I is for ice

I made ice balls for Hannah and Ethan to start off the letter I.  Actually, I have had them ready for awhile just waiting for a warm sunny day.  So on Tuesday when the weather looked nice, I took the opportunity knowing I had better act quick.  At that point, I had not even presented the letter I box.  Good thing too since it has rained everyday since.  I put an animal who lives in cold icy climates in each balloon and then filled water and off to the freezer they went. 

Frozen ice ball ready to "unwrap".

They looked really neat, this is the polar bear ball.

Orca whale.

Hannah insisted that they needed their gloves.

Yes Ethan it is cold.

Be careful ice balls dropped on toes hurt.

Way to go Destructo,  Ethan enjoyed hammering.

Eventually, we put the ice balls in warm water.

She kept the gloves on the entire time.

A walrus.

H is for Huge House part 1

So this is the big project I have been working on (Andrew did the actual cutting, I'm not allowed to play with knives).  By big I mean in size.  When I brought it out and told Hannah she was going to paint it her eyes went equally as big.  This is the first part of the project.  Today we painted it.  When I saw the weather I knew it needed to be soon.  Once it starts raining here it may be awhile before it stops (I'm not complaining I like the rain.).  But we were not going to paint it inside so it needed to be done.

Right not it is a huge cardboard shaped house.  I figured it would be easier to paint before I cut out windows and doors.

Having never painted on such a huge surface it was fun to watch Hannah .

Everyone helped, some bailed early to cuddle on the couch.

Hannah is painting a bird in a nest.

Look at those hands!!!

An artist at work.

She knew she could paint everywhere but really she painted the same 2 places over and over.

I really liked painting outside, aside from the fast cleanup it was also very relaxing.

Stay tuned for part 2: Doors and Windows.

H is Home, Hot, and Happy

As we worked are way through our H activities today, we had extra fun because Daddy joined us.  I had everything ready for Hannah after her nap on the kitchen table. She came downstairs and a few minutes later meandered into the kitchen.  Not long after, Andrew called me into the kitchen too.  Hannah very patiently sat at the kitchen table waiting for me to come in so she could start her activities. 

Hot and Cold

This is a fun activity. Each cup had some water in it, ranging from ice cold to hot (not scalding) and everything in between.  We dipped our fingers in to see which cups were warmer and colder.  She did very well and really enjoyed dipping her fingers in and feeling water temperature different from cup to cup.

The cup on the left has the very hot water and the cup on the right has ice water. 

She needed to hold it herself.

If the cup was deemed cold enough, she drank it.

The "undrinkable" water with poured back and forth between cups.

Next, we did a simple house craft.

I love that there is a window on the chimney.

 Next, we sorted happy and sad faces into the appropriate basket.  I chose this activity after seeing it on The Princess and the Tot and because Hannah has a fascination for looking at other people expressions in pictures.

 I labeled two baskets with either happy or sad and then cut our pictures from magazines for her to sort.

Her facial expressions mimicked whatever she saw in the pictures.

Happy

She had a harder time with sad pictures, (mostly from the range of sad expressions).  The Happy pictures were easy.

Sad

 Afterwards, we had lots of time to go down to the creek and play.

Playing with sticks (no eyes were injured).

Stay tuned for surprise activity for the letter H.  It is almost ready.

Letter G wrap up

I can't believe we finished.  We did quite a few different things for the letter G, I think all of us (including Ethan) enjoyed the activities.  It was a lot of fun seeing Ethan get involved and playing with Hannah and I.  G took extra long but thats okay, I really am looking forward to Letter H.  Here is a look back at G:

Letter G Box

Ethan getting right into it.

We did tow types of play dough fun.  Both super easy to set up and a blast for my play dough loving girl.

Gardening play dough.

Hannah also played with the g cookie cutter.

We had a great lunch with GG

We sponge stamped grapes.

We collaged the letter G.

We matched colored pom poms to the matching colored goat. (The goat printable is from Tot school printables).

Hannah and Ethan enjoyed the green sensory salad.

 Finally, yesterday we concluded with a game of golf.  I found this set at the dollar store (yeah).  I also took some plastic cups leftover from the last birthday party and staked them down with tent pegs.  Then we tried to knock the balls into the cups.

Getting ready for his tee time.

Hannah was Ethan's Caddy.

Go Hannah.

They may have confused golf and hockey.

Hole in one.

Onto the letter H.

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The calm before the storm.

I'm not going to lie.  The last 2 days have been hard.  Andrew is away and I have had bad headaches.  In an effort to run off the abundance of energy and to dissipate the noise they make, we have spent a lot of time outside.  Thankfully, the weather has been great.  Never-the-less, I have been struggling.  Its moments like these that I keep two thoughts very close by.  First, that my strength is not enough and only God alone can hold me up.  Secondly, I am unable to comprehend families who have spouses that work away or overnight.  Here is a little of what we did yesterday.

We played.

Ethan added to our chalk drawings (and the he wrote on my chair, the mat, the house.  Don't have a clue what I was doing).

Looks like an a, my budding genius.

Hannah played in the pool.

We made lots of food out of sand.  (Hannah especially likes to make ice cream, cookies, and pancakes).

Ethan helped too.

This boy would sleep in this car if I let him.

We painted with water at Hannah's request.

Ethan "helped".

Only a 2 year old paints like this.

Mommy played paparazzi.

It ended when Ethan got rough. (Joking, he is spraying her with water).

Then I remembered it was Friday.  Here is Hannah's second drawing.

Lines and a brush.