Happy Father's Day and some other stuff.

So I missed my usual Father's Day post on our Blog. 

 But here are some great men. I have been blessed with great men to be my fathers and to be my husband. I am so thankful for each one of them for some many different reasons. I count my blessings each day when it comes to them. 

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Now for some of the others....

Cullan drew the Tardis on this Etch A Sketch..

I mean seriously.. this is pretty good for being on an Etch A Sketch. 

I know I am his mom, but this kid has got some artistic talent. 

No big surprise. I mean look who his dad is!

 Also, the bugs in NC mean business. Usually when I post pictures like this, it is Briea. Nope this time it was Ayla. Garran and I were both paranoid at first thinking that she had lyme disease. But in the end we both agreed that it was probably just a reaction to a mosquito or spider bite. 

I just hate seeing my poor kids and their crazy reactions to stuff. 

from school....

thought i would post some work from the kids. 

 This is a drawing from Cullan's sketch book. He is always doodling. 

 Kael got to bring home three different stars with good reports on them. 

This is a self portrait Cullan did of himself that I got to see at parent teacher conferences. 

problem solved!

so as it is getting close to the end of the year, i have been trying to decide what to do with our bucket of artwork that the kids have brought home throughout the year. then i had an idea. i took pictures of it all. i uploaded the pictures to walmart, where they have a poster collage option. I shuffled them until i liked how they were all organized and then ordered it. they were priced really well and i also found the frames for 4.00 a piece. the kids were thrilled. they loved them. Now they have art work hanging up in the house just like Daddy. i will probably save one or two of my favorites, but the rest will sadly have to go. However we will have these nice pictures to remember them by!

Homework!

Ok, so this is Cullan's first homework assignment!

He had to make an "All About Me" poster.

He really enjoyed this.

So here is the finished project first.

 This is his drawing of his family members. There is Garran, who is holding Ayla. then myself, Kael and Briea.

 This is Cullan's self portrait.

 He then had to cut things out of a magazine of some of his favorite things. I thought his selections were pretty accurate.

 Then he had his dislikes. That would be the following.

Coffee, shots, cats (he only dislikes cats, because I am allergic), bugs and lizards!

 The last drawing was what he wanted to do when he grew up and then draw a picture. 

Cullan thought for a little while and then decided that he wanted to be a missionary. I thought he would say a power ranger, fire man or astronaut. I was wrong. I am ok with that!

 On to the questions.

The first set asked if he had 3 wishes what would they be. Cullans were as follows, just in case you can't read them.

1. Go fishing.

2. That he could do everything his mom says.

3. That he could find the toys his sister hides from him!

 The last little bit were questions about him. I actually had to convince Cullan that he did not have black hair. He was pretty sure he did. We came to an agreement that we would put brown down.

I did not get a good picture of Cullan holding this. I will try again on the first day of school. He is so excited and it is coming so quickly!!

kaels picture

kael-sunbeams 7/2010

my budding artist

this is a picture cullan drew today. he brought it to garran this morning. cullan said that he had drew a picture of garran so that he would know he loved him.

practice...practice

i can not remember exactly where i read this, but i read somewhere that having kids trace letters or numbers with these dot painters really helped with their handwriting skills. i decided we would give it a whirl. cullan can spell his name but some of the letters are backwards and the u is kind of funky. kael still pretty much just scribbles. so here was our fun for the day.they did a bunch and really had fun. cullan keeps asking that we do the dot art again. i have to limit it a little because they go through so much paper. ;0)i was impressed with how well kael did with his name and that cullan did not try and turn any letters around. here is some of their work. it was a fun little activity for the day.

cullan

Blue

today at mom school we learned about the color blue. so here is Kael's picture of a blue sky and blue raindrops falling on umbrellas. he is such a talented kid ;0)

T

some of Kael's work from mom school.
the letter T.
2010

preschool conferences

today was cullan's spring parent teacher conferences at pre-school. his teacher had nothing but wonderful things to say about him. she said he had really changed since the beginning of the year. he has really come out of his shell and is much more social and engaged in his class. he had improved on counting, identifying numbers, colors, letters. It was very exciting to see his growth. I could tell from practicing at home that he had gotten a lot better as well. Anyways, the teacher was explaining to me that all year long they listen to this cd. It is set to music and it talks about this character. As it plays, it goes, it describes the character, like Max has one head and two eyes. As the music plays the kids have to draw what they hear.

Cullan's drawing from the beginning of the year.

Cullan's drawing at the end of the year. Much more detail.

They also interviewed Cullan. I thought I would post it, only because this is a family journal and it will be fun to look back and remember it.

INTERVIEW

1. What is your name: CMG (he got it right, but for privacy reasons i will just post this)

2. What is your address: Blue (this might not make sense to anyone else, but we live in a blue house now)

3. What town do you live in?

4. What is your phone number? 4 (this is my fault. I never thought to work with him on that)

5. Who is your family? Kael, Briea, Mom and Dad

6. How old are you? 4

7. When is your birthday? Spider man (he had a spider man birthday, that is all I can come up with)

8. What is your favorite movie? Hero's

9. What is your favorite video? TV in car

10. What is your favorite color? Blue

11. What is your favorite food? Chicken, Waffles, Pancakes

12. What do you like to do? Run Circles

13. What do you like to do at school? work, have fun

his teacher than shared some very sweet stories with me. she said that cullan was one of the most compassionate kids in the room. every mom loves to hear stuff like this about their child. she said that he is very attentive to someone having a bad day and that the other day in particular just melted her heart. she said that Cullan was standing next to a little girl in his class that has to wear leg braces. the teacher said that she is a little wobbly and falls often. i guess cullan was standing near her, and she fell. the teacher said that cullan had nothing to do with it, but he thought that he did. She said that he bent down by here and kept saying, "I'm so sorry friend" Then he helped her up and gave her a hug.

I am so happy that cullan is kind to others. I have seen evidence of that with how patient he is with briea. she will pull his hear or lay on him and he just says "oh miss". So that is cullan's big report. I am so pleased that he is doing so well. I know he will miss his friends and school when we leave in a few weeks.

just art.

cullan practicing his name. he is getting better with each attempt.
this is his super hero monster!

artwork.

cullan-age 4- painting of a purple P
cullan- age- 4-"I can be a missionary" Primary 2010
Kael-age-3-fish, Primary 2010

Watercolor!

In an effort to de-clutter, especially before an impending move, I have decided to start scanning the boys work and save some of it on here. of course I will save some special things in a box I have for them, but since I am using our blog as almost a family journal, i thought this would work just fine.

so to start off my efforts, here is some of kael's watercolors from MOM SCHOOL today.
We learned about the letter W. Wiggle Worms get to be painted with Watercolors!
Here is Kael's Worm. 2/2010Here is an extra one that Kael wanted to do.And one more. He really likes to paint.
I think they are wonderful. But I am basis.