Colored Spaghetti

So I love to do sensory stuff with the kids, and anytime it involves the sense of touch Aria gets pretty intense about it.

We did colored spaghetti for the kids to play with. Both Parker and Terra played for a little bit, mostly stirring it with the spoons, and dumping in/out of the pots and pans, but Aria made it a full body exercise. 

At least she had fun!

Cuddlers

Just Parker and Terra cuddling in the blankets on the floor

When Kids Dress Themselves

Just so.me times when my kids dressed themselves in funny ways

Notes

Parker wrote a note to the Willman family

 It says:

Dear Wiilmins (meaning Willmans, of course)

I will miss you

A lot but I woul

d like to say

thank you.

To: Willmins

From: Parker

He explained that he was saying thank you for letting us stay at their place last summer.

And here is the "envelope" he made for it:

Play with me I love you, twice

And a note he made for me with a few stickers added for decoration:

"I would love to say I love you! as well as to have you as my mommy!!!!"

Sweet Boy!

I found out the second half means he would like to give thanks to have me as his mommy.

May 2013

Another post of random pics, the last ones came from April, these are from May.

My kids enjoy playing in our living room rug:

Different days, but both girls fell asleep at the table:

All 3 three with little mothers day gifts they made 

Goofy kid while grocery shopping:

The kids wanted some milk to drink, but asked for it in bowls, and then drank it like this:

They claimed they were being dogs

Silly kids!

Father and Sons

Back in May Jason took PArker to the Father and Sons campout and here are just a couple of pictures to show for it.

Getting ready to go

Cute boy, wearing binoculars

Hanging out with friends 

Climbing

We love going to parks when the weather is nice, and we live in an area with LOTS of parks and we just drive around and go to new parks all the time. One of our favorites though is nearby and has just one piece of equipment:

The kids LOVE climbing on this thing!

Homeschool: Plants

We had a short homeschool unit on plants and we were able to get a great deal on an annual pass to the Desert Botanical Garden so we went a few times to check out local plants

Twice a year they have a butterfly exhibit and we got to check that out a few times.

Outside the butterfly house were these goofy picture props:

Caterpillar Aria

Butterfly Parker

Butterfly Terra
"What's going on here?"

Parker and Aria

Aria checkingout a butterfly

Terra and me, watching butterflies eat

There are so many butterflies around that they will land on you sometimes

On Parker's sleeve

On Terra's hat

Here's just a random one of Aria admiring some flowers:

They have an activity set up where you can grind mesquite pods with stones

Having a snack:

One benefit of your husband getting laid off... he can come with you everywhere. So we got to go with Daddy also!

And the three kids at the gardens, with their hats that great-grandma Statler bought them when she came with us.

Random

Just a few random pictures

Aria playing a game, while wearing silk gloves and two large tutus

 Cute Terra

Aria, dressed as Snow White holding a big stick (she loves collecting sticks from anywhere and everywhere) with Parker

The kids love to play hide and seek with me in stores, and one of their favorites is Joanns

Your Good

I started teaching Parker piano, and he drew this picture of himself learning

Our piano is in our office, which explains the computer you can see behind him