The past week

The Discovery room in the Science Center. You are given a hour to play and then it’s the next block of children’s turn. The kids didn’t even make it through ½ of the room. They find something that they enjoy and stick with it. Caleb played with the racing cars the whole hour. Maddie liked the marbles and the bugs. She truly has a love hate relationship with bugs.





We meet the med moms at Tower Grove water play area.




Madeline loved to help feed baby Watt at the softball picnic.

Spiders

No it’s not Halloween in our house. You might be asking yourself why I would make my children a spider to play with especially since some spiders are extremely dangerous and this might entice them to play with any given one. Here is the story behind the spider.

Since fishing on Saturday, Madeline has requested her “spiders” we know them as fishing lures. See Eric went ahead of me with the kids and when I arrived Maddie had the lure box and had come attached to it. My first reaction was to tell her that they are just like spiders and she needed to stay away from them. Since Sunday, Maddie has found the lure box on many occasions and claimed her "spiders." She has asked repeatedly to see her spiders and I reply they are sleeping. Through my quest to figure out how to keep her mind off the “spiders” long enough for her to forget about them I decided we would make spiders. I kids love their new craft and have spent hours playing with them. So my next step is for them to get tired of the spiders, forget about them and then re-teach them that spiders are not to play with.

Yeah, a strategy that might have not been thought out properly. But in the light of things the kids love them.

Thumbprints

Caleb's


Madeline's (not sure why this is sideways)



We used finger paints. After the kids placed their thumb/finger down in the paint they made a print on their paper and told me what they wanted their print to be. I drew around their print to make the caterpillar, butterfly, dinosaur, muscle man, etc. It was fun seeing their minds come up with what they wanted to see on the paper.

Mix and Match

Colors, Shapes and the alphabet.






I placed stickers on a piece of paper. Then I cut out smaller squared pieces and place the exact other sticker on the square. The kids had a lot of fun matching the exact sticker to the one on the paper. Caleb enjoyed it so much that I made him one that was at his level. The alphabet.

A Sunday afternoon

Wow, that is amazing

Let's go fishing.


Yummy....



Let's paint

Our Garden

It is so exciting to actually have tomatoes. I love our little garden. We had sweet peas this summer and the kids and I had so much fun eating sweet peas from the vine in the warm sun. Our strawberry bushes only produced 2 strawberries but looks green as ever. Next year we are going to do our squash. We know that it will take over but I really miss it and we will see what we can do to maintain it.

Spiderman

Calebs favorite thing right now is dressing up like Spiderman. Here is a picture of this morning while the kids watched Spiderman. The other one is from yesterday.