Megan School 1/18 - 1/22

This week for Itty Bitty Bookworms we read WHEN IT STARTS TO SNOW. It's a darling story about where animals go and what they do when it snows. Sadly since it hasn't snowed here all year, we didn't have any snow here to play with. :(

Meg did an art project showing what the deer did in the snow. Can't you tell it's eating grass and moss? Yeah, me too. Haha! She was sad because she didn't want me to take her picture with it.

We played hide & seek and pretended we were hiding in snow.

Muffin Tin Monday lunch with our festive snowflake muffin pan.

Since it had been so nice outside all week the kids actually got a chance to play in the backyard. I came inside to start dinner and came back out to find them raking leaves to jump in.

Tot Trays:
I've seen this idea before here at 1+1+1=1 and at Christmas I finally recieved my new trays. I have nowhere to put them out so I decided to put a tray at each place setting in our dining room table during the day. Then around 4pm I gather them up and put them away for the next day. She's able to go around to each tray and do the activity that she chooses.

Here she's working on making Valentines.

This was matching the numbers to the hat's & scarves.

Snowflake puzzle. They only went together a certain way (whites on blues and blues on whites, no blue/blue or white/white). It was a good challenge for her.

Silly Meg moment of the week:
She had an 'akident' in the bathroom and then requested a bath in the sink. It just looks odd to see a 3yr old in the kitchen sink. :)

Megan School 1/4 - 1/15

We had a very unexpected last 2 weeks so 'Megan School' was pretty much null and void. I spent the week at the hospital with my parents and family as my dad needed a triple bypass. It was very stressful and I'm so thankful for my father-in-law for coming and spending 4 days with us to care for our kids/house/dogs (we had my parents 2 dogs too!). Anyways, all is calm and all is bright now. We are attempting to get back to school this week with a new book however I do want to retouch on some things I didn't feel we finished up.

During the last 2 weeks we began our Itty Bitty Bookworm Curriculum and I loved it!! We started with CORDUROY:

Each day we made a page that ultimately made up a book of all the toys from Corduroy. This was the giraffe.

The letter of the week was 'O'. She first colored it and then she smeared glue all over and sprinkled oatmeal on. After it dried I cut the 'O' out and glued it to a piece of colored paper. I put together a notebook that once we complete all of the ABC's she can go back and look through them.

Staying with the bear theme this week she sorted gummy bears.

Then we counted how many color of each one we had.

We made cinnamon/sugar paw print rolls for snack.

Outside of the Itty Bitty Bookworm we did a few other activities...

We made a 'pantry snowman' (with all stuff I found in the pantry!)

She sorted buttons by color all by herself while I was emptying the dishwasher!

She gave her baby doll a bath.

My mom and I took the girls downtown Seattle and she got to ride the Westlake Center Carousel. That ride never gets old! This particular one went around and around REALLY fast. I was surprised!!

Dave and I also took the kids ice skating. We did this last year on New Years day and Riley loved it! Megan was still pretty young last year and didn't get out on the ice but this year she really thought it was fun. It was so cute to see how happy they were. I love ice skating and Dave plays ice hockey every weekend so hopefully it will be something the girls keep on enjoying...of course we should make more of an effort to take them more than once a year. ;)

See this face?! Yeah, this is the attitude that we've been seeing a lot lately. Spitting, yelling NO!, and stomping off. I realize it's just her testing her boundaries but man does it get old!

Here to hoping for a better week!

Taking an unexpected break

We completed our 1st week last week from the Itty Bitty Bookworm. However, my computer was down so I couldn't download pictures. Then my dad had a heart attack and this week he had open heart surgery....such a frazzled start to the New Year.

I'm happy to say that not only is my dad recovering very well and all went as planned but our computer is also working again. I'm still trying to help my mom out and I think my dad will be home by the end of the week. Lots to do and help out with around here so we are putting 'Megan School' on hold for awhile. At least through the end of this week.

Good-bye Christmas, Hello January!

I absolutely LOVE December and all that it brings . . . cooking, shopping, baking, wrapping, etc., etc. We had a blast during the month doing advent calendar activities and little art projects here and there. We watched so many movies and there were so many days that we never even changed out of our P.J.'s. I love December and Christmas time!!

That being said I am so very happy to be getting back to a normal routine today. Riley's back in school (I almost actually shed a tear as she got on the bus thinking she won't be with us today). I made it back to the gym and Megan got to play with all her little friends at the gym. Then we made it home in time to start our new preschool curriculum. I will be posting more on that towards the end of the week but if you want a sneak peek check THIS out.

All is good and I feel like life is once again moving in the right direction!! Now if only we could get some *snow* around here, life would be perfect. :)