Zippity-do-da! Something to sing about...

This was our final week for alphabet letters! On Monday it got warm enough to go out and play in the snow, so we practiced tracing the letter "Z" in the snow... after sliding and throwing a few snow balls of course! Ronan was napping while Kieryn and I went out. We played for just over an hour!

 

On Tuesday we tried to wear as many zippers as possible. We practiced zipping and unzipping. We even made some zipper music!

On Wednesday we talked about the zoo and decided to try making our own. So... we first went on an animal hunt through the entire house and gathered our zoo friends.

Then we sorted them into piles so like animals would be in the same pen.

Kieryn wanted her own pen...she can be pretty wild sometimes, so I thought it was a good idea!

On Thursday we practiced our zigging and zagging...

 Kieryn was pretty worn out...

 

That afternoon, Daddy, Kieryn, and Ronan dropped me at the train station. I spent the rest of the week and weekend in Philadelphia at a fitness conference! I had a blast and learned so much!

While I was away, they had visitors... Grandpop, Grandmom, Uncle Kevin, and Tiana!!

The kids had so much fun! I was sad that I missed it, but Steven kept me updated with pictures and video. 

What a wonderful week!

YES- We had a fun week!

This week we covered letter Y! We had lots of fun with yarn, a yo-yo, did a yellow hunt, and watched yodeling videos.

Snow day fun! Kieryn wanted to catch some snow flakes but then she said it was too cold...she enjoys wearing her monkey outfit every now and then... in total we have about 15 inches on the ground in places...hard to tell exact because of drifts.

Ronan turned 8 months on Wednesday! He has begun crawling so we are now rearranging the house and putting up the baby gates...

Valentine's Day fun! Heart French Toast for breakfast..

Thank you Grandpa & Grandma Haug for the Val's Day goodies!!

dancing, cookie making, and we made funny heart glasses...

Heart pizza for supper...

 

Our Valentine's Day surprise from our guys!

And after supper, we had a Valentine's Day treasure hunt. Kieryn loved it!

We had so much fun! Now we are ready for fishing trips this summer!

eXcellent week!

This was an eXcellent week! We had a few snow days, but had so much fun playing at home. Monday was the first of the snowdays, so I decided to do a treasure hunt ( X marks the spot). This was sort of a practice run for the Valentine's Day hunt we plan to have... to make sure she knows how to do it! Each clue had a piece of train track in it and the end "treasure" was the rest of the track. We decided that since the weather was going to keep us inside, she would enjoy some new track.

Before starting the hunt, we talked about treasure hunts, maps, etc and watched an episode of Jake and the Neverland pirates... looking for all the Xs we could find.

 

 She did very well finding all the clues!

Tuesday was a "play day". We played with the track, her trampoline, dress up, etc. We also did an X hunt in the house... not many X things...tough one! The weather was bit nicer so later that day we got to play in the snow!

Kieryn loved it, all 9 inches of it! Steven and Kieryn were out playing for about 1 1/2 hours!

Ronan got to play for about 10 minutes too.

 On Wednesday we talked about xylophones...

We even made our own. This was a fun project. We painted the xylophone sticks by rolling a golf ball around in a shoe box. Kieryn wasn't interested in it for long though... I think because it wasn't messy enough!

Ronan just tore up the newspaper, so we had to move him to a different sensory activity. He's very good at pulling up the tape!

Kieryn loves her new cupcake pjs if you can't tell from the photos... she wears them ALL the time. On Thursday and Friday we worked on tracing X and we made an x-ray of Kieryn's hand. She liked this activity! After she was finished, she wanted to do Mommy and Ronan too! This is her being silly with tracing...She was ready to do something else...

Kieryn is becoming quite the big sister. I caught her helping him try to crawl.

 

On Saturday, Ronan got his first haircut! He did very well. We put in a Thomas video and he watched it while Steven cleaned him up. He looks like a new baby!

 

Until next time...