Elias at Nature Preschool

His teacher posted a video of this river project and Elias was helping his friend create more water flow by showing him how to remove more sand from the middle. It was fun to listen to him explain his idea. 

Elias often tells us the mud area is too small at school (compared to ours in the backyard), but the sand area is really good for volcanoes!

Elias’ Thoughts

E: Do we have the money to pay for another house? 

Me: No. 

E: Do houses cost a lot of money? 

Me: Yes.

E: Like how much, as much as a tree? 

Me: Yes.

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E: Is there school on the weekends?

Me: no

E: is it like that in the whole world?

Me: I don’t know how other countries do it. 

E: you will have to go to all the countries to see. 

Me: I love going to other countries! But I couldn’t go to all of them. 

E: why not? We need to know. 

Me: some countries aren’t safe. 

E: why aren’t they safe?

Me: sometimes leaders or other people make places dangerous. 

E: is our country safe?

Me: it’s much more safe than other places, but lately it hasn’t felt as safe to me. 

E: I think we should send a bunch of notes to Trump that say BOO! to scare him. 

Me: he isn’t President anymore. What he really needs is love. 

E: I don’t think Trump really knows what he wants. 

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Me: Do you know that I am a preschool teacher?

E: you are right now?

Me: yes, but I don’t have a classroom right now. 

E: when I grow up I want to be a lawn service guy and a teacher and my own dad. 

Me: your own dad? But you already have a dad. 

E: I mean a dad for my kids. 

Me: I see. Who will you marry?

E: you. 

Me: oh shoot I’m already married but I’m sure you will find a really great girl to marry someday. 

E: I’ll be five when I get married. 

Me: that’s right now! Five year olds don’t get married! You have to be an adult. 

E: {giggles} well then why are there all these dogs walking around getting married?!

Me: what dogs?

E: in 101 Dalmatians. Why can they get married?

Me: good question. 

Grocery Store

We haven’t made a grocery store in a very long time, so Augustine decided it was time. We’ve all been glad that he set it up!

We had the idea to add gift cards. 





Augustine added a lot of other cool features as well. Sliding front doors, a conveyor belt by the check out, some toys to buy. 

Just Us

Levi and I are slowly getting used to it being just us at home. It takes me back to the days of just me and Augustine. It also takes me back to the days of pre-covid in some ways. We keep busy but I also still feel like I just got done running a (wicked extra long) marathon. 

We take walks when it’s not boiling lava hot. He’s always happy to see his bestie. Look at that smile. 

He finally has enough balance to walk the stepping stones all by himself, even at different heights! 

He can almost run across them if they are all the same height. 

The day we brought the doll house back upstairs he played all day long. If he wasn’t napping or eating, he was right there. 

Levi has spent time daily working on his “wee ooo wee ooos”. He really liked the parking lot we chalked. 

He took his very first car cart ride at HyVee!!! It’s always a toddler favorite in our family. 

Working Hard at School

Elias brought home 3-4 “coasters” almost every day the first two weeks of school. Each coaster is the face of someone he knows. I helped him write each person’s name on the coasters and then we mailed them out. Elias is very proud of his hard work!

It’s uncanny, isn’t it?








A coworker of Aunt Beth is especially fond of the boys’ artwork, so we offered her a coaster as well. We asked her to send a picture of herself, for accuracy of course, and her address. Above is the note Elias dictated for her. 

She laminated her coaster so she could add to it!

Lewis

Lewis had a bit of a rough start to school, but everyone at the new school helped and encouraged him, so now he’s doing great!

Logan found a big wolf spider on the morning newspaper and managed to squish it just enough to kill it. But he didn’t squish it too much so Lewis studied it closely. 

Elias at Nature Preschool