Thanksgiving

Brianna is 20 Months

Connor is 42 Months

This week we focused on Thanksgiving activities. I was still getting over swine flu so at the beginning of the week, we didn't get much done. But we still had a fun week :) And yes, we are all feeling much better praise God!

We had a yummy breakfast Thanksgiving morning.

From our Seasonal Activities book Connor colored a Squanto page,

and matched the right pilgrim heads to the pilgrims.

I didn't get pictures of this, but Mike played Farmer and Turkey hide-n-seek with the kids and they loved it!! He pretended to be the farmer and he had to find the turkeys so he could cook them on Thanksgiving. Then they switched. It was super cute.

We had two Thanksgiving’s. With my hubbies family we went to a hotel and had dinner there and swam.

To bring to my parents house on Sunday, the kids colored these placemats from the Target Dollar Spot.

I forgot my camera, so no pictures of the dinner at my parents :(

This has nothing to do with Thanksgiving but it was the only Tot Tray we got out this week. It was just beads and ‘test tubes’ (little plastic thingys that come with single flowers from the store). They had fun filling them and pouring and dumping them.

Ok, so not much went on this week or last, but hopefully since we are all over the flu, we will be back into the swing of things this week.

Hope you all had a tummy-filling Thanksgiving!!

Pancake Turkey

Here was our Thanksgiving breakfast this morning:

Pancakes, chocolate chips, sliced almond and banana slices.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Cooking and Cc

Brianna is 20 months

Connor is 42 months

Since we have all been sick with the flu this past week, this post is pretty late. But here goes…

Connor and Brianna made indian corn.

Connor pained with melted chocolate for his letter Cc paper.

He made a blueberry muffin for stART.

They both colored a fuzzy monster poster from Targets dollar spot.

*note- the markers that come with the poster don't wash out very easily.

Connor worked on 4 different transportation puzzles from one box:

Connor made a leaf wreath with silk leaves and a paper plate.

I was somewhat frustrated because the silk leaves didn't seem to stay glued on but we covered it really well with glue and let it dry and somehow they all stayed on!

We also decorated our Christmas tree before we all ended up with the flu.

There were a couple of things we didn't get to since we were sick, (like actual cooking!) but that's how life rolls :)

If You Give A Moose A Muffin

I am making myself come on here to post this, because me and Brianna have been sick :( Sigh, the things you do for blogging.

For this weeks stART we read If You Give A Moose A Muffin:

And we made paper plate blueberry muffins from Making Learning Fun, a site i love.

I printed out the template for the bottom of the muffin and cut it out. And i cut a small paper plate in half and he colored it brown. I then gave him some blue circles i had punched out and he glued them onto the top of the muffin (the plate).

If you think of it, say a prayer for our health :)

Paper Indian Corn

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is CORN. I have to admit it, i am so bad at keeping things open ended. I know partially its because of my kiddos ages (1 and 3) and if i don't have some sort of outline for them, it wouldn't work out very well. But still, i guess i need to try harder?? Props to you awesome moms who do such a great job of this! So onto our partially open ended Indian corn.

In advance i cut out a corn shape and squares of red, yellow and orange paper.

I laid it out for them and before i could even explain anything to Connor, he was off gluing the squares on.

Brianna of course needed some assistance. I let her pick a square and i put a dot of glue on while the square she picked was in her hand. She then put it wherever she wanted.

I then cut out some ‘leaf’ shapes from a brown paper bag and gave them to the kids to glue on the top. But Brianna had her own idea of where to glue them. Here is her finished Indian Corn.

And here is Connor’s.

I wonder if i should tell him that thanks to mommy’s awful cutting skills it looks more like an upside down rocket ship.

Fun With Little Mouse

I was given another blog award recently. I don't think i will ever get sick of hearing someone say they like my blog so much they want to give me an award. What a compliment! Although i already have this same award, i wanted to post about it anyway so others can hop on over to Trudie’s blog and check her out. I love her creativity. I don't know what's cuter, her sweet little girl or her crafts and ideas. Id have to say her adorable little girl :) She definitely deserved her award. And thanks Trudie, for thinking of me! Oh, and for always leaving me the sweetest comments about my blog. I love it. I cant wait to see what other fun things you do with your little girl.

Go check out her blog, Fun With Little Mouse.

I also want to mention that she has a website with goodies for pregnant moms and new moms. Go check it out here.

Bears/Hibernation and Bb

Brianna is 20 months
Connor is 42 months

Before i get started on our school post, i am excited to tell you that my sister has started a blog! Its called Growing Your Grass Greener and its all about how she, as a christian wife and mom to 4, can share tips and ideas to help you have a better home life. She will have decorating tips, cooking ideas, posts about being a good wife and mom and more! So please check her out :)

Ok, on to our week…

Bears:

The kids hibernated in a tent.

We read these books:

(this is a GREAT one about hibernation)

And this one was Brianna’s and Connor’s favorite:

We also played a hide and seek game with teddy bears. We took turns hiding the bears from eachother. They both LOVED this game and we will definitely be playing it again soon.

Bb is for:

bear,

brown,

and bears, bunnies and blue.

Misc:

We played in the leaves!

Number 6.

We talked about animal footprints and made footprint Jell-o.

Brianna played with her fisher price fish.

Pouring lentils kept her busy.

Connor helped daddy mend a hole in the wall where our outlet used to be. It was so sweet because he put all his play tools in a bin and brought them downstairs so he could help :)

Lastly, Connor and i went on another mommy/son date.

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