Week of May 13, 2013: Katie is back to "school"

It's our second "normal" week and we are really getting into the swing of things.  Audrey is doing wonderful and Katie is loving being a big sister.  Now that we've got a routine down I decided it was time to get Katie back in the habit of our little lessons that we've been doing since she was about a year.  This time we are doing a letter, number, color and shape a week along with a centralized theme.  This week was F, 3, yellow and square. 

 

The letter F fit perfectly for the activities we've been doing lately...flowers, fairy garden, fish, etc.

 

 Katie's fairy garden

 Katie's gnome garden

 This was a really fun activity for letter recognition, pre-writing skills and fine motor skills.  Katie took little pieces of play do, made circles out of them and placed those circles along the letter. 

  Audrey and Daddy napping.

Katie looking for the frogs that live in our garden.  She followed one around for several minutes one morning saying, "Where are you froggy?  Oh!  There you are!".  Too cute!

We're growing some mint in a barrel next to the vegetable garden and it's now big enough to eat.  Katie likes picking and eating all sorts of food from the garden.

Coloring three fish.

We got Katie a pool for the summer.  The water was freezing cold but that didn't stop Katie or Lillie from jumping in and splashing around.

Sweet little Audrey puts her hand by her mouth a lot.  She always has the cutest expressions when she does this.

At the library on Thursday Katie learned about kites and made kites during craft time.  Well, I made Katie's kite, Katie practiced her cutting skills with her little friend Sydelle.

 

We picked pansies in the front garden.

Practicing making squares with popsicle sticks.

Audrey, Daddy and Lillie taking a nap.

We had two graduation parties this week...my stepsister and our niece.  I only got a chance to take one picture during the parties, this is Katie's cousin Ethan.  Katie loves spending time with her cousins and has lots of fun following Ethan around.  They look a lot alike, don't they?

Audrey will turn four weeks old on Tuesday!  Time is going by way too fast.  The top picture is Audrey and the bottom is Katie at exactly the same age. 

Our last activity for the week was a walk in the field behind our house.  We picked wildflowers and looked for bugs.  It's amazing how much fun we had doing something so simple.  Katie loved all the flowers and ran all over the field shouting, "Look Mommy, look!" at every flower she saw.

Audrey slept through the whole outing.

We found a ladybug.



These were my favorite flowers that we found.

When we got home we put all the flowers we picked into a jar.  Katie loved looking at them while she made her artwork. 

Katie proudly showed off her flower artwork along with all her other art from the week.