And the Doorbell Rang!

B has taken to some of the books I used to enjoy reading with the kiddos in my classroom.

One of our recent favorites is The Doorbell Rang by, Pat Hutchins.  http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/doorbellrang.html

I have no idea why B took to this book more than others but he has it memorized…beginning to end.

So in honor of the book and never being one to turn down a chance to bake and always being one to want to reinforce a good story…we baked cookies!

B helped me add the ingredients and watched the mixer mix…

While Little A kept the most important ingredients, the chocolate chips and sugar, safe and in the comfort of her high chair.

B made sure to taste the cookies after they were cool.  Believe it or not, he seemed to like them, though our doorbell didn’t ring as a result of neighbors seeking out yummy cookies! I guess that means we need to get to know our neighbors better…and maybe ring their doorbells to share our cookies!

Be blessed.

‘Tomb’ Breakfast

aka Resurrection Rolls

On Easter morning, in effort to try to make the Resurrection Story a little more tangible/understandable we rolled marshmallows into croissant rolls. 

Why?  We pretended that Jesus’ body was the marshmallow and the tomb was the croissant roll.

After the rolls (or tombs as B referred to them) came out of the oven, we discovered that they were empty!  Just like the tomb was on Easter morning!

The ‘tomb rolls’ proved tastier than anticipated and provided a tangible example of the miracle that transpired on that Glorious Day!

Happy Easter.

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.