Happy Babies!

I highly recommend this game!  The kids love it, AND it's a good workout!

Playing the Wii

 Baby Lane is VERY proud of herself!  She has been trying for weeks to climb in the toy basket all by herself and she finally did it!

Baby Rylee chillin' in her bed!  She even had her little bare feet crossed!

Ice Cube Painting

 Put paint in an ice cube tray.  Cover it with foil and then poke popsicle sticks in each cube space.  Let freeze for 24 hours.  Make sure to take them out of the freezer about 5 minutes before the kids use them.

Slime

 

This stuff is so cool!  It melts in your hands, but it also feels hard to the touch!  GREAT for sensory!

Recipe for Slime:

1 16oz. box of cornstarch
1 1/2 cups water
food coloring

In a large bowl put in cornstarch.  I add the coloring to the water and then dump it in.  You have to knead it to get it to mix together.  It has such a weird texture, but the kids love it!

Snow Cones

"Magic Snow"

More Spaghetti, I Say!

Baby Lane LOVES Spaghetti!

Rylee is wrapped up like a burrito!  She starts at one end of the blanket and holds onto it and rolls and rolls!  It's hilarious to watch!

Trying to figure out how to get the toys out of the box!

Winter Fun

Pajamas, Popcorn, Presents, and Polar Express

Our Last Day Before Christmas Break

Rylee and Lane in their jammies

Making popcorn

Opening Presents

Gingerbread Day

Gingerbread Day

 Gingerbread Tracing

 Gingerbread Puzzle

 Gingerbread Letter Matching

 Gg or Other Letters
(Notice the cute little dress Reegan wore for gingerbread day)

Making Gingerbread Cookies

These activites came from

http://www.thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com/

Handprint in salt dough

Could she possibly be any cuter?

Green Gak!

Recipe for Gak:

1 cup glue
1 cup liquid starch
food coloring

Mix together in a bowl.  There will look like there is a lot of extra liquid.  Knead the mixture with your hand and the liquid will eventally soak in.

Playing in the snow!

The Elf on the Shelf

 We had a special visitor on December 1st.  It's the Elf on the Shelf!  Nicholas gave him a name....Gilbert.  He was hired by Santa to watch you all day long and then at night he flies back to the North Pole to give Santa a report!  He is a great listener but he is under strict orders never to talk.  His only rule is that he can not be touched or he will lose his Christmas magic!  Each day he hides in a different place.  These are some of the places that we have found him:

Five Little Cookies

Five little cookies sitting on a plate,

Waiting for Santa, he was running late.

Along came a reindeer and guess what he ate?

CRUNCH

(Countdown cookies until you empty the plate!)

Christmas Cookies

Making Christmas Cookies

 Luke is a professional at cutting out cookies!

 This is the table all set up for them to frost and sprinkle as much as they want!  Imagine being three years old and seeing this.......HEAVEN!

 They LOVED decorating their cookies!  It kept them busy for an hour!  You would think there would be a huge mess, but it wasn't.  There was nothing on the floor, believe it or not! 

The finished product!