Little Green!!

This afternoon Chance came around the corner of the house holding a caterpillar! We all held and watched "little green" for a while. We now have him in a container with lots of leaves and a little water hoping to see him change into a butterfly. Hopefully he'll stay alive long enough to change!! Here are a few pictures of "little green"!
I asked Cooper where the caterpillar was and he said "in the tree"!
Silly Sarah
Everyone looking at "little green"

Butterfly Craft

This past week we talked some about the life cycle of the butterfly. With Spring now here I thought this was a good time to talk about this. On Monday the kids made caterpillars to go along with a cute book we have called "Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer!" On Thursday we finished up our lesson on the life cycle of the butterfly by reading Dr. Seuss's "My Oh My a Butterfly" and making a couple of crafts to go along with it. We glued beans "eggs" on leaves for the caterpillar eggs, painted toilet paper rolls green for the butterfly chrysalis, and colored and cut out butterflies to go into the chrysalis (they were attached to a pipe cleaner). The kids had fun making their crafts and learning about butterflies!

First Baseball Game of the Season!

Tonight was Cade's first baseball game of the season! He played second base and had lots of fun! Cade's team is the youngest team (according to the coach) of the 6 teams in his age group! He is really enjoying the season so far and has already learned so much. He is on a team with some of his closest friends which he also loves. They were so fun to watch tonight and did a great job, especially with it being their first game. I look forward to watching them play and learn to be better players this season.
Heading to the game!

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getting a high five from the coach after his hit!

Caterpillar craft

Today the kids made caterpillars from egg cartons to go along with this cute Spring book! Chad's mom gave us this book last year I think. It's a really cute book and teaches in a very simple way the life cycle of the butterfly.

Theme-Self Portrait

This weeks theme at iheartfaces is self portrait! You can either enter a picture of yourself with a child or a picture of yourself only that you took of yourself (holding the camera) I don't have a picture of me that I took of myself with the camera but I do have one of me and Chance in the snow. I got to looking for pictures and I really don't have many pictures of me at all. I'm always the one taking pictures which leaves me with very few that I am actually in. This was taken at the beginning of March when we had our big snow! Head on over to iheartfaces and enter your picture or just check out this weeks entries!

A fun afternoon with Sarah and friends!

This afternoon we got a nice surprise visit from Sarah and her friends Stella and Clay! The kids had so much fun playing with them. They played everything from soccer, basketball, duck-duck-goose, jumping on the trampoline, to cooling off inside with a game of Wii bowling! I'm not sure who had the most fun, my kids or the "big kids"! We look forward to their next visit!

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It appears that Sarah is going to fall on her head but she actually landed on her feet! I was very impressed!

Purple Monster!

This is what happens when you let my 20 month old paint all by himself!!! He was actually doing a great job and keeping the paint on the sponges and paper until I took my attention off of him for a few minutes to clean out some of the sponges. When I turned around this is what I saw! Thank goodness for washable and non-toxic paints!!! I love the picture of him staring at his hands like "how did this happen!"

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