all about me! -day home

 first off, how cool is this FREE playground we got for the kids! pays to go on those swap and buy sites at the right time!

 So for a week we did an 'all about me' theme.  Here is Blake decorating his body outline.  I still have yet to send these home, maybe a picture would be prefered by my day home families!

 We did some measuring. I had the children weigh themselves and i took their heights. we made little books with all this info in them.  Then i let them measure things in the playroom with the tape measures that i got from ikea!

 those ikea tape measures were a hit! they can record all their heights on them, and the boys were very excited to take them home!

 how cute is she?!

 we did hand prints, which as you can imagine got VERY messy!

and foot prints, talked about favorite things, and had some great about me books.

Spring Cleaning! Day home

For a day home theme one week we had spring cleaning!  The children did some window washing (that generally results in the windows needs to be washed!)

I really fell down on the photos for this theme.  They also washed dishes in the water table (above), and hung and 'folded' laundry, did some fabric colleges, and had brooms, dusters, dust-pans in the playroom.

Blake!

 so i was one of those crazy people who got up ridiculously early on boxing day and got myself to old navy to get a free camera! it's a small video camera that takes pictures too. after spending several months using it as a picture camera i finally printed some pictures and realized it sucks. the videos are ok but the pictures, not so much. ANYWAY! for mother's day Blake's preschool had a mother's day tea. all the children performed a few songs then served us tea and cookies. and BLAKE SANG!!! for the christmas concert Blake was the ONLY kid who did not want to participate and sat on the stage while all the other kids performed the most adorable songs. it was rather embarrassing. he was partly mad about the sweater we made him wear, but also just was not into school yet. so glad to report he has finally warmed up to the idea of school! he tells us about what hes done at school and attempts to teach us songs he learns there. anyway, on mother's day i was BEAMING proud of him!!

 Here he is with the cookies he decorated.

 Blake and mommy! he made the crown :)

and some random Blake pictures, this is from one of Blake's FAVORITE places, the dino park at the zoo!

 Blake the ham.

Anyway, just a little bit about the boy i love! He is wonderful! although he could use a hair cut...we love him!

kayla

 Have you ever seen kids riding bikes through a store and thought 'who lets their kids do that, how annoying!' well, i'm that parent!  kayla found this little trike and biked around the store while loading up the back with all kinds of goodies she was planning on buying. but she is just so darn cute!

 don't worry, it wasn't just kayla, blake had a bike too, there he is with uncle allan.

 on our way to good friday service. i wish i had as nice of clothes as kayla!

 Kayla's FAVORITE food, raspberries!  and she does not share them!

Kayla's new bike!she hasn't figured it out yet, but i'm sure she will be ripping around on this thing soon!

 Kayla, her cousin, Blake and I were in the paper, i showed kayla and she grabbed the paper then ran to her seat to sit and read it.

mother's day- DAY HOME

For mother's day the boys made flower college pictures and a fancy lemon cake.

 our college, i showed the boys how to make stand up flowers by using a pencil and wrapping the tissue around the bottom then dipping it in glue, they each tried it a couple times then made the colleges how they liked.

 we used a recipe from the nigela lawson cookbook. the boys grated the lemon peels. my husband was horrified that i let them do this, but i explained to them that the grater is sharp so they needed to keep their fingers away from it and carefully watch what they were doing. i have 3 fairly cautious boys, so with close supervision all fingers survived un-grated!

 the boys mixed the ingredients.

 this cookbook uses weight measurements which was great, each of the boys took turns added scoops until we reached the number we needed, i have 1 boy in kindergarten so he can recognize numbers and this was a good way to introduce the other 2.

 they sqeezed the lemons for our icing.

 using the citrus squeezer.

 unfortunately one of my day home boys left early so he missed the last part, but we frooze one for him to take to his mom on monday. the boys drizzled the icing, they each got to decorate 3, one for them, their mom and their younger sibling who was napping.

 they even cut strawberries!

dont those look tastey! the boys then served us. they were very proud of their creations!

birthday! Day home

one of my day home boys had a birthday the other day so we made cup cakes! the boys decided they should be red and green.

 they mixed the ingredients and scooped the batter into pans!

 and of course we made birthday cards too!

 Blake!

 Instead of icing the cupcakes i gave them each a knife and blob of icing and sprinkles.  Usually i give the children each a zip-lock icing bag and let them decorate a few, but this way they ate less icing!

cinderella!

again, an old event!  3 of my girlfriends and i decided to take our girls (2-2year olds, 3-4year olds) to see the catholic high schools preformance of cinderella.  We also decided to dress up our girls like princesses! i wasn't so sure how this would go over with my very active little girl, kayla likes to ask for shows all the time, i put them on and she watches at most 5 minutes before she gets up to move.
anyway! we took the girls for a fancy lunch date at wendy's first, then off to the play.

kayla sat in the row in front of me with her friend bella beside her. she was so proud of herself sitting there all byt herself! she sat through the entire first half, and most of the second half.  i was so impressed! anyway, mommy and kayla dress up dates are definately going to be something we do again!

this was a different day. kayla went down stairs in her pj's, took one look at the day home boys and came running back up saying 'pretty, pretty!' and insisting on wearing this princess dress, ALL DAY!!