Earth Day and other spring projects

Monday

Nothing like a rainy Monday to provoke a sluggish start. We stayed in our PJs a little longer than normal and watched the rain soak the patio from their window seat. They were pretending to feed each other popcorn as if they were an old married couple at the movies. Once we got moving, we cleaned up our weekend messes and shook our sillies out. We brought out all of the dress up clothes and played with them for a little bit. Then we ate our special mini cupcake snack and started painting our birdhouses.

Tuesday

Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. While we waited for the sun to come out this morning, we painted our birdhouses and talked about what birds or animals might come eat there. Tristan is convinced a tiny goose with inhabit his. And I hope one does! We took a nice walk and then came home to play in the sandbox, with bubbles, and with chalk. Their new favorite thing to do outside is talk to ants and bugs. After we were tired out from outside, we headed in for some snack and to read our book of the week, Alphabet Trucks. It's become Tristan's favorite!

Wednesday

Happy Earth Day! We have been talking about flowers and how they grow, and painting bird houses to help the birds, so I tied this in with a mini Earth Day lesson. We talked about cleaning up after ourselves (inside and out) and how to recycle things that can be used again. We even walked some cans and bottles out to our new recycling bin. We also used pipe cleaners and cheerios to make some bird and squirrel feeders. We sat and waited sort of patiently for them, but shockingly no animals came near the window with two kids yelling for them! We took a nice long walk and pointed out the different types of flowers we saw, and then played in the sandbox until nap time.

Thursday

Sometimes Thursdays are the roughest! We started out okay but then had to

make a run to Giant which was slightly chaotic. They are usually pretty good 

listeners when it comes to getting dressed, putting on shoes, and picking up their toys but today it was like pulling teeth. Getting them to the car 

was pretty easy, as was getting them in and back out and into the cool car

shopping cart that I can never steer without knocking into something took a little work, but we made it to self checkout without an issue. Then I couldn’t find my bonus card, the woman was trying to give me a free disposable bag (?) for 

Earth Day as Lily was trying to climb out of the car and Tristan attached 

himself to the woman’s leg. Whew. We came back home and considered outside time but it’s pretty windy and chilly today. Once we were inside and settled, they managed to keep themselves entertained for a little bit while I did some chores. Once fighting started to happen, we moved to our seats and ate some 

snack and got ready to do project. Today we made some spring wreaths to 

hang on our doors. I had large foam flowers and foam stickers we glued and 

stuck to a circle I cut out of cardboard. They came out pretty cute!

Friday

Alas, Friday. Yesterday was a rough one. But we made it and now we are that 

much closer to the weekend. A three day weekend for us complete with 

Sesame Street Live tonight and then the cabin until Monday. It is very much 

needed! Today was a free play kind of day. We sang some songs and did our 

exercises after breakfast. We played with some toys we haven’t seen in a while. 

We even tried to watch a new TV show or two, just to switch things up. For our 

project, we began to paint clay flower pots for some cute Mother’s Day gifts we 

will be mass producing! Hopefully the rest of the day will go on pretty smoothly 

and we can get the weekend started!

Have a good one everybody! I am going to attempt to get a chunk of wedding related things situated and hopefully one of those things will include a blog update for all of you who are on the edge of your seats! :)