Storytime with Grandma Wendy and Papa Keith

11-27-11

Pics of the girls

Our babysitter decided to have a photo shoot with the girls when we were out one night. I'm just seeing these; it's a good thing Rachel's sitting beside me or I wouldn't have known what they were.

Deck the Halls

I love Christmas! And the best part are the decorations and house looking all festive, or maybe the Christmas music. Hmmm.... it's best when it's both. So today instead of braving the stores and shopping we turned on the music and decorated the house including the tree!

Thanksgiving Tradition

We've started a new tradition for Thanksgiving and that's our Thankful tree. The girls loved it!

Birthday - Preschool

The week of Rachel's birthday we learned about birthday and why we celebrate them. We graphed how many people have a birthday in each month. Played with balloons (the girls tried unsuccessfully to blow them up and had more fun having me blow them up and them letting them fly all over the room as the air let out). Baked cupcakes. And let the girls make their own playdough cupcakes. They even wrapped a "present" that they had daddy unwrap that night.

Backyard Family Campout?

Oh what a night! Daddy came home and immediately got to work. It was one of our cooler nights so I actually had to dress the girls warmly for the night. Daddy helped fix one the tents that I didn't have a clue how to put the raincover on and he had many little hands and feet ready to help him.

For dinner we had hot dogs roasted over the fire and smores for desert. (pictures end here)

We had sometime to kill before bed so let the girls play with the flashlight and showed them how to use it to make shadow puppets. Then we played candyland and dominoes. Then back to the house to brush teeth and get ready for bed. Back out to the tents (we didn't have a tent big enough for all of us, nor did Mike and I want to go to sleep at 7pm) put the girls in theres and after an hour of trying to get them to stop playing and sleep we gave up and sent them to bed in the house were asleep in no time.

Nov. 11th

Camping- Preschool

In preparation of the family backyard campout Mike would like to have I themed the girls preschool around camping. We set up a tent in the house, tried out the new sleeping bags, made a campfire, read some books, used marshmallows on a graph to see how much equipment we had (based on rolling a die), put together the correct oar to boat, fished by placing the right color m&m on a fish(for Rachel it was mixing colors), learned to use a ruler by measuring fish, but mostly just played in the tent and got ready for Daddy to come home.