'F' is for Footprints

What Fun!  The letter 'F' was celebrated today by making Footprints on our back porch.  Luckily it was a warm day so we could splash and play in the water and make footprints and watch them fade just as quickly. Then we traced our Feet with chalk.

I baked us some French Fries and cut up Fruit for part of our lunch.  We did a Fingerprint 'F' for our book.

And Kaia really enjoyed making her Foil Fish!  She even played with it throughout the day.

Good Morning, ready for Letter of the Day -'E'?

I guess Kaia is super into our Letter of the Day now.  I wasn't really planning on doing it during the weekends just because we usually have other things to keep us occupied.  However, at around 7am today (Saturday) I woke up to: "Mommy...lets do letter E now!"  So we stumbled downstairs still sleepy and after waking up a bit we started the Letter of the Day with an Egg hunt!

I've learned that Egg hunts are fun all year round when your a toddler/preschooler.  We pull them out every once in awhile until I get tired of having random eggs all over our house.  Then I pick them up and hide them away in the closet for another day.

We also got some great Exercise that day by going to a park and having a picnic. 

Finally we created a hand print Elephant that Evening for a fun craft.

'D' is for Doughnuts!

Ok.. so it kind of seems like the letter of the day is becoming about junk food, but I couldn't pass up getting a treat like this.  I think Kaia's only had a bite or two of doughnuts before so it was so fun having her pick out her very own and seeing her reaction.  She picked a chocolate frosted one with sprinkles.

I think this picture says it all:

So after having our brunch we had to burn off that sugar high by having a Dance party!  She chose Storybots songs -I guess to go along with our alphabet theme.  We also played with barbie Dolls, and played with our Dog.  

And to finish the night pasted Diamonds into a 'D' shape for her book.

'C' is for Cupcakes

Today is brought to you by the the letter 'C'!  So we had to Cook, but I couldn't decide between Cookies or Cupcakes.  Since we make cookies more often I decided on Cupcakes.  Kaia picked yellow Cake mix and yellow Color for the frosting.  I let her decorate them with Colored sugar, Chocolate Chips and graham Cracker goldfish.  Lots of delicious messy fun. :)

Our beautiful creations... ^_-

Besides eating the cupcakes, we had Cheese & Crackers & Carrots for lunch.  

After nap time we Colored with Crayons and raced our Cars down the driveway.

Now...what to do with all these extra cupcakes!??

'B' is for Butterfly

The Letter of the Day today is 'B'!  And how can you do the letter B without something to do with butterflies when you have a little girl?!  So I found a fun simple craft I knew she would love- a "Butterfly Wand" from Enchanted Learning.  Click here if you want to learn how to make one.

We had Banana's for Breakfast, and then went to the library for new Books! (Where she also played with a Boy).  Later we played with Blocks, Balloons and of course a kids ultimate toy- a cardboard Box!

Letter of the Day!

It has been awhile, but the new little series of activities I've come up with for Kaia has inspired me to blog again!  Nearing 3 years old, she can do so much more and we're having fun!

I decided to do a "Letter of the Day" with her since she LOVES the alphabet right now.  We try to "Create" "Eat" and "Play" with each letter.

I got her excited about letter 'A' one day by decorating and folding paper airplanes.  We raced them down the stairs and across the room.  She LOVED it.

We baked cinnamon apples for a snack, which I actually think I enjoyed more than her!

And later we thought up and played like animals - especially ones beginning with 'A'!  -Alligators, Anteaters and Antelope.

Finally we document it in her own letter book.

By the end of the day I had her hooked! :)

A Very Minnie Birthday!

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, Grandma & Grandpa were in town and our sweet Dimples turned 2!  So we've been pretty busy.

Since Dimples has been into Minnie Mouse lately, we did a Minnie-themed birthday party.  It was so fun!  I really got into the theme using pink and black.  Here are some fun pictures from her party:

Hard to see but I made a banner that says Happy Birthday with Minnie and Daisy cutouts on either side.

I also tied pink polka dot ribbon around black silverware and we had black plates and pink napkins.

And for the most fun, we had Minnie cupcakes!  I used sculptable frosting and made bows, then used mini oreos for the ears.  So fun!

She also got several Minnie dolls and outfits as gifts, which just was so fun seeing her reaction to her favorite character right now.  It was a very fun day!  She and her cousins were playing with the pink balloons for a good part of the afternoon.  They got pretty creative, putting them all in her new play tunnel and she'd push them out as she climbed through.  She thought this game was super fun!  So balloon play has been a focus the last few days.  I like that its something that can be active play inside without worrying about being too destructive.  Throw them up in the air, kick them all around, use static electricity and stick them to walls, draw faces on them with markers and make them puppets, bop each other with them.. so many things to do with balloons.