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Everything by lauraskathi

Grandma

New Beginning by laurakathi at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com

Water Treatment Plant field trip

Today we ventured out to a local water treatment plant for a tour. Carl took the morning off to join us and I had planned to stay home with William but he was crushed at the idea of being left out of a field trip. So we packed up and headed out and as I had thought William was both underwhelmed by the tour and overwhelmed by the noises. It was an interesting tour - the tour guide was excellent. The parents had a lot of questions and we had an excellent turn out.

Super Hero Tea Party Invitation

A friend's almost 4 year old wants a Super Hero Tea Party for his birthday so I helped make the invitation!

Action Hero Collection Biggie by Amanda McGee available at www.scrapgirls.com

Potty and Storytime

William has been spending most at home days diaper free (and usually underpants free too!). Today was a rare event - underpants!


He has been quite enamored lately with the idea that he is a cat


Cute, clean kids ready for a bedtime story

Easter festivities

I have downloaded at least 200 pictures in the last week - this is just a little preview.

Easter Bunny Tangrams


Dyeing eggs


Easter at Grandma & Papa's House was great fun.

The Easter Bunny left lots and lots of eggs in backyard


A water fight broke out after Grandma gave the kids water shooters


Decorating Easter basket cupcakes




and sidewalk chalk outside with the neighbors and dueling cameras!

Joyful Noise

Credits at DST

Dance

Everything* from Birgit Kerr's amazing grab bag available @ Scrapbook Graphics only March 21st (midnight EST) - March 24th (midnight EST) 2008. Don't miss it - there are tons of excellent goodies!

The best of 5

credits @ DST

I am so very lucky

LDD Apprentice Freebies:
MrsB - glitter shamrock
Bohemian Art - frames
JodyKnapp - lucky stitches

Stand Up and Scrap:
Gina Miller - lime swirl paper

Camellia Symphony

Gorgeous new Front Porch kit by Birgit Kerr available at Scrapbook Graphics. I am looking forward to scrapping pictures of Emme and Zachary dancing together with more of this kit.

Sink or Float

Feb. 13, 2008

We had been discussing the difference between floating and sinking so we went on a walk around the neighborhood to collect items for an experiment. We filled a bowl with water, made guesses and recorded our findings.

Field Trip: Grocery Store

This week we went on a field trip to the local grocery store. We toured the store, tasted fresh ground peanut butter, talked to the meat counter manager (he broke open an oyster to see the oyster inside!), got to see the giant cardboard compacter in action and we even went through the dairy refrigerator and saw where the milk gets put out for purchase. It was fun and the boys did a great job walking, holding hands and listening to the manager who took us on our tour.

The Alphabet

We aren't pushing letter writing, knowing it will come with time. We practice when he wants to and try to create moments where writing is fun.Last week our fun moment was with chalk. Both boys helped me sing the ABC's while I wrote the big letters down the walkway and then Zachary sat down and got to work writing the entire alphabet. He did awesome.



He still struggles a bit with V, W, K - getting that angle is a challenge for him.



But look at that perfect pink M!


Stretching on the letters...





Making letters with wooden construction toys (and looking a little demonic!)



W has been doing a great job of counting objects


Silly kids -