I'm Afraid Rudy is in Trouble...

I am amazed every day as to how patient Sophie and Rudy are with Emma Claire.

She pulled out Rudy's brush the other day and started brushing him. This went on for a good couple of minutes. Rudy, at best, hates for his hair to be brushed, but allowed Emma Claire to do it.

She followed him around after this, waving the brush..."Re-re, Re-re" until she finally cornered him for another session.

First Snow

We had our first snow entirely too early this year. The second weekend in October! Brad was in Canada fishing for the weekend and got more than a foot of snow there one night!
Emma Claire and I mostly took advantage of the cold by staying in the cozy indoors. We did do some exploring in the yard, though.

First Snow

The Rock Stars Daily News - Week of October 12

Monday, October 12
Emma Claire had lots of fun playing outside in the snow! We had a snowball fight and Emma Claire did a good job of getting little snowballs in her mittens. We got snow all over our coats!

Tuesday, October 13
Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing with the fall trees! She put lots of the felt acorns on and have the trees a good shake! She was perhaps, practicing her "squirrel" techniques!

Thursday, October 15
Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing with the wooden balance board and bunny house this morning! She wore the wooden rings as bracelets as she took the bunnies "visiting" around the room. She let the bunnies out to play at the cars and blocks!

Classroom Note for 10/15:
The Rock Stars had a great day!We spent most of our time this morning playing with each and every one of our toys. When it was time to go to the muscle room, not one toy was on the shelf! We sure did our job of playing!For art today, we painted acorns, with acorns! We rolled, dotted and slid them across the paper to make some really neat designs. To go with those acorns, we decorated some oak leaves with Red, Orange and Yellow tissue paper. We are getting good at those fall colors!We didn't get outside this morning, but we were able to look outside and see the rain change to snow and then back to rain! We went to the muscle room and gymnasium instead, were we did lots of running and chasing after bean bags. They slid very far across the slippery floor!We are planning a nice fall walk when we wake up from our naps, we are excited to see some fall colors outside! We may even see some squirrels!

Apple Orchard

Emma Claire and I took "field trips" to the apple orchard each of the past two Fridays. The first, Minnetonka Orchards (photo to the right) and the second Apple Jacks in Delano.

Brad joined us during his lunch break at Apple Jacks (photo to the left). We did a quick picnic lunch and saw the goats and chickens, but left to get Brad back to work with Emma Claire in the back screaming "ride, ride" (or more like "wide, wide"), referring to the tractor pulling the trailer around the orchard. So, of course, we dropped Brad off and turned right around and went back for a "wide". Glad we did. Turned into a fun fun afternoon. We did the ride, saw the goat and chickens again, and even attempted a pony ride (Emma Claire was enthusiastic until she actually sat on him..."aaa-do, aa-do!", which was a frantic all-done). The trip ended with a wagon ride to the car, sitting on top of our pumpkin.

Jonah and Addie

Jonah, Addie and Emma Claire have been friends from the beginning. Jonah visited Emma Claire in the hospital the day she arrived. They became friends with Addie in ECFE a few weeks later. Imagine all of the fun these three are going to have in the years to come...

The diaper photos were taken after A LOT of caramel (with some apples on the side)...sticky (hence the diapers) and sugary (which explains the craziness that went on on Suzanne's stairs).



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Rock Stars Daily News

Thursday, October 1

Emma Claire had a lot of fun going over to the library this morning! She got to help pick out books to bring back to school before storytime. Librarian Mary took us on a "bear hunt" and Emma Claire was doing ALL the actions!!

Monday, October 5

Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing outside with Maleah, Ava N and Sarah. The girls sat at the little picnic table and made hand prints in the sand that Maleah covered the table with. Everyone had to look at everybody else's hand prints! Pretty neat!

Tuesday, October 6

Emma Claire had fun playing with the tree, sticking fall leaves to it and even trying to climb it. She was also enjoying playing in the kitchen with friends, eating "milk and cookies".

Thursday, October 8

Emma Claire had lots of fun playing with the felt trees! She was a busy girl putting the leaves on and then shaking them off. There must have been some bug "gusts of wins" because it was "raining" leaves all over for quite awhile.

Rock Stars Daily News: 9/21/09 to 9/29/09

Combining the news for the past couple of weeks...

=Monady, 9/12/09:

(Opa and Grandpa Rick would be proud of this one...)

Emma Claire had lots of fun playing with the doctor kits this morning. We called her Dr. Kadue because she had three stethoscopes around her neck, a doctor bag, and a lab coat! It was hard to get her to put it away at cleanup time!

Tuesday, 9/22/09:

Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing trucks with Brennan! They were both interested in the same truck for awhile, so they had to take turns and share. They did a great job and seemed to enjoy watching the other person zoom the truck around!

Thursday, 9/24/09:

Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing with the washer/dryer this morning! She gave the baby dolls several washes, two at a time before wrapping them up and putting them to bed! Then she washed some of their clothes...so much to clean!

Monday, 9/28/09:

Emma Claire had a lot of fun playing in the sensory table! She got a paintbrush and "painted" all the wooden blocks. Then, she took them to the workbench to hammer...quite the handygirl today!

Tuesday, 9/29/09:

Emma Claire had lots of fun going to the post office this morning! We said "hello" to the postal workers and then bought stamps for out letters! Emma Claire got to put her own letter into the mail slot! We had to watch it slide down the chute.

(We received Emma Claire's letter in the mail the next day...Daddy "tarnished" Emma Claire's artwork with a stamp right in the middle!)