Weekend Wrap-Up and Monday "School"

Not much is to report here! We are STILL in the apartment and I do not have my mom mobile yet. So we have been hanging out at "home" and when daddy is home we go do little family things. Daddy will take Tiny sledding, the boys to the store, or we go to the mall. WHICH i MUST say our Nordstroms is pretty great!! Here is our weekend and Monday "School"

Saturday

Paps stayed home with Mommy while the Big Boys went to the Fur Rondy (I think it is like the Alaskan Rodeo?). Paps had his 1st pickle and he ate some, but was pretty much unsure about this green thing!Tiny went on his 1st Farris Wheel ride at the carnival and loved every cold moment.
Paps loved playing with ALL the toys without brother aroundThat night we bundled up and went to see the fireworks. I do NOT think I have EVER been this cold in my life! OH MY WORD it was freezing. The boys did not mind but I HATED it!!!! Next year I will stay home :)

Sunday

I can't remember what we did, LOL!!!

Monday

We played with "Window Markers" it was fun, BETTER for Tiny then Paps but still fun. They clean up nice and it was a good 10min of fun!

School Time!

Paps tried some pipe cleaner fun. I stuck the pipe cleaners in and Paps pulled them out and tried to stick them back in. James is STILL having a hard time identifying "A" so we had a "stick on" activity. I used glue and wrote an "A" and an "a" and he was to stick the pom poms and marshmallows on them to make the "A"s. Then I pointed out that this is the SAME "a" that is in his name.

Paps' activity was to eat the marshmallows, ha!

I hope yall had a blessed weekend and a have a great speedy week!!!

I will be posting a "Use what you have Gumbo" recipe tomorrow! xoxo

Eskimo Kisses, Amanda

ABCs Part 2...AND 2 MUST haves

This morning we continued on with A, B, and the C. We made animals with the letters. I got this great idea from the Totally Tots website! This is great for what we are working on! One thing that was a tad hard for Tiny was the gluing the shapes to the correct place. SO I used our PURPLE glue stick and did each step with him. I placed the glue where the shape needed to be and he match the shapes like the sample. It worked GREAT!!!! YAY for purple glue!

Here are the the before and after! He did enjoy this and did a wonderful job. His are now on our walls with painters tape!!What was Paps doing? He was strapped in his chair with a snack, empty wipes box with toys that fit in the top slot, and ate an orange nontoxic crayon colored!

Tiny and I then made pizza which no one ate but ME!! They are only into fruit right now....AHH frustrating! Here are my TWO new obsessions!!!! They make craft time with the kids easy and fun!!

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Eskimo Kisses, Amanda

the ABC's

Today was the first day John went to work all day. The boys and I are apartment bound until we move and get a car. PLEASE pray for this to go by quickly!! I normally do not mind being stuck at home but when your home is about a 700 square foot area, on the 5th floor, it is WAY different! Our neighbors have yet to complain about the running, jumping, yelling, laughing, and crying. BUT I STILL worry about this, it is a stress that I have all day. I pray I can let this go because this worry is stealing my joy of raising our boys at this time. Moving on to our day....

Thanks to friends and Pinterest, I am going to try to do a morning activity and an afternoon activity with the boys! (those of you who may not know, I am about 6M pregnant with baby boy Henry, SO outside snow time is NOT on my agenda as of yet)

This weeks theme yes, I was a 3rd grade teacher and themes are a MUST is ABC, as in the letters A, B, and C.

Today's Morning activity: Parking Lot Flash Cards for Tiny (3yrs old) and color time for Paps (1yrs old)

(I saw this idea on Pinterest for older kids using sight words so I modified it with the A-B-C. This would be so fun for anything: colors, numbers, shapes, and so on)

-We first did the flash cards to make sure Tiny KNEW his A, B, and C. "A" was hard for him, not sure why. He kept calling it "H". SO instead of having him tell me what they are I had him point to the letter when asked "Which one is A"- this was a big help and showed me he DID know his A, B, and C....MODIFICATIONS people modifications!!! :)

-Once he mastered the flash cards we went on to the Parking Lot Game. HE LOVED this!!!! At first I would show him the card and he had to park a car at each "A spot" and so on.

-Then I took away the cards and we played the game by calling out "Park the cars on C." He wanted to play with this ALL day so we left it out so he could play parking lot!While big brother was at ABC school Paps

-Played with cars

-And colored

For our Afternoon Activity we gave the toys a "bath". THEY LOVED loved this! I WAS going to use snow BUT my children are obsessed with eating ice and snow, I mean OBSESSED!!! So I passed on the snow and did "bath time!"

As you can see Paps JUST got clear water with bubbles and still in his PJs

Tiny was given a red bath with bubbles and his ABCs. They played this for about 45min! Make sure to layout towels bc you WILL have water everywhere. BUT it is just water and LOTS of fun SO worth the mess!

and it is now dinner time!!! xoxo

Eskimo Kisses- Amanda

***PS spelling and grammar are NOT my strong areas! sorry