Saturday, January 28, 2012

trying new things

I tried a spur-of-the-moment photo shoot yesterday. this one was my fav.



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sewing, sewing, sewing

almost done too. le bebe insists on being held most of the time these past few days...so its taking some time. (hens this post. at least he's not demanding I stand while holding him.)



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its a bag to put my oil painting stuff in. I'm taking a class at the end of Feb so you know, gotta tote my gear in style.

based off this cutie .  i love pinterest.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Preschool week 4

this week preschool was replaced by snow! (finally.) The boys and I headed out to sled our little hill in the backyard until gray was tired. After he went down for a nap, des and I built a snowman. I was glad I took pictures right away because not two minutes later he was trying to add a few more rocks to the front and pushed it over.


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we were exploring the yard when I turned around and des had made a quick snack of our snowman's nose.
 


So for the sake of continuity, this week was supposed to be the letter "D" for dogsled. We were going to watch youtube videos of dogsleds (which we tried and he didn't care for) and then on thursday make a marshmallow igloo. Which we may still do today or this weekend if we need a filler/activity.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Climbing fences

Today Des decided he could climb. I've been watching him out the windows all day (plus playing outside this morning for a bit --mom award! hollah!)  and he's been up anything and everything.


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climbing fences
viewing the world from his new vantage point.


We may get to experience our first broken bone this year. *sigh*

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Preschool week 3

c is for cold and cubes

C is for Cold (and cubes of the ice variety if you must.)

Today we talked about hot and cold and I quizzed him on both (what things are hot and what things are cold.) After, we made jello (one of his favorites) with hot and cold water. Then he sat there and ate the ice cubes that were left over (not in the lesson plan but fun, nonetheless.)

preschool week 3

Preschool week 2 recap

so my camera was out of batteries last week. which means no actual pictures during preschool but it ended up being sort of ok since Des wasn't really having it.

but B is for bubbles.

We talked about what things we use to keep ourselves clean (toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, washcloth, ear swabbies) and i had all those things on display for him to talk about. (this part lasted about two seconds before he got upset about his toothbrush being downstairs instead of in the drawer.) We ended the activity with blowing bubbles in the living room.

Later in the week I filled a plastic bin with soapy water and made lots of bubbles with a whisk. I didn't tell him right away so he sort of discovered it on his own which was fun. I set out some things for him to play with (funnels, cups, bowls, spoons and the whisk) and a towel. He seemed to enjoy this since he refuses to have bubbles in his tub now (has issues with not being able to see his toys under the bubbles.) This kid has several issues it seems. ha.


b is for bubbles (not bowling balls)
b is for bubbles and not bowling balls.