Hannah 9 months and Caden 26 months

We were having story time in Caden's room today.  What we do is pull out all the stuffed animals and a few pillows and gather around and read.  Today, Caden decided he wanted to hold Hannah (which is very rare).  He knows what gentle is but chooses to be gentle then ruff.  We had a good time so I hadddd to take some pictures.  Hope you enjoy!

New Curriculum

I am currently beginning a new Curriculum Guide with Caden.  It is called The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.    So far Caden is interested!!  The first thing you do is read the book that is assigned.  It is called The Piggy in The Puddle, once you read it there are all kinds of activities to go along with it.  Below is a list of activities we have already done.

• Learning Center- At the Sand and Water Table center we purchased some rubber ducks from Party City and I drew shapes on the bottom of the ducks.  I had a water bucket and dry bucket.  We talked about the following:

1. Wet and Dry-when we pulled the ducks out of the water we would dry them off.  
2. Wet and Dry-Transfer wet ducks to dry bucket with a net.
3. Counting- We counted the ducks when we would catch them in the net.  He only counted up to two.
4. Shapes-Wasn't interested, we talked about a few.  He does know some of them but he was more interested in using the net.

• Activity- 

1. Introduced vocabulary card-pigs
2. Looked at the pig pictures and talked about What color pigs are?  What do pigs like to do? What do pigs eat?  and Have you ever seen a pig?
3. Hand Puppet-I made a pig hand puppet and he loved it.  He calls it Oink Oink!  He wanted hime to play cars with him.  I had Oink Oink show Caden his other pig friends and we hung them on the wall.  We also talked about baby pigs, mamma pigs, and different color pigs.  Caden cried when I put Oink Oink away.

• Creative Arts-

1. Paper Plate Pig

Chicken with Rotisserie seasoning

Ingredients:

Chicken drumsticks with bone and skin (as much as you need for your family)

McCormick Rotisserie Seasoning

Italian Dressing

Balsamic Dressing

Red Pepper Flakes

Directions:

Preheat oven at 400.  Place chicken in a baking dish.  Sprinkle McCormick Rotisserie Seasoning on chicken (both sides).  Drizzle italian dressing and balsamic dressing over chicken.  Then sprinkle red pepper flakes over chicken (remember more is hotter).  Cook for 45 min. or until chicken is done.  

Water Play

Caden lovesssss his cars!  We were playing outside and he poured Kelso's (our dog) water bowl out and started rolling his cars though the water.

Helping Daddy mow the lawn

Soooo cute!  I previoulsly posted Caden mowing the lawn and he mowed for about 45 min.  Well Aaron was mowing and Caden wanted to help Daddy so we had to take a pic.  

Counting Caterpillar Floor Puzzle

I got this Counting Caterpillar Floor Puzzle from a children's resale shop for $5.  Great Buy!!!!  It is a great Leap Frog puzzle.  He really enjoyed finding the number word to match the numeric number.  It also helps him to learn the numeric order.  He did great!  Oh and the other little puzzle he is holding in one of the pictures I got at the same resale shop and it was $1.  Got to love great buys! 

Online Game

We played a cute online game that worked with the alphabet.  Caden would push a letter and then an animal would come on the screen and made it's sound.  Caden would even say the letter before he pushed it on the keyboard.  He just couldn't wait to see what animal would come up when he pushed the letter.

The best birthday part ever!

We went to our friend Regan's birthday party this weekend at Wildlife Center.  It was so fun!  You go on this ride...kind of like a hayride but with no hay.  It takes you on a trail where all the animals are and they eat right from your hand or bucket.  We saw zebras, camels, buffaloes, ostriches, and more!  The best part is that the animals are so extremely close and the kids absolutely love it.

Tents and more

Last week we had cousin Zoe over and as always had a great time.  I made tents for both of the kids!  I wanted to make something that was safe so nothing would fall on them.  So I stapled the blankets to the wall and to the entertainment center.  It worked great!:)  Hannah wanted to play sooooo bad but wasn't' sure what she was supposed to do to join in on the fun.  Then we all went to the park. After the park we went to story time at the library Zoe loved it.  She mainly enjoyed the singing part!:)  After the library we came home and played outside with water.  I put the water in some containers and put some toys that they could pour the water into.  They weren't to interested, just interested in splashing each other.  They still had fun!  Fun day! 

Dorito Casserole

Dorito Casserole

Ingredients:

1 bag of nacho cheese Doritoes or the spicy ones

1 can of cream of mushroom soup

1 can of rotel

1 package of taco seasoning 

3-4 chicken breast

Shredded cheddar cheese

Cut chicken into cubes and then cook chicken on stove and then follow the directions on the back of the taco seasoning mix.  Once chicken is cooked and taco seasoning is in then add 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and 1 can of Rotel.  Stir.  While that is heating up get a baking dish and put a layer of Doritoes and sprinkle cheese on top.  Then pour in your chicken mixture and you can put another layer of Doritoes and cheese or I just sprinkle cheese on top.  Cover and cook in oven at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until cheese has melted.  

Hannah's First Step

Yeahhhhh!!!!  Hannah took her first step on Sun., March 1st, Aaron and I's 6 year Anniversary!!!  We were at my parents house and we were having Hannah walk back and forth between me and Aaron (we were holding her hands).  We let go and she took two steps!!!  Balanced and everything.

(Picture is not at parents house or when she was taking her steps)

Hammering

It was so funny last week we were outside and Aaron was hammering a wind chime up and Caden ran and got his hammer and started hammering everything.  Halarious!!!

Caden's Shamrocks

Since St. Patrick's Day is this month I wanted Caden to learn what Shamrocks are.  We are going to do a few activities all month and our first one was done today.  I cut out shamrocks and with glue I put 1 letter of his name on each shamrock and he sprinkled the glitter on.  He enjoyed seeing and calling out the letters of his name.

David and Goliath

We have been reading about David and Goliath in our Bible Book (Caden calls it). We also did a craft to go along with it. It is called David's Bag of Stone's. Caden enjoyed painting the rocks and had to put googlie eyes on them.