Great Tuesday

This morning Claire asked me for a piece of paper before we left for the library.  She showed me her paper when she was done and she was trying to write her Bb's.  I am glad that she is likes doing her preschool work so much. 

We went to the library in Le Sueur for storytime this morning.  The librarian read books about fall, and told a cute story about pumpkins.  After library Claire and her friend Hannah were running around outside for a bit. 

We came home and had lunch then started with Claire's lessons for the day.  She is doing really well with her Bs. 

Here Claire was practicing writing her Bb's.  We read the poem Baa Baa Black Sheep, and then made black sheep out of our hands.  She had so much fun, and put the cotton balls on all by herself.

Then we made some halloween crafts to add to our wall.  After the story about the pumpkins at the library, I thought it would be cute to make our own little pumpkins.  I cut out a pumpkin on orange paper and the with black paper cut out some eyes, noses, and mouths, and had Claire pick out and put on the pumpkin the way she wanted to.  I was very surprised at how good she did.  Then she said that she wanted to make girl pumpkins so we put bows on for the girls and hats on for the boys.

We also made a spider out of her hands too (thanks for the idea Dianna).  We put the googly eyes on and Claire drew on the nose and mouth.

Here is her halloween craft wall so far.  The ghost is her foot, and the tree is her arm.  The spider is her hands too.

After Claire was done with all her crafts, she decided play princess.  She wants to pick out pretty dresses from her closet and wear them to be a princess.  I tried to tell her that she is a princess no matter what she wears.  It is hard to believe the amount of lipgloss that girl puts on in a day.  She is loving that vanity that I got her.  She got some really pretty little princess dress up shoes for her birthday, and if I would let her wear them out of the house, I know she would.  She is always putting on a different pair and dancing around.

I grilled steak for supper out in the garage last night.  I told Claire that I had to run out and start the grill and would be right back in.  When I came in, maybe 10 minutes later, Claire was very mad at me because she could not get her dress off and had to go to the bathroom.  She said that she pooped in her underwear, and that she was yelling for me, but I didn't hear her.  The poor girl really must have been trying to get that dress off. 

After supper we read all of the books that she checked out from the library. Then her daddy came home from a 12 hour day of shoveling concrete at work, and Claire was not letting him relax at all.  He barely walked in the door and she wanted to show him her pumpkins that she made. 

All in all we had a really good day.  Tomarrow we are planning to go to the apple orchard with the girls and their cousins, Sami and Andy.

**SNOW**

This morning after Claire woke up and had breakfast we bundled up and went outside to play in the snow.  Claire had fun eating the snow and running around in it.  It was still snowing while we were out there playing.  It probably not stay long so we tried to have as much fun as we could.  She did not want to come in, but her little nose was getting really red.  The weather is really beautiful too, not windy at all, and 31 degrees.  So pretty with the snow still falling.  When I look out my front window it reminds me of a Christmas card.  So pretty and quiet, with the beautiful white snow.  Makes me want to start on the winter crafts, and we have not even started with the Thanksgiving ones yet.  We will see what the rest of the day brings, maybe we will have to make a few snow crafts!!

Claire playing with all the snow in her wagon.

You can tell that she was having so much fun!

Here is the front of the house with the snow that we got.  Claire was walking up to the house.

Claire is trying out her snow angel.  She knew just how to do it.  It was really cute.

Claire was trying to find a good spot to put the other arm on our snowman.

Here it is, our first snowman this season.  I think this is the earliest that I have ever made a snowman, that I can remember anyway. 

Cold Weekend

On Friday we went to pick up Breanna.  Claire was very excited to see her big sister.  Breanna had to run the mile at school on Friday, she said that was 4 laps areound the track.  Me and Breanna played a game of clue after supper.  Then it was time for bed.

On Saturday morning we had our first snow this season.  It was just a dusting, but Claire was so happy to see it.  I wanted to get pictures of Claire out in the snow, but just was not feeling well enough t go out there.  I have had a head cold for a few days, no fever just head cold.  Breanna helped me make kneopfle soup for lunch.  It is a vegetable dumpling soup with milk and butter, perfect for a cold day.  Then we got ready to go out to the deer shack.  John worked so hard adding on to it the last few weeks, we had to see it.  Claire had fun dancing around out there and playing on the top bunk with Bre.  John and Breanna stayed over night, and me and Claire came home for a dance party.

Claire and Bre at the deer shack.  They were having fun on the top bunk.  This is the new bunks just built after they added on.

Jamie put the radio on, and Claire was dancing around.

Miss Claire getting pretty for our dance party with her new vanity I bought her from Unique (a thrift store).  I put in new batteries and it works like new.

Claire again with her vanity, she had so much fun playing with it.

Today Breanna got to shoot her new gun for the first time.  She did really good and is even more excited to go hunting with her dad.  She wants to stay out in the deer shack again next weekend.  Aunt Lesa came over for lunch.  The girls were very happy to have her over.  We played a game of Yahtzee free for all, a new yahtzee game that she got for her birthday.  It was really fun.  Then we went over to Toody's in Henderson some very good ice cream.

Aunt Lesa with the girls, aren't they so cute!!

Claire enjoying her ice cream, and....

Breanna enjoying her ice cream.

Claire was just looking so cute, had to snap another one!

We all had a great time and the girls were so good, so they got to pick out a treat before we left.  Then it was back home and time for Breanna to leave us for a few days.  She has MEA this week and will be coming back over again on Wednesday.

Me and Claire made a cherry pie with cherries from grandma and grandpa Friesz's cherry tree.  We picked them back in July.

 

This was back in July when we picked the cherries from the tree. 

Well, that was our weekend.  Now bath time and then get ready for bed.  I am finally feeling better today.  I will be busy cleaning house tomarrow since I have been sick all week. 

Our Thursday

We started off the day relaxing and watching movies.  Claire took a nap after lunch, then we went outside.  We picked all the rest of the tomatoes.  Claire was busy playing outside in her playhouse, riding her bike and driving her car while I was cleaning up in the back yard.  After supper we washed all of the tomatoes and then had to wrap them because they were all still green.  I will have a lot of tomatoes to can in about a week.  John got some peppers from a couple friends, so I might try to make some salsa too. 

I can't believe how fast the week has gone.  Tomarrow is already Friday, and I don't feel like I got much done at all so far this week.  Me and Claire seem to be feeling okay, just think that it is going to be a head cold.  Claire seems to be feeling better than me, so that is good.  She did enjoy getting outside to play for a bit.  I did not want to miss out on all the nice days while we still have them.

Claire is ringing her bell on her bike.

I did put on the hat and gloves though, and she was just fine.

While I was cleaning up the backyard, our little bunny hopped out.  

Miss Claire giving mom a smile while driving around in her car. 

Another beautiful smile from Claire bear.  She got this car for her birthday from one of her friends.  She has always wanted one.  We washed it all up and will be putting it in the basement for the winter.

Relaxing Wednesday

We started off the day just relaxing.  Me and Claire had a runny nose today, I hope it does not become really bad. 

For Claire's preschool we started the letter B, the color blue, squares and the number 2. When I asked her if she wanted to do her school class, she got so excited. I am glad that she enjoys working on her preschool stuff. We have a lot of fun with it too!!  Claire also counted to 14 today, all by herself.  We will be working on the letter B again tomarrow.  Claire is very excited that backpack, from Dora, starts with the letter B.  I found backpack in a magazine and we it out and pasted to her B sheet. 

Before supper we made oatmeal raisin cookies.  Then Claire helped with making supper.  She was running around the kitchen with a cookie cutter on her head, pretending that it was her umbrella.  She wanted me to put one on my head too, because it was raining.  Then when John came home from work, she gave him one too!  She has such a great imagination.

I would have liked to get outside today, but we will get out there tomarrow.  We have had a busy start to the week, so it was nice to just relax in the house today.  I am hoping that we have a beautiful day tomarrow, and no more rain.

My princess

On Monday we went shopping with Grandma Friesz, Aunt Lesa, and Uncle Tim.  Claire needed some 3T clothes for the winter.  We also went out for lunch and for a walk.  We had a great day.

Here is a pretty bird that we saw while we were going for a walk.  I think maybe he flew into a glass door because he was just sitting there.  Claire thought it was so cute.

Here is Claire while we were on our walk. It was hard to get her to hold still for a picture.  We had walked to walgreens and Claire bought a nailpolish and lip gloss.

Here we are back at grandmas house and Claire is busy with her new nailpolish.

I found backpack for Claire at unique in Burnsville.  She asked me to take a picture of her with her backpack.  She filled it with all kinds of things from her room.

This morning we went to the library for story time.  Claire picked out some new movies and books.  She had fun with her friend Hannah this morning.  They gave hugs before leaving the library. 

This afternoon we went to the doctor for Claire to get a flu shot.  She did really good and then got to pick out a treat from the store.

Claire was dancing in the kitchen singing the song from Madagascar 2 "I like to move it, move it"  That is one of her favorite movies right now.  She is always repeating things from the movie.  (this is after the shot too)!!

Wet Weekend

On Saturday morning me and Claire went garage saling, in the rain.  We did not really find anything though.  Then we went to my parents house for lunch.  My sister, Linda, was there with her kids.  The kids had so much fun playing inside, since it was so wet out.  They were running around the house with blankets on and dancing.  John was out working on the deer shack again. 

Sami, Andy, and Claire running and dancing with blankets on.

My little Claire bear, being silly with grandma's blanket.

This morning I put away all of Claire's summer clothes and took out her winter clothes.  It turned out to be more work than I had thought.   John is working on the deer shack again today.  It should be really nice once they are finished.

Claire had strawberry milk and a toaster strudel for breakfast.  This is the first time that she realized milk makes bubbles when you blow in it with a straw.  She thought it was really neat, and kept on doing it.

She got the bubbles to go up pretty high.  Then she told me that I had to try it!  She had a fun breakfast.