Polar Bear, Polar Bear...

Polar bear, polar bear what do you hear....I hear children giggling in my ear. Ok, so these don't look exactly like polar bears, but close enough! We actually did this more for Grace & Gunner to work on the circle shape. We watched Diego's Great Polar Bear Rescue & followed up with reading the book "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" Gavin had to jazz his up a little with some glitter glue. With temps only in the low teens, we'll be spending the rest of the day & night in the warmth of our home. Daddy is off to a meeting in Davenport so we wish him safe travels home.

I Have a Dream...

In honor of MLK, JR's birthay, we talked about his "Dream" speech & life events on a preschool level. I then showed the boys pictures of children from all different races. I asked them what looked different about them. Gavin did most of the talking, & I have to say it was amazing to me that he never mentioned their differences in skin color. He would say, "This one is a girl & this one is a boy," or "This girl has yellow hair & this one has brown." I wasn't sure if I should even tell him about the differences in race but thought I needed to to explain the speech. I then had each kiddo pick out 10 pictures to glue on a collage & told them that because of MLK, they could all be friends. Before being prompted Gavin said, "Mommy, I have a dream that one day I'll go to Cael"s house." So sweet!

Eagle Days 2010

Bald Eagle Days were in Keokuk this weekend. We headed to the mall with Mimi to check out these magnificent birds. The kids played old time games & viewed photos of eagles while we waited for the live show. Definitely the highlight of the day was the vulture flying overhead in the theatre. Pretty cool!

I'm not a big fan of pictures of animals or scenery, but I had to insert these because they were so cool up close & personal! ESPECIALLY the eagle Just gorgeous!

Mimi, Mommy, & Grace ended the day shopping in Quincy. Grace was being a ham during the car ride. She's chewing on her corn dog stick. Love her!

But he was still hungry!

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has become a favorite book this month for the kiddos. They love to crawl on the floor like caterpillar, get wrapped up a blanket for a cocoon, & then spawn wings & fly around like a butterfly. They each take turns sitting on my lap while I read so they had put their fingers in the holes & count the fruits & food. Even Gavin has to have a turn! ;) Yesterday we combined red & yellow paint to make a sun & brown & black paint to make dirt. Today we cut out the shapes & used pom poms to make a caterpillar. Unfortunately, Grace destroyed her painting as well as Gunner's before we could get a picture.

My Flakes!

Another simple craft today to work on our cutting skills. The kiddos snipped off blue pieces of paper & then glued them to the snowflake. In order to encourage them to cut several pieces, I told them I didn't want to see any white left on the snowflake. As you can see, Gavin took that to heart!

Dress-Up

Just thought I'd post some pics of the kiddos playing dress-up. Grace got some really cute stuff for Christmas & the boys asked if they could put it on. Daddy will kill me when he sees these pics but I had to get some blackmail pieces for later in life! ;) They had a ball! I plan to look for some "boy" dress up coats & hats so they don't get confused! The pics of the jester & clown costume came from some dress-up clothes from Aunt Luan. She gave a box of my old dance costumes she had been give for her girls. It also had some old Halloween costumes that the boys made use of.

I actually told Gunner this was his football uniform since Gavin had a bball uniform. He REALLY didn't like that it was pink...nevermind the fringe & sequins!!

Happy National Bird Day!

The boys LOVE watching for Bald Eagles so I was very excited to find out today was National Bird Day... a perfect day to create a Bald Eagle craft! While it was very simple, the boys really liked the addition of the fish. Looking forward to Eagle Days!

Mommy's Angels

Ok, so maybe it's a little late for these angels, but I think they are adorable! The kids really thought they were cool with their faces on them! Other than one or two pieces I cut out, I can honestly say Gavin made 100% of his project. Grace & Gunner both needed 1-on-1 help so we had to make these in shifts. Gunner was REALLY wanting to play tractor tipping so he made us some beatiful noise THE WHOLE TIME! He is back to spending about 80% of the day whining so I'm thinking we're going back to the ENT to see if his ears have anything to do with it.

Do-A-Dots

Do-A-Dot art was a hit this morning! I've had a set for over a year but one of them is broke so they rarely get used. I printed off some winter backgrounds for them to fill in & they went to work. Grace loves stickers right now so she chose to use circle stickers for hers.

All smiles!!

How 'bout them Hawks!

Just wanted to put this in the memory book so Daddy will always be able to remember...Clint is always telling me Mizzou would kill Iowa if they played each other. Well, tonight they got their chance. Mizzou & Iowa were matched up to play in the Insight Bowl. It was a great game, but Iowa came out winning 27-24. Go Hawks!