It's a Playing Kind of Day!!

It's raining outside right now.  I thought it was going to be a wash out sort of day and had lots of indoor activities planned... Foil Hearts, Play Dough, Rice Table, Pin the Heart on Henrietta (Again & Again & Again) and of course Free Play is always an option.  Instead the rain held out and so out we went!!!

First we had snack outside....

Yum!!!  Can you see Scamp eyeing those goldfish!!!

I brought the play dough I had planned on using inside, outside.
This is exactly how it stayed :)
Not one kid stopped what they were doing and played with it. 

Sprout trying to convince Roo to come play "Witches" with her.

 Weighing the risks of going up, maybe??

Taking a drink break

Whose in here???

Don't you just wish you could read their minds at times like this ;)

Sometimes the need to be flexible outweighs the planned curriculum.  The joy of running outside, turning over rocks, trying to find a wet mud puddle (which was to funny watching Roo & Sprout doing just that), feeling drops of rain on our faces every now and then, using our large muscles to climb, run, and push, and navigating the world of friendships, is all the learning and teaching you sometimes need :)

Hope you enjoyed your day as much as we did!!!

Wordless Wednesday

If you want to know someones personality..

look at their HAIR ;)










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Happy Valentine's Day

Well, I cannot believe not one person even tried to guess what we did yesterday.  Oh well, you'll have to wait to find out.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Shaking our Pancake Mix for our Heart Shaped Breakfast!!

YUM, YUM!!

Party Time!!

Pin the Nose on Henrietta the Heart

Frosting our Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies!!

Love it... I asked Little Man if he liked his Cookie Pop??
He's thinking about it ;)

Dance, Dance, Dance

Pass the Heart...
Whoever had the Heart when the music stopped had to get up and do a jig!!

Being Silly Together!!!

What a wonderful day we had... Hope yours was too!!!

Can You Guess What We Did Today??

Go On... Take a Guess!!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

It's Scavenger Hunt Sunday!!  

I had some ideas for this week, but couldn't get the "Spicy" photo I wanted... 

So here goes...

SHADOW

Little Man finding his shadow on Groundhog Day

 FACIAL

There is something about Sprouts facial features that make her very photogenic...
Even when she's not so happy ;)

GOLD

This is part of the Lock Box we play with all the time!!
I was disappointed that I got the blue from the table in it...
Still learning

SPICY

I want to get a "SPICY" picture of one of the kids...
They can make some great faces and I really wanted to catch it, but it was not to be :(

FABRIC

I am a real neutral kind of person...
So when we bought our neutral brown couch that came with a chair with this fabric...
well, let's just say it took me a long time to get used to it :)


Next week the Scavenger Hunt Sunday collection will include...
LOVE
DUPLICATED
TREND or TRENDING
PAPER
PLASTIC

I will have to think hard on some of those... 

A Visit From the Librarian

 Oh My... are we one lucky daycare!!  We live in such a great little town because our library has an outreach program that allows one of their wonderful librarians to visit local schools, daycare homes, childcare centers and preschool programs.  Now, it took me a while to learn about Miss Crystal, but I am so glad I dropped by the library with my young son one evening and there she was, not only with a world of information about visiting the library with my kiddos, but the outreach program.  We talked, set up a time, and the kids and I began the wait and the anticipation of having our very own STORYTIME, right here at the house!!!  See what I mean... aren't we soooo lucky!!!

Miss Crystal was so great with the kid.  I think I was more nervous about the kids getting up, moving, talking, touching, etc... than she was.  I guess she's a pro at this, because she did such a great job with the little ones, even helping to dry the tears of one of the kids (yes, brought on by my asking them to sit down.  I should have just left it up to Miss Crystal :) )  I am so happy to have this program available to us, and we look forward to when Miss Crystal comes again!!!

I had to post this picture of our morning snack!!  

Aren't they the cutest muffins you've ever seen?? 

We thought so!! 

And they tasted as good as they looked ;)

Wordless Wednesday

 

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