Activities

 For my business blog I'm starting a 30 Days of Fun - Preschool Edition set of posts. But in order to really do it correctly, I need to try out the activities before I suggest them to the world.  Luckily I happen to have a couple of preschoolers around to help me!

 Our first activity was to use a plastic spoon to put marbles into a water bottle.  This helps with eye/hand coordination and fine motor skills.  They liked it!

 The second activity we tried was to use toothpicks and grapes to build things. 

They really liked this! They also managed to eat most of the grapes so I'm not sure we'll get to do it again soon, but it's def an activity to do again!

Unfortunately for my blog, I wasn't thinking when I choose these activities.  The point was to do one from each category (science, math, reading, writing, gross and fine motor skills), but I managed to pull the first two activities from the Fine Motor Skills list.  So we may do one category at a time and then move on. You'll have to check out what I do on Play 2 Learn with Sarah and stop by to see the new look!  I got some help with my design! 

Baby Bonnie

Over Easter weekend, I went to CO to visit Bonnie (I did say hi to Matt and Lydia too but really just to visit Bonnie)!  She's pretty stinking cute...as you can see and I never heard her cry once in 48 hrs!

She only likes to stand or play on the floor...no sitting around for this girl!

Here she's wearing the bonnet my Mom made for her!  She's a model!

The boys did fine at home with Daddy by themselves although Connor was very worried they wouldn't be ok without me. He made me promise not to go anywhere without him again when I got home!

Business Blog

My SimplyFun business is really growing...I'm up to 12 team members! It's so much fun working with women to help them create their own ideal versions of a home-based business and brainstorm ways of growing all of our businesses.

I'm working on a business blog too...Play 2 Learn with Sarah is where I share tips about games, books, the power of play and more! Please check it out and come back often to see what I'm up to!

Pictures from My Phone

Thought I'd post some random pictures I'd taken with my phone lately. The camera is still not cooperating so the phone is pretty much all we have these days.

We went to the San Antoinio Zoo and got to interact with the hippos. It was VERY cool!

Connor and his friend, Luke, needed a potty break while jumping on the trampoline...the inside potty was too far from the fun!

The bluebonnets are awesome this year!

Picnic in the park

Evan loves Tino's Greek Cafe

Playing Share A Berry


Connor got up too early and was cranky by the time afternoon rolled around. We have been skipping nap time lately since neither of them falls asleep until after 10pm if they nap.

Connor's Birthday

Sorry it's a little late, but life has gotten away from me again!

We had Connor's party on Feb 11th. Grandma Betty and Grandpa Joe came down from Indiana for the big event!

At Connor's 4 yr check up he was 41.5" tall and 37 lbs...so that's the 75th%!

Oh Boy!

Connor and Evan were having lots of fun playing outside this afternoon. A couple of times I saw Connor pee in the yard because he didn't want to stop playing to come in. Then...I heard him laughing and screaming. I looked out to see him jumping up and down under the fort with his pants around his ankles (remember we live on a golf course where there are usually people standing by the back fence). I went out there to tell him to pull up his pants. He said "They're wet!" I told him to pull them up and come in to change them. So he did and then came running to me and said, "The dogs think it's funny to eat my poopies!" I started to laugh and run to where Evan was still playing. I asked him to point where he'd gone and sure enough there was nothing in the grass there. I really had to work hard to not laugh in front of him so I could explain why it's not so bad to do pee pee's in the back yard but he cannot do poopies! People think I make this stuff up...but I don't!

Funny Connor

Connor's done a few funny things lately that I don't want to forget!

First, the other day he was singing "Larry had a little lamb..." It was soooo funny!

Then tonight he wanted me to lay in bed with him. After a few minutes he said he wanted to sleep ON me. He kept wiggling around and burying his face in me and looking at his fingers and making a three with each hand. I was starting to get a little weirded out and then he said "I'm being a sloth!" I started laughing so hard. How many kids pretend to be sloths? Most don't do it on purpose!