Easter 2012

A picture is worth a thousand words. We had an awesome Easter this year!

Garden Center--Sensory Play

Well the pool is still in the house but the beans were getting old so we put those away. I went to walmart and bought artificial flowers, easter grass, and decorative rock and put it all in the pool along with some plastic cups to be "flower pots". Real flower pots would be more fun but I didn't think of that until we got home so I improvised. They have been playing with this for a couple of days now. They plant thier flowers and arrange the rocks. They are having so much fun!

Since taking the pictures, I have also added some toy chickens and plastic eggs for more of an Easter/spring theme. They have been filling the eggs with rocks and making nests for them. :)

Dinosaurs

We went to the Putnam Museum this week to see the Dinosaur exibit. Geesh that thing was expensive but worth it! All the kids loved it except my princess. She just wanted to get through to the good stuff like the Discovery Room. Here are some pics!

Sensory play--planting trees

We had broughten the wading pool inside after a storm blew it halfway accross town, so I decided to take advantage of the situation. We have had a bin full of dried beans to use for sensory therapy for years now, and I decided to try somthing larger scale for a change. I dumped the beans into the pool, and the kids had a blast "planting" the plastic trees we bought arround Christmas. We just may keep the pool indoors when not in use for similar activities.

Back to Blogging--New Baby

Well I have been MIA in the blog world as of late and for good reason. On January 20th, we welcomed our newest little family member and needless to say, learning to juggle four kiddos has been a bit of a challenge. But hey, what's one more right? We are finally getting back into the swing of things, but it is still pretty crazy around here! Here's some of my little fuzzy one.

He is going on two months old now, and I can hardly believe it!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Gingerbread house and Christmas Tree Forest

We decorated our Gingerbread house on Tuesday this week. It was just one of those kits from Walmart, but the kids loved it. The two older kiddos decorated the front and the back, and Little Guy helped me with the roof since it is far easier to make stuff stick on the roof. He was a little resistant to getting frosting on his fingers, but in the end peer pressure won out over his sensory issues and he joined right in.

As far as school goes, we have been doing lots of seasonal folder games in addition to our online programs. We will be doing mostly fun crafts and activities next week of course. One of my favorite things to do for the different holidays is to have "seasonal bins" that can be played with in different ways. Right now, we have a bin with small ornaments that look like wrapped presents that I got from the dollar store and some small stockings. The kids like to play with them with their dolls and stuffed animals. I assembled that bin last year and pulled it out again this year. This year, I added a bin of the small fake decorative pine trees that are meant to be used with the porcelain villages. The kids have so far enjoyed making Christmas tree forests for their farm animals and their fisher price people. The trees haven't made it as far as the dollhouse or the playmobil sets, but my guess is that is what will happen to them next. :) Either that or spiderman and Batman will have a nice holiday!