FHE #16

Emergency Telephone Numbers FHE Manual pg 323

Opening song: Children’s Songbook pg 276 “Do As I’m Doing”

Opening prayer: Jeremy

Lesson: Tonight we made a list of phone numbers that we felt might be useful in the case of an emergency. We included obvious numbers like 911, and Poison Control, as well as close family members, and the doctors and home teachers and the bishop. We will print out and post the list either on the fridge or near the phone.

Closing song: Children’s Songbook pg 95 “I Love to See the Temple”

Closing prayer: Daddy

FHE Treat: See’s Jelly eggs

Dinah is as stubborn as the rest

The kids have a hard time getting motivated to clean up their toys.  We usually let Dinah get away with not cleaning, since she’s so young, but she’s been starting to show more of an interest in cleaning.  She is very good at understanding, although she speaks very little still.  Tonight, when the other kids were sent to their rooms for failure to listen, Dinah was still in the living room.  I told her, “Dinah, pick up the toys!”

She looked at me and then looked away, and said, “uh uh!”

“Dinah, go to your room,” I said in mock firmness.

“Ahhhhhh!” she cried in protest, and ran from the room.

Boys and Bugs

Yesterday morning we woke up and came out to the living room, and I opened the blinds for the back door and there were baby grasshoppers EVERYWHERE (on the INSIDE). Of course I was wondering were in the world they came from and HOW did they get in the house???

Ethan’s kindergarten class has been talking about bugs lately, so I thought that I might as well catch some and send them to school with him. He was so excited to show them off to all his friends and his teacher, but she sent them home with him because she didn’t know how to feed them. So when Kyle took the kids to PetSmart last night he picked up a couple critter keepers (I have no idea what they are actually called), to keep the baby grasshoppers in. And since he got two Ethan claimed one for his grasshoppers that he took to school, and Jeremy claimed the other one and asked me to catch some more grasshoppers for his critter keeper. So here are my boys with their bugs:

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You can’t really see the bugs in the keepers since they are baby grasshoppers and are quite small (if you look on the top of Jeremy’s keeper there are a couple of black specks, those are some of the bugs). But the kids are thoroughly enjoying watching them and giving them fresh grass and leaves. Ethan keeps trying to catch more and gets so excited when he actually does catch one. I keep trying to catch more, when I see them on the back window or on the floor by the back window. After all I don’t need them loose in the house. 😉

New Dress / The Comic Stylings of Ethan and Tyra

Some of the ward’s ladies came over today to make jam, and one of them (Sister Wozab) was working on making dresses.  She explained she was creating dresses for some local girls who were putting on a play about Dr Suess, and she described some of the dresses she’s made.  Currently, she was working on a “Cindy-Lou Who” dress, red with some colourful frills.  She offered to let Tyra try the dress on, and Tyra was really thrilled to put it on.  After she showed it off, Sister Wozab told Tyra that she could have it!  Tyra wore it for the rest of the evening.

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I took the kids to PetSmart to purchase some new fish and other supplies, and in the car, Tyra and Ethan were having a discussion about the dress.  Tyra had a hard time remembering the whole name of the dress, at first.

Tyra: It’s my ‘Cindy-Loua’ dress.
Ethan (correcting her): Who.
Tyra: Me.
Ethan: No, it’s ‘Who.’
Tyra: It’s mine. It’s my ‘Cindy-Loua’ dress.
Ethan: No, Tyra, it’s ‘Cindy-Lou Who.’
Tyra: That’s what I said!

I couldn’t help but feel that Tyra’s dress was perfect for playing First Base.

FHE #15

Telephone Training

Opening song: Hymn 226 “Improve the Shining Moments”

Opening prayer: Tyra

Scripture: Doctrine & Covenants 45:61 “…that ye may be prepared for the things to come.”

Lesson: Tonight we talked with the kids about how to use a phone, and proper phone ettiquite.

Activity: Each child took turns practicing dialing and calling Kyle’s cell phone from the house phone. Then we had them practice using Kyles phone to call my phone and they got to practice answering the phone. And for a special treat Tyra got to practice dialing Granny’s number and Granny answered so Tyra got to talk to her for a bit. Granny answered with “Hello?” and Tyra said “What Granny?” (I just laughed and reminded her that she was supposed to say “Hi, this is Tyra”). Then Jeremy got to practice by dialing Grandpa’s number (which is a different area code :O ) and Grandpa answered so Jeremy got to practice talking on the phone too. He kept nodding his head to Grandpa’s questions and we had to keep reminding him that Grandpa can’t see him and he has to answer by talking into the phone.

Closing song: Hymn 303 “Keep the Commandments”

Closing prayer: Jeremy

FHE Treat: Easter candy