Ty's Turn!

Last week Ty got his turn to go to school! We are doing a mommy preschool with some other kids in the ward. It was at our house first, so I got to be his first teacher. He could not wait!

Even though it was at home, he wanted to wear his back pack like the big kids.

We started with A of course! First we learned "All About Me" and each child did show and tell from home (Ty's was Spiderman), and we made a book about them: name, hair and eye color, hand, foot, height, etc.

Then we talked about A for Alphabet and read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I happened to have a bag of apples from a tree by my parents' house, so we used it to make a big A like in our book.

The kids liked eating their own apples for snack. 

The next time we continued the apple theme with the book "Ten Apples Up on Top" and tried to balance apples on our heads!

Then we went on an Alphabet Walk like Toby the mouse. Each child had a basket and we filled it with things that started with each letter of the alphabet, including some things we had to search outside for, like dandelions, grass, insects, leaves, Queen Anne's Lace, and strawberries. They had so much fun. (Ty's finger in the picture cracks me up!)

Today was his first day at his friend Sophie's house. It was bittersweet to drop him off and leave him, but he was all smiles. When I picked him up he was full of news about B is for Barnyard Animals... he had "chicken feed" for snack (looked like oatmeal, rice krispies, sunflower seeds, and m&ms), played Duck Duck Goose, and read "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly." 

This little boy melts my heart. He is my little buddy and says the cutest things. Here are a few favorites I've written down...

"I want a lot of some."
"Is it wakey wakey time?"
"Tummus" (instead of hummus... drives the girls crazy but I think it's cute!)
"You're pretty Mommy."

He is preoccupied with the idea of Jesus in heaven right now. His favorite song is 'Gethsemane" on our Primary CD and he asks for it over and over.

"This is my favorite song. I want to listen to it all day."
"I don't want Jesus to die."
"When is Jesus going to come down? I want him to."
"Jesus has tears... Jesus has love."
"How did Jesus get to heaven? I want to go to heaven. It's in the sky... in the clouds... but I might fall..."
"How does Jesus make it rain? I think he pour, pour, pours it on us."

He says the best prayers and always wants it to be his turn to pray. He carries around his favorite toys, which are usually cars, trains, tractors, phones, and stuffed animals. He loves help me bake, play dress up, wrestle Jakey (not always nicely), and play with playdough. He gives good hugs and is trying hard to be kind to his siblings.

Every night when I tuck him in, I tell him "You're my favorite Ty in the whole world!"