Week 54: We are having more alphabet fun! Ed accidentally left for work on Monday with both of our car seats...so Monday was a stay at home and relax kind of day! We were able to get an early start on our E-day activities! We made Edible Bracelets with twizzlers and fruit loops, we made Bouncy Eggs and then we made a Diet Coke Eruption!
The kids put their eggs in vinegar which ate away the hard shell. We were left we a soft egg, which looks a lot like a bouncy ball - let me make this very clear, it is not like a bouncy ball! We had egg everywhere! Still, it was a very neat experiment and the kids loved watching the eggs fizz!
Tuesday was such a HOT day! We decided to beat the heat at the Splash Pad! The kids love the water and the playground. To be honest, we didn't last that long - it is hard to play when the slide burns your bottom through your clothes! Even with burning bottoms, we had fun.
After a fun morning in the sun and water, we had lunch at Chick-fil-a, ran a few errands, and then it was time for Snow Balls (or new favorite treats)!
Wednesday we tried a recipe that we found on Pinterest, Pancake Muffins! The kids loved making their own breakfast and they actually tasted really good! I didn't have to ask them to eat their breakfast over and over again...a win-win situation! (Maybe they could make their own breakfast every morning???)
Then it was time for swimming at our friend Mrs. Olivia's house. I wish I had taken pictures, but we were having too much fun in the pool! The kids love her little boy Jack - John Bay doesn't know what to do with someone younger than him, he is used to being the youngest. While swimming, they ate popsicles in the pool - this is their new favorite swimming activity! Who doesn't love to swim and to eat popsicles...and why not do it at the same time, where there is no mess! After a much needed afternoon rest, we worked on our F-Day activities! We made Fingerprint hearts out of clay and some yummy fudgy buttons for snack! I need to put that recipe away for later - what a perfect mix of chocolate and peanut butter! One other F-Day activity we tried was making a flag out of our footprints! We are using this as part of a Father's Day surprise for Ed and for the Forth of July (don't you love how I tied all of those F's in!) We were a little slow to finish F-day activities and we are still trying to finish all of the activities...I guess I will have to work them in later...maybe a review day?
Thursday brought on a much needed day of Bible Study and lunch with friends. I know I have mentioned it before, but I LOVE the study we are doing on "Resolution for Women". It is amazing and I am having a great time getting to know some wonderful women! We topped off the morning with lunch and then the kids begged for more snow cones...who was I to say no!
We finished out the week with G-day activities. Friday we worked on making God's Eyes (they were not really old enough to do this yet, atleast not if you want them to look right), we decorated flower pots so that we could grow grass, and we made gramwich snacks! The gramwiches were a hit - graham crackers with cookie dough ice cream! The grass growing will be a hit - when it starts growing...and then it was time for horseback! Too bad I couldn't tie in H-day! MV did excellent as always. She rode Bailey again, and according to Miss Arial, this was her best lesson ever! She is working on her 2-point and as soon as she can hold it around the whole arena, she may start to canter...not sure I like that part. Maybe she can canter on Bailey (which is just a normal trot for most horses, Bailey is a little slow)!
We had such a fun weekend - we had friends come up to cookout on Saturday. The kids played in the yard and jumped on the trampoline so that the "grown-ups" could visit and play with Baby Turner! Both kids crashed hard after everyone left, I wish we could do that every weekend! On Sunday, we worked on the much needed backyard project of the fence! If you have forgotten, our fence falls every time the wind blows. The realtors (or homeowners) never want to fix it and don't like to return phone calls...anyway, they finally agreed (after lots of begging) to let us take a little off the rent to buy the supplies to fix the fence - but we have to fix it ourselves. I must say, Ed and Mr. Walter did an outstanding job! Phase 1 is complete and I can't wait to see rest of the fence (next weekend)!
Not too bad for a few hours work on a Sunday afternoon (and free labor)!
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