Happy Monday!

We had a busy day today. The day started out with Lyric and I doing the breakfast dishes. I had Cadence strapped in her chair next to us and I look over and see this: The little Houdini decided she needed to climb out of the chair and attempt to get on the cabinet! The girls and I made advent calendars today. They have started asking when Santa is coming, so I decided we needed a way to count it down or I was going to go crazy! I found this one at Kaboose. Lyric isn't usually much on coloring, but she stuck with this.

Cadence did a little coloring, but she really enjoyed throwing the crayons in the floor. I helped her with the leaves a little:-)

Story Bell had fun making her Santa (yes, she was naked).

She even cut it out.

So proud!

Cadence found one of the girls ink pads for their stamps. She was very unhappy when I took it away.

This is what a Cadence tantrum looks like:She sticks her hinney in the air and lays her head on the floor while crying like it is the end of the world. A close up of the ink hands:We haven't had a muffin tin in a while, so we decided to have one today. For the big girls from left to right: fish sticks, ketchup, ketchup, fish sticks, corn, bread, bread, corn, peaches, chocolate pudding, chocolate pudding, peaches

For Cadence from left to right: fish sticks, bread, fish sticks, corn, peaches, corn. I am sure you noticed the stocking shaped bread. It is December, so you know I had to bust out the Christmas cookie cutters!

Busy Monday!

The girls and I had a very busy day today. Lyric started back to Spanish class today at 9:00. She did well. I was actually surprised how much she remembered because we didn't do much Spanish practice this Summer.

After Spanish we came home and had a snack. We had a play date at 11:00. We discussed the letter A and started a letter A lapbook. I plan to finish this one. We have tendency to start lapbooks around here and never finish them... I will keep you updated on our progress.

Cadence had a good time at the play date. She mostly crawled around, but she did take a few steps here and there. I think we can almost call her a walker.

The girls marked the letter A with dots. Lyric doesn't look like she enjoyed it, but she was having fun (I promise)!

After working on the letter A the kiddos used their fingerprints to make ants, too cute! Miss Jenn read them all a book while they snacked on animal crackers and apples. It was a very fun and productive play date!

We looked up some other ideas for our lapbook. We plan to add a mini book on our address, and we want to make an apple pie and include the recipe and maybe some sequencing cards on the order of the recipe. We also brainstormed: ambulance (maybe practice 911), airplane, astronaut, and avocado-- not sure what we could include with those... maybe just some pictures of 'A' words.

When we got home from the play date the little girls were sleeping, so Lyric and I had some lunch. She got a new Zootles magazine in the mail today, so we read all about Pandas. There were a few websites in the magazine with live web cams, so of course we had to get on the computer and watch some pandas. Lyric really liked watching them live, but she didn't really like that they didn't have sound. The Atlanta Zoo site has video, some with sound, of their pandas. We watched the birth of a panda which was awesome! This is probably too much information, but I swear I made noises very similar to that panda when I had Cadence!

On the Smithsonian National Zoological Park site we found an online panda jigsaw puzzle. Lyric attempted it by herself and got very frustrated with it, but when we did it together she really liked it. We then decided to print out a panda coloring sheet from their site and she made her own jigsaw puzzle with it.

She then decided to read some TumbleBooks on Daddy's computer while I worked (played) on mine. Story woke up and decided to watch Arthur while having her lunch. All of this happened by 3:30!

The afternoon was just spent in our normal way: laundry (yes, still Story's favorite), the girls playing and basically just hanging out.

This evening Lyric decided she wanted Daddy to take her training wheels off her bike. They tried bending them up because we heard that is a good way to teach them, but Devon couldn't really get them to bend, so they just took them off. I don't know if she is ready yet. She kept insisting for Devon to let go despite the fact that she was leaning sideways. When he wouldn't let go she would get mad at him. She did pretty good though, I think. We will just have to keep practicing. She may not have ridden by herself, but she did make Daddy realize how out of shape he has gotten these last few weeks!

Well, that was our Monday. Hopefully our Tuesday won't be quite so busy. We are planning on going to the bilingual story time at 10:30, who knows where else the day will lead us?