What do you want for Christmas?

Handprint Turkeys

This is probably my favorite craft of the whole year!!  I cheated this year, though - usually I use the child's foot for the turkey's body. This year, to save time, I pre-cut the bodies and shapes for the children.  There's so much to do and catch up on around here - we've all been so sick for the last few weeks and today it feels so good to be back to "normal" around here with everybody in attendance.  To be honest, I'm kind of sad that this is a really short week for the holiday - but that will just make our Monday back that much sweeter. :)  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Park

With over 14 days of DRY, cool fall weather, we have been spending lots of time outside.  It's so easy to skip lesson plans, crafts, structured learning time, and even snack once in a while when we get all caught up in an innocent game of freeze tag, or go on wild grasshopper hunts.  We LOVE the outdoors!

One of my favorite things to do is to go for a long walk to the park.  I like the park that is a little further away because there's a nice greenway path to walk on to get there.  We are so spoiled to live in such a pretty town with wonderful parks and playgrounds.

An added bonus: last week, our trip to the park included a meet and greet with Miss Toshia and her group! We love meeting friends at the park, and I love having another adult to laugh with, chat with, and share ideas with. Our recent trip the park was nothing short of AWESOME.  Enjoy some pictures!! :)

Busy Busy Fun!

Sorry to have dropped off the blogging bandwagon! We've been very busy around here.  For Easter, we had a small egg hunt in the backyard - it was such a treat to find all the eggs in and around the playground. :)  For Mother's Day, we made a DVD with pictures and video.  Now it's the beginning of June already, and I'm trying to figure out where Spring went!?! Summer came HOT and QUICK.  But, we manage to stay cool.  Here are some pictures from today's water play fun. :)  It was Caleb's first time having water play at Maggie's house!