Westley's Birthday

We celebrated Westley's 5th birthday this weekend at the beach campground. The weather was too cold for playing in the sand and water but the kids had a great time playing in the campsite.
Westley got a lot of games that we immediately started to enjoy.

Today we celebrated with our playgroup friends at the park. They enjoyed playing with Westley's stomp rocket and ring toss, and I did parachute time with them which was a hit.
no photos from today though... I was too busy

Happy Birthday to my big 5 year old boy! 

I love you!

Boxed Cookies for Teachers

Westley and Will both had 3 classroom teachers, plus additional interns in their preschool classes. I was trying to think of something to give them, and I wanted the boys to be a part of it but I know there is no way I could get them to make a ton of cards.
This worked perfect.
I had some white nice packaging boxes, so I had the boys draw on them. Usually neither are much into drawing and coloring, but the loved doing so on the boxes. They spent over a half hour coloring them.
Then we made Aunt Cheryl's famous oatmeal raisin cookies to go inside.
They turned out real cute and were well received!

Private Hullabaloo Concert

Angelina's 2nd Birthday party featured local children's singing artist Hullaballo.
We have seen him sing twice before but in busier settings, so this was perfect for the children to get up close, into the music and get dancing!

Thank you Angelina for inviting us to both parties!!  :)

Tumble Gym Bus

Angelina's birthday party #1
We were invited to cousin Angelina's birthday parties!
The first party included a Tumble Gym Bus.
The bus has been converted into a mini gym for kids.
While it could get a bit tight in there, all the kids (and uncle Fred) were loving it!

Building with Major

I just love this picture of the two with an intense focus on building :)

Ice and Water

This easy science experiment has been going on for about 3 days.
Westley was interested in freezing water, so I gave him a freezer quality zip lock bag with some water in it. I put his name on it, and then made one for Will with his name on it.
They have gone back and forth from putting them in the freezer to freeze, then leaving them out on the counter to melt.
We are practicing the cognitive concept of reversibility, and written name recognition  :)

Recycled Robot

The boys and I made a Robot out of paper towel rolls  and shoe boxes I had saved up.
I was proud of my idea to use bowls as feet which helped him be sturdy :)
This was really fun!