Friday, May 14, 2010

Fly Swatter Painting

For my class, curriculum for young children, we were assigned to create an art project for preschoolers and bring a sample of it for class next week. I decided that I would do a "Fly Swatter" painting and who better to help than Alexa?! She loved it! She thought it was pretty funny to dip a fly swatter in paint then WACK the paper with it! It got pretty messy but I think she enjoyed it! :o) And this is all for a grade?!? Can't be much better than that!! :oD

Sorry I didn't take any pictures...NEXT TIME!!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Back at BYU-Idaho

School started almost 3 weeks ago and we have been going ever since! We had to unpack the two days before school started and havent touched the remainder of it since...(whoops). I am taking classes mostly for my major, child development, and one for my minor/cluster, home and family. They are, Curriculum for young children, which I LOVE, Adolescent Development, and Infant/Toddler Development, which I also like! They are a lot of work, but I love learning about those sort of things! Pat is taking a bit more than me, but he is doing very well, and actually doing his homework!! ;o) He's taking calculus, a computer science class, english, racquetball, and world religions.

We have been taking Alexa to her friend, Brylie's house when Pat and my classes overlap. I then watch Brylie, while her mom does her online classes, the other days. It's been nice to have friends here already so we can swap babysitting. But it seems like many of our other friends are graduating and will be leaving soon :'o( But I guess that's what happens when you take a whole year off like we did. BUT... I should be graduating soon! Even if I go part-time, I should graduate December 2011, so the end is near! On the other hand, Pat just changed his major from business, to Computer Science and now has a ton more credits...but I'm hoping it will REALLY pay off in the end! We hope to get out of here before Alexa starts Kindergarden, if that says anything.... *sigh*