Week of Feb. 24, 2014: D is for Dinosaur and Kitchen Redo

This week was D for Dinosaur week!  Katie had fun coloring dinosaur pages...

 

 ...making dino footprints in playdough.

Doesn't Audrey look fascinated?!  This is seconds before this dino ended up in her mouth!

We had tot school at Evan's house.  The kiddos made their names out of dinosaurs.

and made chocolate "mud"!

There's also, as always, been lots of dress-up and dancing!

Katie saw this cute craft on facebook so she got out her markers and made a pink paper plate snake.

She had fun exploring magnets.

Miss Audrey is learning how to pet Lillie (instead of pulling all her hair out).

Daddy had a big project this weekend.  He moved the refrigerator into our laundry room to give us more counter space in the kitchen.  Katie helped him put together a pantry for our food space we were losing in the laundry room.

He also hung up some bulletin boards and white boards for the girls' school space.

Katie took advantage of the big pieces of box the new pantry came in.  She created a "castle".

 Then quickly surrounded her picnic table with it and settled down for lunch.

Plugging in the refrigerator was quite interesting.  In the end I had to squeeze behind the fridge to plug it in.

Katie is quickly learning the art of the perfect chicken fried steak.  Can't wait for Audrey to join us and cook, too!

Daddy and all his girls curled up on the couch.

We had some more winter weather come in.  We grabbed some sleet from the back patio and the girls had a sleet tea party.  We've also had lots of fun feeding the birds.  Katie gets excited when she sees their tracks in the snow and she is learning to recognize the different types of birds.

Catch-up

For those of you having Katie and Audrey withdrawals here's a collection of all the pics from the past few weeks...enjoy!

 

Week of January 27, 2014: Sick Babies

We have had a very interesting week.  Starting Tuesday both our little girls came down with a fever...poor things ended up with an upper respiratory virus.  So...we did a lot of laying around and relaxing (or as Katie would say, "laxing"). 

 

 



Audrey perfected her two-handed spoon technique for eating prunes.

 

Katie did a lot of tv watching.

Audrey has felt a lot better than Katie and only had a couple really rough days.

Katie played a little bit with her new Princess Sophia castle.

She did a little painting.

Oh my goodness, I opened the freezer and dumped A LOT of coffee on the floor.  Well, no use crying over spilled coffee, let's make it a sensory experience and write and draw in it!  Thanks Daddy for the great idea!  Katie had lots of fun drawing in the coffee and then helped sweep it up.

One of the shows Katie watched this week showed you how to draw.  Katie wanted to get out her crayons and try drawing like on the show.

Katie helped put up the silverware...she's barely tall enough to reach.

Both girls loved watching the birds in the snow.

Katie used her scissors to hold chalk and color on her chalkboard.

But, we mostly just laid around, cuddling on the couch.  The girls had a couple really hard nights where there wasn't much sleep because of coughing but, luckily Daddy took off Thursday night and we made it through the roughest part.