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Dirt, Digging, and Cupcakes!

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O’how I’m not a fan of the the quick catch up but the weather has been beautiful and we have been taking full advantage of it while it lasts. Word on the street is it will be back in the 30’s by next week :(!! We have added new members to our ever growing family “pet rocks”….can you say ‘whoooo hooo’…a low maintenance and inexpensive pet!! Pumpkin has been busy learning about “living vs. non-living things” and I thought this was a perfect time to welcome a pet rock into our home. We went on a hike, painted them, and of coarse made them cozy beds complete with pillows/blankets.

The sand box has been a huge hit this year with both girls..however with another baby on the way (a boy) Im thinking the tiny turtle is just not going to cut it any longer!! Time for an upgrade!!! These girls love to dig!!

What day would not be complete without a sink bath? For Boo this is almost an everyday occurrence. The amount of dirt, syrup, food in her hair, and miscellaneous mess that this little one can have stuck to her body amazes me 🙂 Boo is pretty tiny for 19 mo old…so I’m just thrilled I don’t have to fill the tub every time she needs a good scrub down!!!

Our wonderful Aunt Alisa made rainbow cupcakes for us to eat on St.Patty’s day. These were a big hit with the girls. That’s not all, our awesome Auntie Heather made us green jello…what a sugar rush of a week!!

Boo is a taste tester…. she dips a finger in first before diving in!!! She is one smart cookie!!

Lost marbles…

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Life has been extra crazy these days…is that possible? Boo is cutting her 4 canine teeth and has mastered climbing! Little Peach learned how to pull her self up on EVERYTHING and is cutting her 4 back molars! Lastly, Pumpkin is growing by leaps and bounds everyday and can’t wait for whats still to come! The best part of it all is we have still managed to do school despite the chaos.

Pumpkin and Boo enjoyed our indoor snow activity inspired by Confessions of a Homeschooler. I loved not bundling the kiddos up for an hour to play outside for 20 minutes!! When I told Pumpkin mommy was going to bring some snow in the house to play with…her response was priceless “mommy, Im not sure that’s such a good idea”. My sweet girl that loves things just so thought her mother officially lost her marbles.

It is a rare day that Boo is this focused on any one activity. She really enjoyed transferring the snow into a cup and feeling how cold it was on her tiny hands.

We even built a snowman…he was super cute with cheerio eyes and a raisin nose!

Yep, here it is my proud 18 month old!! I leave the room for 1 second to find her sitting at the table. I must admit, I’m not ready for all the bumps and bruises that come with climbing!!!

Monkey See!! Monkey Do!! This chair was one popular place this week…that’s right the little Peach learned to pull herself up on the same chair that K. Bear learned to climb…hmm? Im thinking this was a conspiracy between them to make all my hair turn gray!!

I’ll fix them… Boo and Peach let me introduce you to a pack’n play!! I have to admit all of the kids had a blast with this thing set up in the living room. I had no idea a pack n’ play could hold 3 children and entertain them for so long. Throughout the day it served as everything from a fort to an airplane going to Florida.

Here is the Peach saying “hello”!!

I often try to do as many activities together with the exception of Pumpkins core curriculum (at which time the little ones are napping, having playtime, or doing tray activities). This one got a bit messy…I won’t lie. Although, I have done cookie cutter painting with Pumpkin before this was Boo’s first experience!!



The finished product came out beautifully!! My favorite part of any “group” activity in our home is watching how well my children work together. Of coarse my kids have their hair pulling fights and plenty of squabbles on any given day. However, one of the joys of homeschooling is having the ability to watch them grow, learn, and nurture one another everyday!! Making the best of those “hot tempered”moments and turning them into something great.

Some PreK Fun

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I wanted to share a few of our recent projects we have done over the past couple weeks at ‘weeexplorers’; most of them have to do with the letter “Ff” as we used that as our primary focus letter for our first week ‘back to school’. Pumpkin knows her letters and sounds but we are now changing gears a bit focusing more on writing the letters. We are using Hand Writing Without Tears…which so far I am really enjoying!!


Our hand print fish came out super cute….my only advice on this one is plan ahead because you have to wait to do each step!!
1) Paint hand and stamp it
2) Let dry and glue eyeball on
3) Color/water color some water for your fish to swim


Pumpkin is exploring with our HWWT homemade mat board and ‘pieces’ complements of my dear friend Andi 🙂 We have been taking the letters very, VERY slowly because Pumpkin tends to have the ‘I know how to do this’ attitude when it comes to writing. The girl loves to write but she does not want help…which makes mommy a bit crazy at times. I try to be patient and make it fun so that the letters are formed correctly. Patience, patience, patience….

What “Ff” week would not be complete without gold fish? Pumpkin had to sort and count each color before she ate them 🙂


We also made “sun catcher fish” these came out absolutely beautiful if I don’t say so myself. I simply cut a fish pattern out of contact paper and the girls attached little tissue paper squares. Super easy!! Pumpkin helped me glue the eyes on and then we hung them for all to see!!

Hope you enjoyed our intro to PreK….much, much , more still to come!!