F,G,H and I- Day home

F, G, H and I.

Tuesday, F.
We went fishing at the river stone park, had fruit and freezies for snack, and played with frog feet!

 i have no idea how to rotate photos on this blog!

 These shoes are hilarious! I got them from super store on summer clearance, they squeek when you step and the little pink tongues stick out. sadly of the 2 pairs, 1 is already missing the tongues.

As i have mentioned before i do not post pictures of the day home children, so there is no pictures from fishing that i can actually post, but they really enjoyed it!

Wednesday is G,
We had a guessing game.  I made a box with a small opening, the children reach in and try and guess what they have grabbed before they pull it out.  I had it filled with things that start with G, glasses, grapes, girls, g.i.joes, giraffe, gorilla, and i few other i can't remember. Again, can not post pictures from this! and of course we had grapes for snack.

Thursday, H!
H is for Heart!
We made heart shaped cupcakes, to try and avoid everyone eatting a lot of icing we had them with strawberries and powdered sugar on top.  The cupcakes were from scratch and i used less sugar then needed, so they actually weren't too terrible of a snack.
our activity was heart hopping. i taped foam hearts to the floor and the children hopped from heart to heart.

Friday, I.
I is for Ice cream!
We made ice cream!  The children added the ingredients, stirred it up and i had them roll up the teddy grahams to make cookie crumbs for cookies and cream ice cream. it was tasty!

ABC's Day home!

In the day home for the last 2 weeks and the coming 3 weeks we have been exploring the alphabet.  Everyday is a different letter and i have planned an activity or 2 that corresponds with the letter and tried to plan a snack as well.

Here is a look at our first week, A, B, C, D and E.

Monday, A!
A is for Alphabet!
We had alphabet puzzles, alphabet stamps in play dough and of course apples for snack!

Tuesday, B.
B is for Beach!
We went to the beach (park lake) had bananas for snack and played ball.

 

Wednesday, C.

C is for cookies!

We baked cookies, which we ate for snack, and did some (shaving) Cream painting.

Thursday, D.
D is for Dancing!  We danced! sadly i can not post the pictures, but they are awesome!
and we had dirt for lunch! (cookies crumbs on top of our pudding.)

Friday, E.
E is for eggs!

We had eggs in the water table to play with.  E was a tricky one for me, so that was all a came up with!

And of course the books.

next week is F, G, H and I!

 

 

child-free weekend!

nic's parents took our kids to the farm for a weekend and it was amazing! friday night we went out to see hit and run, we thought it was hilarious, although must not have gotten good reviews because there was no more then 20 other people in the theater, on a friday night...

saturday night we went out for dinner to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary, which was monday.

 as for the rest of the weekend, mostly i just cleaned. i did go to the mall and try all kinds of clothes on, because i could! i bought a new dress and relaxed, then cleaned, organized, sorted toys, all that really exciting stuff that never seems to get done when you have kids behind you undoing it all!

 i also dragged our hideous old couch out, that nic has refused to get rid of. he still has not either noticed or commented, and i somehow managed to bring a desk from the basement up to blake's room. i put his dresser in his closet, took the toddler bed out of his room and put in a desk. his room seems so much bigger now! don't mind the unfinished paintings againing on the wall...

another highlight of the weekend was waking up sunday morning and heading to whoop up where i ran down the westside hill, across the bridge, up the south side hill, then back down that hill, across the bridge, and up the westside hill. it was a big run, i have never run both hills in one run, i've walked and biked but never run, so i felt pretty proud of myself for that run. anyway, so thankful to my inlaws for the wonderful break! glad to have them home again, but so nice to have some time alone with my husband and sometime alone with just me!

a mash-up of activities- DAY HOME

here are some random activities we did that didn't really fall under a theme.

this is a science experiment about sinking and floating. it was pretty cool and the boys were very excited to tell nic all about it.

 another water science experiment, you had to carefully place a paper clip on top of the water, if you got it right it would float, if not it would sink. this kept the boys entertained for quite some time~

 we did an olympic theme, on day we had a big olympic event in the back yard with hockey, basketball, golf, bean bag toss, bowling and some extra friends. but like i have mentioned before i do not post pictures of my day home children on my blog and they were in all the pictures! but here is blake and kayla showing of the medals they made!

 making worms and dirt!

 marble painting, this was really fun!

 hail, of course we had to bring some in the house to play with!

 of course painting, we love to paint!

 letter pancakes!

blake's master piece.

 not sure why blake is shirtless, or these pictures are not in order...we made fruit pizza. side bar- old marshmellows DO NOT work for making rice krispie squares, they don't melt so just throw them away!!
anyway, the boys were very busy cutting up fruit, however because the marshmellow crust took way longer then anticipated blake was the only one still interested when it came to assembling the pizza. it was sooo tastey, i know i ate more then my share!

our science experiments. the book is called water experiments, there is some good ones in there!

pink toes!

just a little bit of my kids!

 Blake likes to make faces for the camera and then wants to see the pictures

 another blake face

 little miss grubby

 how cute are they?!

 Blake and his shades! he is not a big eater, but oh he can throw back little cesears like nothing else!

 another face...

 this girl loves her fruit!

 so i have recently started painting kayla's toe nails, which she loves! and one day blake wanted to take part!

 pink toes!

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 showing off her toes

 kayla has discovered her dress up clothes! she especially loves her pink tutu, but why where one when you can wear two!?

of course the babies. there is another one buckled into the other booster seat. she always wants a baby buckled into the van too.

camping!

so we have started an annual camping trip with 3 other couples from university days, this year was out second camping trip and it was awesome! They are the kind of friends that even when you haven't seen each other for a whole year we can just pick up where we left off.

 on the road, blake and kayla are diving into the lunch boxes i packed for them.

 blake i1n front of our cool new to us tent trailer!

Kayla showing off her super cute purse that auntie Erin made her!

 Blake playing football!

 Oh my! who is that!

 Blake loves playing ball with daddy!

 Kayla LOVEs  babies, she is always carrying at least one around.

 blake all tuckered out!

this isn't from camping...but, how funny is he!