Lockport Caves

We went on a field trip to the Lockport Caves in the beginning of October. I was surprised at how interesting and well done it was. Jonas didn't understand too much of it, but he loved going in the cave and on the underground boat ride! He got to hang out with his special friends, too :)

Jonas went on his first bus ride ever!

From October 2010

Sitting on the bus next to Landri

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Goofing around with Ben while we wait for the tour to start.

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Group shot right at the entrance to the cave, which happens to be an old giant rusty pipe!

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On the boat in the cave

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Jonas, Ben, and the tour guide

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Special Friends Chalk Day

At Trinity, the younger kids are paired up with an older "special friend" to bring them to chapel and do some activities throughout the year. A few weeks ago we had our first special friend activity - chalk day! Jonas is excited to have special friends, and he can even remember their names easy, because they are both named Ben!

From September 2010

Jonas: While you cook, I'll read the newspaper.

Field Trip to Becker Farms

A few weeks back Jonas' class went on a field trip to Becker Farms. They learned all about how to properly pick apples, went on a little wagon ride to the orchard, and picked away! I loved how small the trees were. Perfect for the children, and the apples were delicious!

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Happy Birthday to Mommy

We celebrated my birthday last night, and my sisters and brothers made me an awesome "Princess and the Frog" cake. They are so funny.

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My face is actually taped on that princess!

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Monkey Heads

Bethany brought in an awesome snack for her first snack day - Monkey Heads! How cute - except now Lisa has quite the standard to live up to!

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Dance Party

Grace and Jonas having a dance party in my classroom before school starts :)

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1st Day of School

Jonas has just finished his first week of school. He is going 5 mornings a week now, and I am loving teaching him and Bethany. They are both doing great, and are making lots of new friends!

Top of the stairs picture on the 1st day

From September 2010

Painting away

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How tall are you compared to Albert Einstein?

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Ambidextrous??

From September 2010

Slightly off topic, but funny - is Bekah ambidextrous too?

From September 2010

Bekah also can't wait until she can come to school! Every day she comes in my room and doesn't want to leave. Cute :)
I can't wait to watch Jonas and Beth grow and learn throughout the year. How lucky am I to get to teach the 2 cutest kids ever?

Game Night at Aunt Sarah's

All the Lafferty ladies came over last weekend for a game night and sleepover. Everyone had lots of fun, and Jonas and the girls can't wait for the next one!

Playing Jonas' Blue's Clue's game

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Abby being cute

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Sisterly Love

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Jonas' Photography

Recently Jonas has been grabbing my camera whenever he has a chance and taking pictures of everything. Usually it ends up being pictures of the floor or his fingers, but here a couple really cute shots he got.

From September 2010

From September 2010

Water Fountains

Uncle Matt and I took the kids to Cazenovia Park to enjoy the water fountains and have a little picnic yesterday. The fountains were tons of fun and the kids were quite entertaining. The picnic was not so successful...the bees were everywhere!

From August 2010

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Super cute picture of Abby

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Corn Hole

Uncle Matt has been giving Jonas some Corn Hole lessons!

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Fantasy Island 2010

We took our annual trip to Fantasy Island on Sunday. As usual, Jonas loved all the rides!

This is us soaking wet from the Log Flume. It really was not hot enough that day to be that wet!

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Feeding the geese Cheerios! Even some fish swam up and ate some.

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The classic Merry-Go-Round picture

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Jonas swearing in to become a deputy sheriff of Western Town. He even stayed awake for the whole show this year!

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Choo Choo!!

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Jonas doesn't do too well with spinny rides, and he started to look sick half way through this one. It's a good thing his cousins are nice and slowed down on spinning the teacup!

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Jonas went on a few "bigger" rides too, but since the adults had to ride along on those, we didn't get too many pictures. Jonas is definitely going to be a little daredevil!

Swimming with Joey

We try to make it over to Uncle Larry's pool to swim every time we get the chance. It's even better when Joey is there! Jonas and Joey had a great time together last week, and were even making plans for their next get-together by the time the morning was over.

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Museum Trip

The Buffalo Museum of Science has a dinosaur exhibit going on! Jonas, Great Grandma, and I headed to check it out. Great Grandma read to Jonas all about each kind of dinosaur, and his favorite ones were the Triceratops and the robotic dinosaur.

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We saw some other ones, too.

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Jonas was actually super excited about seeing the whole museum, and looked at every exhibit. Here's some highlights:

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We also made crayon rubbings of different dinosaurs, worked on puzzles, weighed ourselves on every planet, and saw tons of different animals!