Week of May 12, 2014: Pete the Cat and His 4 Groovy Buttons

 

We read a great book this week called Pete the Cat and His 4 Groovy Buttons.  It is definitely on our must-have in our home library list.  The girls had fun reading the book over and over.

We went to the store to get buttons for our Pete the Cat activities.  Katie picked out some stickers and made lots of beautiful art.


For the first time Audrey was able to play with playdough without devouring it.  She squeezed it between her fingers and pulled it apart.  Katie had fun cutting hair with one of her playdough sets.

We made a sensory tub with lintels and tiny buttons.  Katie dug and found the buttons and matched them to the circles on her paper. 

 Then she decided she needed to make a cake with her buttons and lintels so we brought out the muffin pans and cookie sheets.

It was a beautiful day for a bike ride so we brought the bikes and trailer out of the shed.  I was able to ride my Grandmother's old bike that Rich has been working on so I was excited about that.  We got it when I was pregnant with Audrey so I have hardly gotten to ride on it.  Now Audrey is old enough to sit in the bike trailer so we can all go on rides. 

The kiddos had their friends over for some more Pete the Cat fun.  We read the book, made a button snake, counted buttons and played outside.

 

Katie and I made shapes using her geoboards.  She really had to concentrate to get the rubber bands stretched out just right to fit over the pegs on the board.

We've also had lots of outside time and bubble time!

Week of May 5, 2014: Sick Family and Mother's Day

Well you can't tell by the pictures but, we had a bad week of being sick here at our house.  All these pics were taken over the weekend, when we were pretty much over it but, the rest of the week was spent laying around, watching t.v.  Even Daddy got sick, which is a rare thing around here.

 

After we got to feeling better we went on a zoo trip.  Katie wanted to see one thing-pink animals.  So I told her that the only pink animal that I knew of at our zoo was the flamingos.  As soon as we walked in to the zoo we took the train in the back to see the flamingos.  

 

Then we saw the baby aladabras tortoise hatchlings and visited the aladabras adults.

 

 

For Mother's Day we went and picked out annuals to fill in our perennial bed, blueberry bed and pots on the patio.  Then the girls and I planted them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We spent Saturday getting ready for Katie's recital that evening.  We had dress rehearsal that morning then everyone met at our house before the recital.  Hannah helped Katie get a little bit of make-up on just so she wouldn't look washed out on stage.

  Katie danced beautifully but, by the end of the night she was worn out! 

 

 This is as real as it gets around here...the girls playing in the dirt, with mouthfuls of banana bread.  I love the Mother's Day pictures the girls and I took together, dirt and all.

The wind was blowing so hard on Sunday that dirt kept getting in Audrey's eyes.