Month: August 2012

  • Name and letter recognition practice

    Name and letter recognition practice

    Here’s an activity for practicing all kinds of skills. This has fine motor, cutting, writing, letter recognition skill all packed into one activity. The original has the letters to his name on the bottom of the paper. He cut the letters out and then we worked together to spell out and find the letters and…

  • Fizzy Sidewalk Paint

    Fizzy Sidewalk Paint

    Yesterday was a high of 105. So anything we were going to do outside HAD to be done before like 6am, since it was already 85 degrees by then. We didn’t make it out by 6, but pretty early in the morning. Quite a while ago {before blogging days} I had made some sidewalk paint…

  • Curious George 3rd Birthday Party

    Curious George 3rd Birthday Party

    I guess since it’s been almost 2 weeks now I should get a post up about Landon’s 3rd Curious George (aka Monkey George) birthday party. He really had two parties. One on Saturday for all his little friends and Sunday for all the family. His actual birthday was on Friday. After the weekend was over…

  • On staying at home {at least for a little while}

    *Check out my update here* Today is a strange day for me. My facebook news feed is full of updates on all my former colleague’s first day’s back at school. I’m closely watching the updates from the Kindergarten class and the wonderful teacher that took my place when I left to stay home with the…

  • Every Day Life – Busy Days and Birthdays!

    Every Day Life – Busy Days and Birthdays!

    We’ve been busy the last few days. July until September is a busy time for us. With the boy’s birthdays in back to back months the planning and prepping starts early. Landon is having a Curious George birthday party – it is one of his favorite shows he gets to watch every now and then.…

  • How to make a man with the yellow hat cake

    How to make a man with the yellow hat cake

    Landon’s Curious George Birthday party wouldn’t be complete with out a man with the yellow hat cake! I found this idea on pinterest, but it was a cake from a professional cake decorator and all they had no tutorial at all. First I started by baking 3 9×9 square cakes and one in my smallest pyrex bowl…

  • Freezer Crock Pot Recipes

    I talked here about my mass prepping of food for freezer crock pot cooking, to have easy to prepare and super low cost meals for the next few months. Here are all the recipes I pull from when I do my mass meal making. Try them out and let me know how you like them!…