Busy Saturday

Well, I wanted to post some pics of the glass etching I did for Christmas gifts this year but we have a busy, busy day! We ran errands half of the day. Then got home a little later than expected and ate a late dinner. The boy is in bed with his new nightlight and crank flashlight (good therapy) so now it is movie time for the rest of us that are home. Jake is watching the third Transformers movie and we are going to watch Horrible Bosses. We have had several people tell us it was funny. I love weekends!

I have to leave with a pic. Trying to take at least one pic a day. This is the only one I took today! We wore the boy out running all over today!!

Hooray for Friday!

Wow! That was a quick week! So glad it is the weekend though! Just got back from dinner with some girlfriends of mine! That was a great start to the weekend! Looking forward to relaxing this weekend.  If the weather stays the way it has been the last two days maybe spending some times outdoors. That is very unusual for where we live in January. It has felt more like spring than winter here. The last two days have been over 50 degrees.

We had another good daycare day. I think we are finally getting back into a routine after the holidays.  They enjoyed the three tot trays that I put out for them today. One tray had two containers, zoo pasta, and tongs on it. The second had color bears, color cups for sorting, and some tongs. And the third the snowman picture and bottle cap letters on it from the day before.

They loved working with the tongs.

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The boys really enjoyed using the tongs.  I figured they would.  Good fine motor practice!  

Here are my two favorite moments from today.

Caught Jadon reading so intently in the recliner this morning.  He loves these look and find books for toddlers.  This one is Chuggington.

Then this is what I found when I went up to wake Jadon for therapy.  He looks so peaceful.  I just stood there watching him sleep for awhile.  

Have a great weekend!!

Kiana

Tot School Is Back In Session

Today was the first day this week that everybody was here so I figured it was time to get tot school back in session!   We did two winter themed activities.  First we matched snowflakes. 

Jadon and John are really good at finding the matches!

After that we changed it up by playing one of Jadon's new games.  This one is called Monkey Dunk.  They are still working on mastering how exactly to get the frogs to jump so not many actually make it into the pond.  Hopefully after we practice for awhile we will be able to actually play the game.  Either way they are still having fun!

Concentrating really hard on figuring out how to get those darn frogs to jump!

After Monkey Dunk it was time for some play dough!  Jadon loves to play with play dough lately.  One thing we did learn is that homemade play dough is much easier to put through the "ice cream" shop than the store bought stuff!  It was a huge difference!.

I am trying something new with the boys.  I have been wanting to put several tot trays out a week for the boys but it has been a challenge.  Most people that blog about tot trays put them out somewhere were the kids have access to them throughout the day.  Then the kids just do the activities when it suits them.  That is really not possible for me since most of the activities can't be left down for the two babies I watch to get into.  I finally just decided to choose some tot tray activities for the week and put three tray out on the table each day with a different one on them.  We only use one end of our table for meal times during the day so I will just keep the tot trays at the other end and tell the boys they can do them anytime.  Below are the two we did today.  One tray has the snowflake matching game on it pictured above.  The other tray has some bottle cap (milk bottle caps) letters on it and a picture with the word snowman on it.  They are supposed to match the letters on the caps to the letter on the picture.  Really want to start working more on letter and number recognition.  I know that the printables I used today were from Erica at Confessions of a Homeschooler but I could not find them on her site to leave a link here.  Sorry!

.After lunch both of the boys were wild and I was trying to come up with a more quiet activity to get them calmed down for naptime.  I suggested that they play the games on the trays at the table and they quickly climbed up and got to work.  On another note...I am having fun playing with some photo effect apps on my phone.  He, he.

Tomorrow I am thinking of putting out three trays tomorrow with some different activities. 

Dragon Tail Sewing Project and Sewing Goals For This Year

I only did one sewing project this year for Christmas. I made these adorable dragon tails for Jadon, and my nephew, Owen. I thought they would get a kick out of them and they look so darn funny wearing them!

I used this great tutorial from Running With Scissors! I did not do much sewing last year. I collected a lot of sewing tutorials but did not get any done!

I made a list of sewing projects I would like to complete this year:

Duvet cover for my bed

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or

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Pillows/Pillowcases to match

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Doorway Puppet Theater

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Superhero Capes and Masks

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A ruffle curtain for anywhere-just want to try one! I love the look!

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Maybe if I share my goals here I will stick to them!  I had better get to work!

Can't leave without a pic of J-Man today.  He did a little better job sharing today.

After I took those two pics of him he said, "No more Mommy".  As in "Go away. Can't you see we are trying to bowl here?"  LOL!  The kid cracks me up!!  Yesterday I was telling Diesel to stop picking on Dakota or he was going to get his butt kicked by Dakota.  Jadon says, "Mommy, D's (dogs) don't have butts".  Jeez.