Busy week

Happy birthday, AJ. We were so excited to meet your sister, Becky! And thanks for sharing your cupcakes with us!

We made some new play dough this week. After mixing the ingredients, Oden thought it was play dough and we could play with it. He quickly changed his mind when he touched it! It was gooey!  We decided to try cooking it, and then it really looked like play dough. We had to be a little careful afterwards, it was HOT, but quickly cooled down. We all enjoyed pouring ingredients into the bowl and stirring! This was a great math and science activity for Oden and fine and gross motor activity for the younger ones.

Most mornings, we stayed inside and had extra playtime. (Thanks to AJ's family for driving the school kids to the bus.) When we did get out, we've been having a blast on the snow hill, for some of us, just climbing up is a great experience. Others jump off, or make slides, and we've even added a few snowballs to the top of it!  We've also rediscovered the shovels, we've been digging in the big drifts at the end if the lane way, and also scraping paths all along the driveway!

Lots of winters stories for circle this week. The kids really enjoyed my cat and kitten finger puppets for the three kittens had lost their mittens rhyme.

I am looking forward to some warmer winter weather.  I want to build some snowmen!!! Hopefully next week....

A little late ... valentine recap!

A huge thanks to all families for adding to our party... with treats and Valentines, dressing kids in pink or red... A big thank you to AJ's Oma and Oden and Freya's mom for doing bus duty in their warm vehicles so the little ones could stay in where it was warm (and eat more sugar!!)
The highlight of our party was the parachute. It was fun for us to just hold onto it and shake it! And giving out Valentines was a lot of fun too!

Hmmm...can't get my picture of our heart shaped pizza or all the goodies to upload. Use your imagination!!!

Warmer winter day!

What a nice morning! We all enjoyed our walk this morning. Even Freya got out of the sled and walked for most of it! The boys and I kicked hard snow balls down the driveway. Then they stomped on them and crushed them.  It seems calmer inside this morning after actually getting play time outside! Can't wait to go out earlier this afternoon too! We had 3 skate bags to go to school, so I'm sure they'll be enjoying the outdoors today too!

Cupcakes

Happy Birthday, Tori! We enjoyed sharing cupcakes with you Thursday after school, and hearing all about your birthday weekend this morning!


Congratulations to AJ and family on the safe arrival of Rebecca on Friday! (Tori's excited to know someone who shares her birthday!