Spring Musical

Last week Jonas and Bethany performed in Trinity's spring musical.  They did a great job, and looked really cute with all their matching t-shirts and jeans.  

Also...a little plug here...Trinity is a great Christian school, and currently enrolling!  Check it out (thinktrinitychristian.com) and share it with anyone who you think might be interested :-)

Now, enjoy some super adorable pictures of the kids!

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Photography by Jonas

Jonas is a super talented photographer (or "pictionary", as Bekah would say).  Check it out :-)

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Just Keep Swimming...

Jonas finished another session of swim class this morning.  Mr. Matt said with a little more practice he'll be ready for Level 2...in the mean time, another round of Level 1 it is. 

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Good job, Jonas!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We celebrated St. Patrick at school today.  Guess what??  Lucky the Leprechaun came to our classroom!  He obviously had a lot of fun...

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But he lost his shoe, and a bunch of shamrocks!  Luckily my super students found the shoe and gathered all the shamrocks, and we left it for Lucky to come back and get.

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We spent the rest of the day graphing Lucky charms, writing about what we would do if we had a pot of gold, measuring each other with shamrocks, playing shamrock bingo, playing a "find the leprechaun" game, enjoying yummy green cookies that Josh brought in, and having shamrock shakes...

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Lucky came back during gym to get his shoe, and left the kids a pot of gold!  (Chocolate gold, that is!)

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This is the leprechaun game.  The kids had to sound out silly words to look behind it and see if they found the leprechaun!

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I love how much fun we have in my class!  Great day!

Fun in the Sun

I can't believe how nice it's been outside!  Is it really only March 19th???  Of course, we have been taking full advantage of the beautiful weather, and we spent a TON of time outside this weekend.  Here's some cute pictures...enjoy!

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Visiting at Great Grandma Fran's...

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Can't wait to get back outside.  I'm so ready for spring now!

Sometimes I love When He's Sleeping

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Quote of the Day

Jonas to me:  "I love you when I hug you, I love you when I kiss you, and I love you when I'm being disrespectful."

Lutheran Schools Week

Trinity does a really fun potluck/bubblefest family event as part of Lutheran Schools Week.  The kids had so much fun playing in the bubbles and seeing all the cool stuff they can do!

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Tuesday was movie day...here's Jonas hanging out with his buddies.

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There is still more fun to come...although I'm not sure I'll share pictures of the staff vs. 7/8th grade volleyball game :-).  Pictures of the talent show are coming though...cuteness guaranteed!

Happy Birthday, Abby!

Abby is 2!  It is so hard to believe she is so old already.  She gets cuter every day!

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The older kids had a hard time letting Abby open her own presents...surprising, I know.

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The Rest of February

Matt posted on the Lafferty blog today, and since I can't let him beat me at blogging, I figured I better get moving!  

We went swimming at the hotel a couple weeks ago, and as usual, Jonas never wanted to get out of the water. He was happy to not have "rules" like swim class for a while!

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We went to the aquarium while we were in Niagara Falls, too.  We watched an awesome sea lion show, and the penguin and seal feeding were fun too!

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Playground time with Papa!

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The Eastern Hills Mall had their "beach".  The kids had a great time, and Jonas built a pretty cool sand pail tower with some new friends.

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February Fun

Ok, we are half way through February, so I guess it's time to share a bit of what we have been up to!

We celebrated Groundhog Day at school by making some ground hog waffles.  Super fun, and yummy too!

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This past Friday was our 100th Day of School party...even though it was really only the 99th day :-)  We had a fun day full of different centers and snacks.  Unfortunately, Jonas was feeling pretty lousy and was totally sick by the end of the day.  I love his church made out of popsicle sticks though!

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This was Jonas by the end of the day.  Poor little guy!  He pretty much slept the rest of the night.

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On Tuesday, we had our Valentines Day party.  The kids loved all the games and crafts, but I think their favorite part was the cupcakes!

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It's been busy so far!  Next week is winter break - so I'm sure we'll have lots more going on!

Quotes of the Week

Jonas: When I'm 6 I might start having milk in my cereal.  
me: Bethany and Bekah have milk in their cereal.
Jonas: It's just because some people are different, mom.  Like I'm a boy and you're a girl.  You like stuffing and I don't.  People are just different, right?

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“Mom, when you turned on the light you broke my dream!”

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Jonas was playing with his mini skateboards and his Papa asked him what they were called.  He said, "Netflix". He truly thinks his skateboards are called Netflix. Weird.