What's Up With My Pants?!

My Pants has been rather bored lately because I have not taken the time to think up fun and educational projects for her to do. We were doing all the "normal" stuff for preschoolers, it just didn't strike her as what she wanted to do. So, that means she drives me and Pie Pie crazy while we do school.

I took some action and saw somewhere in blogland an idea for playing with sand. I remembered I had some colored cornmeal already prepped from a previous project. (It's really easy to make, just put some food coloring in a bowl with the cornmeal and stir until it is your desired color.)

She had fun making letter shapes and digging. While she was playing I read Katy and The Big Snow.

She then pretended a piece of paper was a snow plow and plowed the cornmeal.

Pants also made some fun ladybugs with her fingerprints.

I also copied some fun math games from a book (I unfortunately forgot to write the title down) that Pie Pie and Pants have both been enjoying. They especially like the little critter in Catch The Critter Game. It's a little bit of monkey and frog mixed together.

The last idea I wanted to share today was Cookie Monster Letter Bingo. We each had fun putting our cookies on the correct letter.

This post was brought to you by the letter "F",



which is for flower!

I linked this post up with Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns and Super Readers Book Club.

Coices, Choices, Choices

Vacation Bible School Season has officially begun for me! This is the time when most homeschool moms are starting to think about what they are going to do next year, but not me. I am getting ready to direct our church's V.B.S. I am so excited!

This past Saturday I attended a Workshop, especially for V.B.S. There were representatives from different publishers who each had a chance to tell us about their program. It is fun to see how much these people love V.B.S. They also make it very hard to choose because they all think that you should choose their program.

The first choice you have to make is what program you want to use. Sometimes this is easy, but most times it is not. You have to take a lot of things into consideration. For example, if the adults will like it, if the kids will like it, is it similar to the one we did last year, does it have great and catchy music, will the Bible stories relate to our kids and there is lots more. I  think about if we can physically pull off this progrm at our church and have a GREAT time while we are doing it! I  really get into prayer about it and listen to what jumps out at me and pulls at my heart. Basically which program just keeps popping back into my head! 

There are many other choices that will have to be made concerning this year's V.B.S., but I'm glad there is one decision I do not have to make. I know who is really in charge, Jesus, and I am so glad I can look to Him for wisdom and guidance as I continue on this journey!

This season of Vacation Bible School has just begun.

Come back often for updates!

Pie Pie's First Book Report

This is also a sneak peek at our Top Chef Project:

Donuts!
This book report along with a couple others will be a part of our finished project in March.

 

I want to make sure everyone can read what Pie Pie wrote so I'm going to type the summary and opinion out for you.

This book is about: a doughnut named Arnie. Arnie does not know that he is food. Mr. Bing tries to eat him. Instead of eating him they find something better for both of them.

I liked this book because in the end Arnie becomes a doughnut-dog. I like dogs. 

We really enjoyed the illustrations in this book. The pictures were very funny and there was doughnuts all over the pages. This is a fun book that will be enjoyed by everyone!

More Doughnut Fun to Come! 

P.S. I am linking up with Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns.

Flavorful Friday

It's been a while since I've done one of these! I recently made something very yummy in my slow cooker that I had to share. Actually, I guess my slow cooker made it because I wasn't home!

It's called Slow Cooker Corn Chowder with Shrimp.

I got the recipe from Natural Moms Recipes.

Ingredients:

4 cups of chicken broth

2 16 oz. bags of frozen corn

onion ( I used minced onion.)

2 carrots, diced ( I used canned carrots.)

2 potatoes, diced ( I used canned potatoes.)

salt and pepper

1 cup of water

1 pound of medium shrimp

half a cup of heavy cream

( My store was out of heavy cream, so I used light cream, still tasted good.)

Directions

1. Put all the ingredients except the shrimp and heavy cream in your slow cooker.

2. Stir the ingredients.

3. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.

4. Remove a portion of the soup to a blender and puree.

5. Pour the pureed soup back into your slow cooker.

6. Add the shrimp.

7. Cover and cook until the shrimp is pink and firm, about 10 minutes.

8. Stir in half a cup of heavy cream.

9. I promise you will enjoy this delicious soup!

As Strawberry Shortcake would say,

"It's Berry Good!".



We learned all about strawberries for our second class this session at Lighthouse Leaning Co-op. My girls love strawberries. That is the one fruit I know they will both eat! We learned a little bit about the fruit. For example, the seeds are on the outside of the fruit instead of inside.  We also colored in a picture of a strawberry.

Then everyone got a chance to taste one strawberry, or two, or however many you could get your hands on!

Pie Pie was very generous and shared her treat with her Zhu Zhu Pets!

It was Berry, Berry Fun!

P.S. I'm just wondering do you prefer the new Strawberry Shortcake (featured at the top) or are you an old school Strawberry Shortcake fan (featured below)? I discovered an even newer one that is at the bottom too! I'm still thinking about which one is my favorite.

Don't Forget It's Donut Day!

Also known as Fat Tuesday or Fasnacht Day!

Make sure you go out and get yourself a donut!

You know you want one, just admit it! The tradition is that if you eat a donut on Donut Day, you will live until the next Donut Day. What happens if you don't eat one? Just to be safe. I'll eat two, one for me and one for you!

P.S. We are doing donuts for our Top Chef Project at Lighthouse Learning Co-op. There is LOTS more donut fun coming your way courtsey of the Boo Boo Princesses!

Some Love

I know Valentine's Day is over, but I wanted to share some love with you anyway! We are pretty low key for this holiday, but my girls will use any excuse to get some goodies! The fun started on Sunday with some gifts from their Grandparents.

 On Valentine's Day Daddy and I got the girls some goodies to start off their day. Then we got to join up with our Little River Friends for a Party! We shared Valentine Cards, decorated cupcakes and got our faces painted.



We finished up our day with a delicious dinner my Mommy made for us! Tilapia with a cheesy, cream sauce and mixed vegetables! Dinner wasn't complete without Pie Pie's Favorite, a Chocolate Cream Pie!

Lots of Candy, Fun and Love!