Wrap up round up

These past weeks we had some exciting things happen.  A few weeks ago, Danielle took Lily Gray to cornhuskin with some of Lily's friends.  They all made matching sweatshirts that said class of 2024 on them! Of course they were the hit!! :)  Stephen was able to work with a new communication device at speech therapy and we were able to order a walker that Stephen can walk in!!   Lily Gray created an adorable turkey for school which she named Gobble Bieber and disguised as a Justin Bieber look-a-like. (pictures to come as soon as it comes back home). The best part of Gobble Bieber is that we programed it to sing in LG's voice Justin's famous song "Baby" when she pushes the button on it's back.  While Yogi was home this week, we tried to get a handle on all the leaves that were taking over our house;  Lily Gray and her friend, Rainey, had a great time jumping and playing in the leaves.  This past weekend we all headed down to the Raleigh Christmas parade too, which the kids had a blast at!!  Sunday we wrapped up the week by heading down to the farmers market and picking up everything we needed to make a Thanksgiving feast!  Even though its only a 2 day week this week, we are going to be jammed packed, I can already tell!!  

Sophie and her younger sister and Lily Gray before the parade at Cornhuskin.

Supporting their class!!

Stephen working with the Dyna-Vox system. 

Lily Gray and Rainey playing the the gigantic pile of leaves!

Watching the Christmas parade! :)

Taking home the blue ribbon!

This past week was an exciting week in our household because Stephen took part in the Special Olympics!  This year he was competing in the soccer competition which consisted of three mini skills test: in the first test he had to dribble the ball from one cone to the other (Stephen did this by focusing hard on not knocking the ball off his lap), the second test he had to shoot the ball into the net, and the third test was where he had to try and hit sets of cones with the soccer ball.  Needless to say, we were all super excited for Stephen to be participating this year but were even more excited when he WON FIRST PLACE in all three skills test!!!! :)  For those of you who are keeping count, that is 2 years participating in the Special Olympics and 2 years coming home with a blue ribbon!! 

Stephen and Cheryl running to the other side of the gym without knocking the soccer ball off.

Stephen concentrating hard on hitting the ball into the goal. 

Everyone cheering Stephen on.

There it goes.....GOAL!!

 Picture with his number 1 fans after winning the blue ribbon!

Lily Gray showing her Olympic athlete some love.

Stephen was so proud of himself!

CONGRATULATIONS STEPHEN!! :) 

The calm after the storm

So Halloween is over and this week as been a quiet week for everyone to just relax before all the madness starts again with Thanksgiving.  These past few weeks, Lily Gray has been working on her first book report.  She decided to do the 'Alice in Wonderland' chapter book (mind you, everyone else in the class did not do a chapter book).  Needless to say, our finished book report was 9 pages hand written and in great detail; Ms. Busick has no idea what's in store!  The book report itself is amazing but the part that blew me away were her drawings.  Lily Gray had to illustrate the book and she chose to draw a picture of the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, and the Mad Hatter at a tea party.  We printed off pictures for her to look at on the computer and from there she free-handed the drawings onto her paper. 

Her picture of the Cheshire Cat along with the picture she looked at 

Her drawing of the Cheshire Cat

Lily Gray's picture of the White Rabbit along with the picture she looked at

Lily Gray's picture

Lily's picture and the picture she looked at

Lily's picture!

The finished product!  AMAZING!! We are so proud of her first book report!! :)

Monster Mash Halloween Bash

Oh Halloween weekend we meet once again.  On Saturday, the kids headed to the Museum of Science in Raleigh for their Halloween frightful spectacular.  Lily Gray fell in love with their animal room.  It's basically a room where they have all different kinds of animals that have been preserved that you can touch and look at under a microscope.  Of course, their Halloween costumes were a huge hit! 

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Lily Gray showing Stephen a skunk's fur

Lily Gray holding a opossum

The kids outside of the museum

We found a lady to paint Lily's face to look like the Cheshire Cat, she was AMAZING!!! :)

Check out this funny video her husband made of Lily Gray's painted face: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltX10377mgE

Lily Gray loves being a mini celebrity! :)

We finally got around to carving our pumpkins on Halloween morning.  In true Flournoy style we had to have spectacular pumpkins! 

The kids dressed and ready to carve some pumpkins! :)

One Alice pumpkin down, Cheshire Cat to go.

All three of our finished products

Close up of the Alice pumpkin

Close up of the Cheshire Cat pumpkin

Everyone had a great time at the Halloween party! :)  

Twas the week of Halloween

This week was busy but what else is new!  The kids and I headed down to the farmers market to pick out our pumpkins for Halloween.  They loved walking around and seeing everything, Lily Gray especially loved taste testing all the apples.  
Also this week, I was in charge of the Halloween learning experience in Lily Gray's second grade class.  I decided that we would make a craft, play a few games and then have cupcakes, sounds simple right? HA it was anything but!  It all turned out fabulous and fun was had by all in the end!

Lily Gray with her finished craft! 

The girls after playing the mummy wrap game.

The whole class

Making a silly face! 

The mummy cupcakes Danielle made for the kids classes!

After the Halloween learning experience the kids decided to make some candy apples to give their teachers and therapist for a special Halloween treat.

Step 1: Start with delicious granny smith green apples

Step 2: Melt the caramel and try hard not to eat any! 

Step 3: Dip the delicious apples into the equally delicious caramel sauce

Step 4: Let the caramel dry and decorate! :)

Step 5: ENJOY!! 

Perfection! :)

In all of our spare time this week, we decided to make red heart chocolate lollipop to pass out on Halloween at our 'Alice in Wonderland' themed party! :)