night sleep will do!