Somewhere Fun Friday

This past Friday, we snuck away from our neck of the wood to enjoy a dessert date with my grandparents…B & A’s ‘Minnesota Mimi & Grandpa’.

B enjoyed exploring Mimi & Grandpa’s home as he found little toys and trinkets to play with and even found train and trolley books to flip through!

They graciously had the table set and ready for out little guy…complete with tasty treats and a miniature tea set.

After finding his place, B dug into some red and orange Jello…he giggled as it slipped between his little fingers.

Mimi set B’s spot on a cookie sheet, this allowed him to pour his very own tea (water) into his own tea cup(which he paid for with a pretend nickel). I am not sure who ‘drank’ more tea…B or the cookie sheet…but all that matters is he had a fantastic time, pouring and then asking for more!

I forgot to snap a photo of little A enjoying her Cheerios alongside B’s snacks. She dropped quite a few of her treats, which led to pulling out the vacuum to clean up the floor. As we all know, B was quick to offer up some of his vacuuming skills as he helped to clean up little A’s mess.

As we finished dessert, we heard a train at the nearby street crossing…this signaled all us us to jump up and head towards the window.  What perfect dessert entertainment as B was able to see the train roll through Mimi & Grandpa’s backyard.

After B’s tummy was full with treats and shirt & pants covered with ‘tea’ we retired into the living room for a little bit of entertainment. 

Mimi got out her kid-friendly harp and both B and A got to touch and ‘play’ the little wooden instrument. Mimi even told one of her famous make believe stories to the kiddos…they were both quite impressed.

Mimi & Grandpa, thank you for such a nice visit…it was a special way to spend our fun Friday!

Be blessed.

Where has the Week Gone?

This week’s activities have all gotten ‘smooshed’ together as it feels like the week has sort of gotten away from us.

Monday was a day filled with errands so we we got a little late start on making our mess and didn’t start till Tuesday.

Our messy activity this week was making bird feeders out of bread slices, peanut butter, bird seed, ribbon and clothes pins. I wish I had photos of the bird feeders we hung…but shortly after hanging, the squirrels discovered our treats leaving nothing but the clothes pin and ribbon to photograph.  B spread some peanut butter onto a piece of bread and then sprinkled/dumped bird seed onto the butter like glitter. We pinched the top of the bread with a wooden clothes pin and then used the ribbon to hang the clothes pin from a tree branch (thinking the clothespin might  better allow us to add bread later on in the week).

On Tuesday, along with making our ‘Monday Mess’, we took time to read this book (in honor of our recent snow accumulation)…

(image taken from www.strangerwinthewoods.com)

This was one of my favorite classroom books…the illustrations are photographs and they are fantastic!

For ‘What’s Cooking Wednesday’ we made reindeer pasta for lunch (thank you to IKEA for providing this tasty and creative treat).

I am still trying to think of something ‘thoughtful’ that might go with this little Stranger in the Woods theme we have going for tomorrow and had hoped our ‘something FUN Friday’  would be making our own snowman in the backyard. After learning that the forecast for the end of the week hovers above 40 degrees I decided not to take my chances and wait for Friday incase the snow melts.

After eating our pasta, we bundled up, headed outside and rolled snow balls together to make our own snowman. Even Little A enjoyed the snow from the comfort of her saucer…

Ella took interest in the snow man as soon as food was introduced into the equation (blueberries for eyes & a carrot for a nose)…

It wasn’t long before Little A started to squawk from her saucer…we took that as her asking to join in on the fun…

Here is our finished product!

I doubt there will be too many deer sampling our little man’s nose…but maybe some birds who are missing the feeders that the squirrels ate?! Who knows maybe that will be our ‘Thoughtful Thursday’ activity…feeding the birds?

Enjoy the week.

Be blessed.

Something FUN Friday

Since I am still getting ‘nursed’ back to health and B is donning an annoying ‘green’ nose we decided to stay in for our something FUN day today.

While little A was down for her morning nap, B played in the sink. The fun started with washing some dishes and escalated from there as is evidenced by these photos…

About a half hour into fun, B asked if he could take his wet shirt off…I had no idea that would turn into a somewhat bath-like activity as he quite literally dunked his hair in the water and swung his head upwards in a ‘little mermaid-like’ way…the smile that resulted went from ear to ear!

After some shivers set in, he said good bye to the sink and hello to a cozy towel and dry clothes.

Evidence of all the FUN!

Happy Friday…have FUN!

Be blessed.