Forrest The IRONMAN

I'm not sure why I never blogged about my sister's husband Forrest and the IRONMAN race, but for some reason, I never got around to it. My sister just posted a blog about it and I wanted to link it to my blog since she did such a good job on it. We had so much fun that day and we are are so proud of him. I can't even imagine participating in a 15 hour race that included a swim, a bike ride and a run that totaled up to 140.6 miles! What an amazing accomplishment, we are all so proud.

Here is the post.

Letter D

This week we worked on the letter D. I decided not to work on it for 2 weeks because by the end of the week she already knew the letter. I'm not sure if she is now understands what we are doing, or if D was just easier for her to grasp than M. But we are moving on!

We started off putting dots on her letter D. I could take the time to print off a D, trace it and then cut it out on construction paper, but instead I just draw them free hand. The are not the greatest, but they work.

The next day we made dirt. She LOVED this and had so much fun with it. We used 2 jello pudding snacks,

took a few bites.

Next we smashed and added in some oreos,

took a few more bites.

Then we added in some worms. This was her favorite part. When I gave them to her she had the biggest smile on her face and started dancing around all over the living room.

Wonder how Grayson got chocolate on him?

She mixed and mixed. And sampled and sampled.

And danced and danced.

Then she took off into the kitchen. I followed her to see what she was doing and she headed straight for the refrigerator,

and into the fridge it went. Without a lid.

The next day we sorted capitol and lower case dinosaurs.

And put together a dinosaur puzzle.

We also made a lower case daisy.

(again, my free hand lower case d)

We made a capitol D dinosaur.

"look, a triangle"

She practiced writing the capitol and lower case D.

Counted the dinosaurs.

And then I cut them in half for her to match up.

We made a Dog. (the activity say to put it on a brown paper bag, but I didn't have one.)

She practiced putting diapers on her babies.

And we finished up by doing a scavenger hunt!

I had planned on making doughnuts with daddy, but since my birthday was on Sunday we went to the beach instead. Since she already knows D so we are moving on. When I ask her about the letter "D" and some d words, she says "D for Daddy!" and "D for Dustin!" and "D for Dylan!" We talked about tons of D words (dots, dollars, doughnuts, dirt, dinosaur, daisy, dog) and the ones she always remembers is Daddy, Dustin and Dylan!

Now we start the letter A.