Happy Valentines Day

I got my little sweeties a few gifts. Scratch n sniff stickers (I think I'll have to take a few of these for my journal for old times sake), glitter nail polish (will be a HUGE hit since I don't let them have it normally), Hershey Kisses chapstick (one can never have enough yummy flavored chapsticks). Walker got a cute video, Prayer Bear, the kids already love it.

Happy Valentines Day!

Blizzard 2011

We only got outside for a few minutes today. Walker was very upset he could not hold the shovel with his gloves on. The girls climbed snow drifts and rolled down them, met a new little neighbor girl and buried each other in snow. Cullen shoveled snow and used his snowblower on the whole block for two hours today. We were happy to come back inside, get warm and eat gumbo and chocolate chip cookies.

Walker Digging

As I said in my previous post, I'm trying to find kitchen activities for my cute, mischievous and curious little boy. I settled on a bean box, after seeing something similar on a montessori blog. I already had beans he could transfer and scoop up with his front loader but I wanted to try to contain them a bit more (ha!). So I got more beans and pasta and found some small toys to hide inside the beans for Walker to excavate. This goes pretty well and does end up with beans on the floor. Another small price to pay for 15 minutes of controlled activity for my two year old.

Walker Painting

Walker is very ACTIVE. Basically at home all day we are busy bees. I've learned it pays to be constructive with our energy. At least, it still ends in a mess, but it's usually a controlled, anticipated mess. So I'm on the hunt for activities we can do in the kitchen, since that's usually where I spend most of our mornings before lunch and nap.

Carys participated in Walker's first watercolor experience. I have to say it could have been a LOT messier but he did a fair job of getting paint on the paper as well as his body.

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