New Tunnel

Yesterday we made a new tunnel! Usually we connect the tunnel and the tent...well today Caden gave me a new idea to connect the square pads we use on the floor. So we connected that and made a longer tunnel and boy did he have a good time. Hannah went through it a couple of times but she was ready for dinner a little early so of course she bothered Mommy the entire time I was cooking...nothing entertained her at that point. Boy did she eat a good dinner though! :)

Magic Nuudles

I love this picture...I wish I would have taken it with my SLR.

We had a blast with these Magic Nuudles.    Not messy, easy to clean and fun to play with.  We made shapes, flowers, crosses, and Caden liked making lines.  All you need is a damp sponge. :)))

Being a Big Brother

It was so cute!  Hannah was riding Caden's car.  I figured Caden would yell at Hannah and tell her to get off his car...instead he got on with her and pushed her around.  Cuteee!

Lots of Attention!

Learning Resource Rainbow Peg Play

Memory Tray

Trying to be consistent with eating snack at the same time and at the table.  Hannah kept wanting to go under the table.

Of course he had to knock it down! :)

We hadn't done this stacking game since Easter.  I believe it is Melissa and Doug.  I was so proud of him...he stacked it up all by himself.  

Hannah got the pink tent from her birthday party (It was bought at Ross).  The kids love it!  Oh, and Mommy loves it too because it folds up easily to get it out of the way when we aren't using it.  The tunnel folds up nicely too...we got that at the good will.  So I connected the two and they played for about 30-45 min.  Of course with me!

Today was the day the kids needed lots of attention!  I would step away for a second and screaming, yelling, rolling on top of each other, and anything would happen as soon as I stepped away.  They did not play independently at all today...so I had to play right there with them the entire day.  Usually they will have a few of their independent moments...but not today!    We had a good time though!

Salt Art

Got this Salt Art activity from here!  What a fun activity...we had a great time with this one!  Thank you Ramblings of a Crazy Woman for the great post!

Coloring obsession

Oh, it was so funny yesterday!!!!  Caden kept asking me to color and we only have two coloring books for some odd reason and he didn't want either of them.  So I found this workbook I got a few months ago called Preschool.  I was so impressed with Caden....I turned to a matching page.  On this page it had a list of pictures on both sides of the page.  For example, the directions were to identify each picture in both columns.  Discuss why a dashed line connects the doll with the doll house.  Ask your child to trace that dashed line, and then to draw a line from each of the other items on the left to the correct item on the right.

So we did that an wow can you believe he knew what he was talking about and and and he drew the line.  He did it all by himself I did not hold the marker...all by himself!!!!  I was so proud of him.  Oh and he continued to flip through the workbook and colored for 2 hours.  I am not kidding...you can even ask my husband.    

2 hours of hard work!lol:)

So focused!

Barn

Yesterday I went to the resale shop by my house and found some little animals and dinosaurs.  I got about 15 of them for $9 (Great Buy, they usually cost about $2-$5 a piece).  At first Caden was upset he didn't get any cars but when we got home he totally loved them.  He started lining them up just like he does his cars.  lol:)

That same day we went to the library to get me some books.  Well, I found this book called Plans and Patterns for Preschool by Karen Franz.  So I looked in the book under the month of May just to see what ideas she had.  Well I saw this pattern for a barn and thought to myself...oh...I have a box (from diapers) that we can make into a cute little barn for his new animals.  Boy did he love it!!!!  Caden not only put his animals in it but thought it would be funny to get inside with his animals....why not!

Ccounting with Tumble Down Counting Pegs

I love to listen to Caden counting so I thought I would share.  If you can't hear the video he says, "1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.  It is so funny how he skips, but knows 6-13.  The activity is called tumble down counting pegs.  I bought it about 4-5 months ago and he wasn't interested in it then, he also wasn't counting then either.

At home fun

Hannah loves puzzles!  Caden loves puzzles too but I need to get some new ones because he tells me "Too easy Mommy"!

Caden made me play-doh dinner.

Snakes!  We made play-doh snakes.  I asked Caden if snakes live in the forest, he said "Mmmmm Yes'!  He is a good guesser! :)

Cutting dinner!

Of course Little Miss Priss had to get inside the play-doh box!

Puzzles

Today was a sick day for both of the kids.  They both have a cough and runny nose!  Yuk!  Yes we did just get over the stomach bug.  Boy am I tired!  

Caden is really good at puzzles.  I help him put the side pieces together and he does the middle of each of the puzzles all by himself.  It is so funny, one of Hannah's puzzles has 3 pieces and Caden says, "too easy".  One of the puzzles we used today I got online.  It's pretty cute!  It has cards that you  try and find what is on the picture.  Kind of like Where is Waldo, but a puzzle instead.

When Hannah "does puzzles" she just takes all the pieces out and puts them in her mouth!  She is very good at that!