Well we hit the first big one, 5 years!!!!! Here we are 5 years later! 5 years happier, 5 years older, 5 years smarter. We have spent the last 5 years living in Utah, AZ, and Mississippi, moving 6 times, having 2 kids, 2 college graduations, 5-6 pets, and 1 great friendship. I seriously know how lucky I am to have Riley. He is so amazing. I love every little thing about him. He makes me happy and I always feel loved, secure, and beautiful because of him. He is by best friend and I am so glad these 5 years were only the beginning of our eternity.
We had a fun anniversary, Riley planned our date, we grabbed some Lenny's Subs (we HEART that place) and drove to Memphis for some Lazar tag! We have been wanting to go for a while. We love reliving the teenage days. What a better way than to kick some teenage butt! Just kidding. I did okay, but I was on the winning team. Riley was put on the other team. A few funny things: Poor Riley wore his bright yellow soccer jersey... and well it was like a beacon in the black light. He was the brightest glowing thing in there! Good thing he has skills, he did great! And Riley made up my code name it was ARMD--age related macular degeneration (oh optometry school.) But they pronounced it armed, it made me look like I couldn't spell!
ART: Water color painting. We read a book about a pond. Frogs and many other animals live in ponds. So we studied the pond and painted a picture to look like the pond. I used water and food coloring. I propped up the book where she could see, gave her paper, paints, and a brush and she came up with a beautiful water color work of art. After it dried she put frog stickers in her pond.
MATH: We played a dice game. It helped her in so many ways. I had two bowls, one with frogs, and one with lizards. Then I made 2 dice. One had 3 pics of frogs and 3 of lizards. The other had numbers 1-3. She played by herself at first. She would roll both dice and draw the corresponding creature (3, frogs.) We went until one bowl emptied. Then she discovered all by herself, to line them up and count, pointing to each one. This helped so she didn’t recount some. Then we played taking turns over and over again.
I love these pics!--they made me laugh (click to enlarge and zoom in)
SCIENCE: Ice painting. I made 3 ice paints mixing paint, and water then freezing with a popsicle stick. First we looked at a regular ice cube, talked about its properties, and compared them to the paints. Then we want to know how to melt them. We finally decided to go outside and paint. We left the cube of ice on the hot cement. Rhylan kept noticing it was melting. She loved painting with the paints and watching them get smaller and wetter as the lesson went on.
LANGUAGE: We didn’t do the planned lesson for the day because Rhylan had a better idea. At breakfast she started making letters out of her dry cheerios. So I kept that idea going. We practiced for a while making letters. Then I had her draw A a on a paper with glue, and then line with the cheerios. I also let her do a little freestyle gluing.
Gross Motor: First day of gymnastics. She loved it!! It is a class for 3-4 year olds. She did stretching, lots of balance beam, vault, and trampoline.
Here in the South, sudden downpours are common. Rhylan loves to run out into the rain, and jump in the puddles. Last week we went jumping together. Here she is a little wet! 
