My Joy

So here is the story! Amber is in Joy school this year and she loves it. It is teaching her how to find joy in herself and the world around her. It has wonderful music, fun lessons, new things to learn and explore, and new friends to get to know. It has been going wonderful these past 3 weeks! This week it has been at my house with my sister in law teaching. SO fun to see it up close and not be the one teaching! I got to sit back and observe the learning. I saw the lights go on in their eyes. The joy they felt learning a new song or understanding what their senses are and help them do! SO MUCH FUN! Alysha - you did an awesome job - I love you! So here are some pics from this last week. I tried not to take too many because I didn't want to distract the kids... I really had to fight the urge to bust out the camera every 5seconds!
These are from Tuesday; the kids were just sitting around the table for an activity.





Here is Thursday (today). We had an extra kid today. I was babysitting my neighbor's kid while she went to an interview. THX Alysha for taking on an extra kiddo!








As you can see they got to make pudding and use it to finger paint! It was a huge hit. So after school was over I made lunch for my two. Amber wanted more pudding and I told her if she eats all her soup she can have some before her nap. That was all I had to say! If you know Amber, she doesn't eat that well, so that was huge for her. I guess she wanted the pudding. Here are some pics before lunch/pudding...


They were both clean and so was my kitchen
Then I gave them pudding....





Amber is such a sweet big sister! She loves feeding Brigham and asked to share her pudding with him. After these first pics I asked Amber to now feed Brigham the right way or she won’t be able to anymore. Ok. I walked away... After about 5 mins of me doing laundry I thought they are being to quiet. This is what I found!





I laughed and laughed! I should have taken a picture of the highchair, table, and floor! She did the total job. After my great laugh I stripped them down to take a bath and found another surprise that made me laugh even harder.

She even painted his back! It was too good. These two are the joy in my life! Moments like this I will remember forever and they won’t remember them at all. These moments and memories are what life is about! A sweet brother and sister doing what they do best, sharing and making a mess! Life doesn't give any more joy than that! Times like this make all my other worries/problems seem so unimportant. With everything that causes me stress I can still find joy each day! I still laugh. I still smile. How could I not? I know you smiled when you saw their cute, messy faces! I have two healthy, happy, beautiful, JOYFUL kids! I am so blessed!
This is My Joy!