Field Trip Friday--P

Last week was "P" week at our house. Of course all my Pretty little Princesses were happy about that! Especially the ones whose favorite colors are Pink and Purple :-)

Pink Letter P Pancakes

Early in the week, my friend, Andrea, brought her Pet Parrot over to Play. The Parrot, named Ruby, was a little Panicked at the sight of so many Playful Preschoolers. But she became more Peaceful when the Petite People fed her some Pine nuts.

Andrea and Ruby with Kaiya, Kassidy, Kyndall, Rustin, Kaydence, and Ryder

Isn't she just Pulchritudinous?

Kyndall and Kaydence were Pleased by the Picturesque Parrot

The Posse of Preschoolers Pose for a Picture with the Parrot

For Field Trip Friday, we Packed the Preschool Passengers along with our Pals, GG and Tammy Z, into the Plenty-big van and headed to the Pumpkin Patch. Our favorite Pumpkin Patch is the one at Sweet Berry Farms in Marble Falls, which is about 45 minutes away. It has become a Perennial Practice to take Pictures at the Pumpkin Patch every year.

Pick-up Truck at the Pumpkin Patch

Plentiful Pumpkins

Peculiar Pine-colored Pumpkins

Petite Pumpkins

The Pentuplets Flash their Pearly Whites: Kyndall, Rustin, Kassidy, Ryder and Kaydence

Petting the goats was a Popular activity

Rustin gives the Passive farm Pet a Peck

Also Pleasing to the Preschoolers was the Tractor Train, Pulling a Procession of barrel cars. (Notice that they each Picked their Preferred Pigmentation of barrel to ride in)

The Passengers Pose for a Picture with the driver of the Plowing Machine Pretending to be a train. (The angle of the Picture makes it look like he is holding something, but it is actually a Pig made of hay bales in the background)

The farm also had Plentiful flowers for Picking.

Parade of Preschoolers down the Path

Plucking Petal-laden blooms

Plumage of Pink, Puce, Purple and Peachish

Pigtails and Pink boots go Perfectly with Pink flowers and Kaydence's Pretty Profile

Persistent Kassidy

Precocious Kaydence

Playful Rustin

Prankish, Pet-loving Kyndall

Particular Ryder

All in all it was a Perfect day at the Pumpkin Patch!!

Field Trip Friday--P

Field Trip Friday--B

Last week we learned letter "B". Now, I know I shouldn't choose favorites, but let's face it---some letters of the alphabet are Better than others. There were so many "B" activities that we didn't have time to do them all. We spent the week Bouncing Balls into Buckets, Blowing Bubbles, riding Bikes, going on Bear hunts, Blowing up Balloons, playing with Barbies and Blocks, making Bats, and eating Breakfast food, Bananas, Bagels and Bread with Butter.

For our Field Trip Day, we went to the Big Bounce and then came home to Bake Bread in the shape of Bears.

B pancakes for Breakfast. Rustin is even taking a Bite of his Blue plate.

The Big Bounce (Kassidy Bemoaned the Bright sunlight)

Ready to Bounce: Ryder, Rustin, Kassidy, Kaydence and Kyndall

Lunch Break: Rustin and Ryder with Best Buddy Soren, who joined us for the outing

Kaydence (eating a Banana!), Kyndall and Kassidy

1-2-3 Jump!

Budding Bakers: Kyndall, Ryder, Kassidy, Rustin and Kaydence (the Boys have Blue aprons and the girls have Butterfly aprons---all Birthday gifts from Grandma Wilkinson)

Baking Bedlam (I actually got smart this time and pre-measured all the ingredients into Bowls Beforehand, so they could just scoop and dump)

Building Bears out of Bread dough

A Bedraggled Rustin

Blotchy-faced Kyndall

Da Bears!

Beautiful Kassidy

Bashful and Bright Kaydence

Bedazzling Rustin

Brilliant Kyndall

Big Goof Ryder (who thinks he has to make a silly face every time I take a picture!)

Field Trip Friday--B

The Quints 4th Birthday!

Kyndall, Kassidy, Rustin, Ryder and Kaydence

I am more than two months late, but I am finally posting pictures from the quints birthday! Their birthday fell on Sunday this year, so we went to church in the morning and had a few families over for cake in the evening. They are old enough to really "get" birthdays now, so they were SO excited!

The Fab 5 with their gifts---Five is a very "normal" family size, so the quints birthday is like some families Christmas! (Something I should have thought about before saving all the present wrapping until the last minute :-) )

The present wrapping started out with order and taking turns....

...but quickly evolved into mass chaos!

The quints take a break----All that present un-wrapping can be exhausting!

I made each of the quints their own little mini-cake in their color. In addition to color coding, each of the quints has a symbol that they chose to identify their things when multiple colors are not available. Kassidy--flower, Kaydence--sunshine, Kyndall--heart, Rustin--basketball, Ryder--changes his mind a lot (for his cake it was a monster)

Kassidy, Kaydence, Rustin, Kyndall and Ryder

Happy Birthday to Kassidy!!

Happy Birthday to Kaydence!

Happy Birthday to Rustin!!

Happy Birthday to Kyndall!!

Happy Birthday to Ryder!!

For the rest of the party guests, I made two cakes---a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling (to die for!) and...

Lemon cake with raspberry cream cheese filling

The day following the quints actual birthday, we had their "friend" party. After spending lots of time on Riley and Kaiya's birthday parties this year, I decided to make life easy on myself and have the quints party at the Big Bounce.

We invited all the kids from church who are in their Sunday School classes----there are 21 kids their age, so it was a big group! I was really interested to see what my kids would do at the party. They don't get invited on playdates with other kids very often and they are so used to playing with each other, that I wondered if they would stick together or branch out. To my surprise, none of them stayed together---they all buddied up with someone else.

Kassidy with her friends Paige and Marcy

Kaydence with her friend Emmie

Rustin with his buddy Weston

Kyndall was more of a free spirit, running around by herself---she did join a bunch of other girls watching a movie for a little bit.

Ryder with his pal Andrew

We sang Happy Birthday and had cupcakes. I made rainbow cupcakes (pink, purple, yellow for the girls and blue, green, white for the boys) but I was so busy I forgot to take pictures of the inside!

Party Room

Present Time!

Present un-wrapping quickly turned into a free-for-all!

The Party Kids!

The quints with the cute gal that hosted our party at the Big Bounce! It was so much fun, and the best part----I didn't have to get my house ready for a party, or clean up after the 4-year-old invasion!

The Quints 4th Birthday!

Clean it! (New Video!)

This was our family activity this weekend----making a music video in between sessions of Conference. The kids go around singing "Go, clean it! Clean it good!" now, so I hope the message sinks in :-)

Clean it! (New Video!)