So behind!

Ack - I am so behind on posts for our family journal. If i ever want to make this into a book for the girls I need to get it together! Hopefully over the next couple of weeks now that school is out I will be able to get these updated. At least I have the end of December and all of January done. Good thing we didn't do much in January! :)

Birdie Festival

Each year in January the American Heritage School has a dance festival for the kids in grades kindergarten through sixth. They also have a few of the junior high and high school kids participate doing ballroom dance numbers. And to end it all the faculty do a big dance number - this year it began with the principal driving a motorcycle into the middle of the gym. Awesome! The kids loved it. :)

All of the kindergarten kids got to do the chicken dance. They made these super cute hats and the kids had little streamers on their arms.


We were lucky to have Nancy sitting with the kindergartners so we got this great video.

The techie geek scavenger hunt

The girls recently saw one of those new codes that you can decode using your iphone. Dave being the crafty dad that he is found a program where you can make your own codes. He quickly set about making a scavenger hunt for the girls. It was super cute watching them work together to figure out what the codes were and where to go next. The hunt ended with a treasure trove of cookies. The best kind of treasure for two little girls.

Say cheese scanned code.

Treasure trove of cookies - yo ho it's a cookie pirate's life for me!

January crafts

So for January we had a few celebrations. National Peanut day. National Penguin Day. Rainbow fish day. You know - very important holidays that are very important to celebrate. First off was National Peanut Day. Emma and Matthew came over and we made playdough out of peanut butter. Annika thought it was better for eating than playing.

Num Num Num - Yes - it is ok to eat playdough.

Next was National Penguin Day - yes there really is a holiday to celebrate penguins. And so I attempted to make Oreo penguins. As you can tell Mieka wasn't super impressed. :)


I didn't think they turned out that bad ... well maybe I shouldn't have used red frosting - it looks like their eyes and noses are bleeding. Yuck.

And finally Rainbow fish day. Mieka had a friend over for a play date and we make rainbow fish cookies and read the book as part of the day.

I thought it was funny that the other little girl put a teeny tiny amount of sprinkles on her cookie and my girls globbed as much as they possibly could on theirs. Guess the Sucher Sugar curse has been passed to them as well. :)

January Science

Ok - so since it's been so long since we've done the experiments and I can't remember half of what we did, I'll just post some pictures for posterity sake.

One of the experiments we did tied into our family home evening lesson. We talked about lies and how when you tell a little lie it's easy to break the thread, but that when you keep telling more and more lies, the thread winds more and more around you to where you can't break free - except for help through repentance.

Annika and her test of strength.

Mieka and test of cleaning pennies in vinegar

Color theory - she looks so serious! :)

And finally heat and balloons. As you can tell they thought this one was pretty neat.

Science is amazing and cool!