Thing 1 and Thing 2 turn 4 and 2

Happy Birthday Declan and Rory! We had a Dr. Seuss theme party at the My Gym. The boys celebrated with all of their friends. We danced, we jumped, we swung, we zip lined, we parachuted, we had a ball fight, we had snow, we slid, we had green eggs and ham, we sang, and best of all we ate cake!  Yay Declan is 4 and Rory is 2 (almost)!

Ball fight....

some dancing....

VIP treatment...

Happy Birthday to you....

today was good, today was fun. Thank you, thank you everyone!

Celebrating at Jaxson's Ice Cream Parloron Rory's Birthday....

at the park on Declan's birthday

St. Patrick's Day

Thanks Kilnock for the awesome Irish stuff. Declan and Rory wore it proud.

Ireland!

don't mess with the best

my thinking cap

snack break with Alexander and Filip

ready for the parade

VIP

yo yo yo with a fro

Shark in the water!

Our Garden

We decided to test out our green thumbs. In early Feburary we planted tomatoes and cucumbers and onions. The boys are enjoying watering the plants and seeing their plants grow. We recently bought some watering cans, they love them. Here is our progress.

tomato sprout

cucumber sprout

water boys

water boys

tomato plants a few weeks later

Declan watering cucumber plants

cucumber plants latching onto the palm trees

our first cucumber!!

fun projects and experiments

My friend and I have been getting our kids together twice a week to homeschool. We read a new book each week and center activities around the book. Here are a few things we have been doing.

frozen colored ice cubes, mixing to make new colors

fun creating new colors....

We melted crayons.

Declan and Daddy getting the wrappers off

melting crayons with a hair dryer

Declan's Crayon Art Masterpiece

Melting crayons in action....

mixing baking soda and vinegar....

We read 'Caps For Sale', a book about a peddler who sells caps and carries them all on top of his head while trying to sell them.

Declan and Rory balancing caps on their head....

using fine motor skills to stack cheerios on a spaghetti noodle

the m floats off of m&m's when placed in warm water, and the colors swirl too

Activities from the story 'The Snowy Day'.....

sorting warm and cold weather clothes

painting a snow scene- using doll shoes, q tips and toothpicks to make tracks in the snow