Chickadee

G and E got some fun favors at the bday parties from this weekend. One of the things in the Farm party favor bag was an Easter egg in the shape of a chick. Gianna is OBSESSED. I have found it filled with various objects all around the house, and whenever she has a snack, she wants to keep it inside her little egg.

Here it has Mardi Gras beads inside.

The little things in life, right? Wish I were a kid again.

Birthday X 2!

This Saturday, we had 2 birthday parties to go to. They were very different, but both REALLY fun! I didn't bring my camera for the first one. The first one was for Isabella, one of my new teacher friend's daughters. It was at Pump it up Frisco. I honestly don't know who had more fun, the girls or Chris. Adults are allowed to jump on all the blow up structures so he was in on the action from the start. Gianna and Elia ran around and climbed and jumped and generally ran themselves ragged.

Exhausted, both of them!

The second birthday party was for James and Aiana, one of my pta friend's kiddos. I got pictures of this party, and I am so glad I did! She is homeschooling little James, and right now they are working on a farm unit, so that was the theme of the party. When she went to buy stuff for her unit on the farm, she went to a feed store and her kiddos fell in love with these baby ducks. So now she is raising baby ducks, and it fits right into her theme. Gianna and Elia loved to watch them, and they were pretty cute.

She had a few activities set up for the kiddos.

Getting pigs dirty, then washing them and then drying them:

Hauling and planting "flowers":

And of course, birthday cake and cupcakes. So cute!

These parties gave me a lot of ideas for the girls birthday next month. So far, all I can tell you is its going to be Minnie Mouse themed. Elia (and G) will love it!

Farm Field Trip

This morning we went to this farm since we have been learning about farms during preschool play-dates. I dressed them in overalls, which I thought was very fitting!

It started out with a feeding frenzy with the goats. Elia wanted to feed them but sort of freaked out when the goats started licking her hands. G wasn't too keen on them licking her hands either, so she resorted to just feeding them straight out of the cup.

Then we went on a hayride and later a barrel ride. Elia sat in the barrel seat but didn't go for the ride. All in all, I think they had a great morning!

Down on the Farm

This week was my week to teach the little preschoolers about farms. It was SO fun. Every time I teach it makes me a little more excited to start teaching again. Some of the fun things we did were:

Take animal cookies and roll them around in "mud" (chocolate pudding)

Make butter from whipping cream by shaking it around with a marble in a tupperware container.

Make paper bag pig puppets.

Read. I got so many books in the library, I could have just read to them the full 2 hours. I read a book called Punk Farm about a bunch of farm animal getting together and making music. We all put sunglasses on while I read it to them. So fun!

My original plan was to go back to work Fall of 2011, but it looks like I may take on a long term sub position in February. More on that later. In the meantime, I will have fun teaching these preschoolers once a month and of course my own babies at home!