Music Noise to My Ears

a favorite past time around here is digging out the pots and pans, begging for a spoon, and making some seriously loud music noise!

but actually getting in the drawer was a first! i guess it made things a bit more accessible!

its a whole different volume of music noise when big sister Addie joins in the fun!

and while i wouldn't trade these moments for anything...

...i'll certainly take a bottle of advil!

Serious Play Dough Fun

Addie has been playing with play dough for a while now, most recently making animal footprints in it. we've managed to keep it out of the carpets, mostly off of the floor and out of her mouth!

but the little girls are getting to experience play dough much earlier because of their big sister.

and they are serious about their play dough time!

serious about spooning it

and digging it!

serious about flattening it out.

and dumping it!

really, no matter how you look at it; these girls are serious about their play dough!

Wordless Wednesday

Black and Blue

I vaguely remember commenting to Addie's pediatrician at her 2 year old check up (or sometime in there) how banged up and bruised her little shins and arms and head stayed! her pediatrician's response: she worries far more about the kids with no bruises than the ones with them (within reason of course!) because she knows they are actually outside playing!!!

but when its multiplied by two, it seems at bit more extreme!

there is climbing and running and tripping and falling. there are collisions and intentions and accidents and on-purpose-ohs!

i think i could pad every corner, every piece of furniture, every hard surface, and these girls would still find a way to bruise their sweet little heads and faces and eyes and lips!

audrey kate climbed on the sit-and-spin and fell off only to have her eye land on a wooden toy. mere hours later, she caught her shoe on the soft floor at chick-fil-a and her poor forehead collided with a bench!

last night as i was attempting to fold laundry, the girls were dancing and playing only feet away from me. i hear a thud and realize poor anne perry's head has landed on the edge of the living room chair.

it has not been a good week for our black and blue littles! i'm counting on this week to be much less active!

Brrrrrr!

I don't think we could have any more unpredictable weather right now. It was 34 degrees last wednesday and yesterday it was 74! Crazy.

But with all of this cold random weather, we've been talking a lot about snow around here. Which led us to a few activities we've been doing. The focus? The arctic/antarctic/polar regions of course!

And if Addie doesn't ask me once, she asks me at least a dozen times a day...what can we do?

We made animal tracks with white paint and miniature animals and talked about predators and prey. The little girls had fun, but Addie loved it; and hers actually looked like animal prints! ;)

 

We made polar bears with torn paper.

A little more challenging across the board than I imagined. Addie wanted to tear the paper into itsy bitsy teeny weeny pieces and the little girls wanted to glue stick e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g! But we managed quite well.

And after the little girls went down for naps, Addie and I did a little experiment. We filled our deep sink up with cold water, ice and some salt. The temperature? Cold. (like my scientific estimation there?). Then we talked about what we knew: the water was cold. polar bears have to find food in cold water. therefore they must have something to keep them warm. What we wanted to find out? What keeps them warm and how!

What would that be? Why crisco blubber of course! It was a bit hard to explain, the whole concept of fat and all, but i think she grasped it to some degree.

So we stuck our bare hands in the cold water. Cold! Freezing!

Then we stuck our bare hands in a single plastic bag. Just as cold (freezing!)!

And then we used the blubber bag (crisco in between two ziplock bags taped together at the top).

Surprisingly not cold!

In fact, it was a bit toasty in there initially! I had some serious doubts about this experiment; but it worked, and Addie loved it!

Since we probably won't be seeing snow around here anytime soon, i'm going to order some of this Snow! Addie's most recent request was to learn about clouds. Snow. Clouds. Perfect segue to weather! Love learning with this girl!

Horsin' Around