Monday, February 13, 2012

N Week

Tracing an N on the magnadoodle. 

Driving our cars on the N road.
 N is for night night, so that's exactly what J was pretending to do. 
 N is for numbers, so we did a lot of number activities including reading this awesome number book.


 Necklaces!
 More number books
 N is for nails, so we practiced hammering in some nails. 
 N is for names.  We are now able to recognize our name when we see it written.
 Nesting blocks. 
 Nature walk, or rather a nature sit. 
 Nine!
 N is for Noah's Ark.  After reading about it, we made a boat and gathered some animals. 
 N is for nurse.
 Noodle fun


 A noodle N.
 Someone was extremely tired on the drive home that afternoon.
 Beating on our drum and reviewing our numbers as they lit up on the top of the drum.
 N is for neigh.
 N is for nest, so we made nests for each of the little birds.  We also watched some videos of a mommy bird feeding the baby birds. 
 N is for Nana, Tater's Nana.  He loved showing the girls a picture of his Nana.
 N is for noisemaker.  Letting them play with this seemed like a good idea.  :)
 Nursery Rhymes. 
 N is for nose.  We did a smelling test and smelled a bunch of different things. 
 It rained that day and they loved listening to the rain coming down.
 Playing a number game together.

My Little Chef

Tater loves to help in the kitchen so when he heard that Gramma and Papa were going to make some goodies while he was visiting, he just had to be involved. 

Sharing marshmellows with Gramma.



Helping papa use the measuring cup. 

Don't you just love his little apron?  It used to be Aunt Beth's when she was little. 

I love my little chef. 

Art Museum

A few weekends ago, we went to a local art museum to take advantage of their free family weekend program. 

Daddy and Tater working on a puppet. 

Two of the McGirls and Uncle Chris went with us. 

They had a kid play area that Tater enjoyed. 




Daddy and Tater's puppet. 


Drawing together. 


Checking out some of the paintings with Daddy.
 Walking out with the McGirls. 

Naleigh Moon

Just too sweet not to share! 

January 30-February 12

January 30:  I love this boy. 

 January 30:  The VBK boys are cooking dinner tonight. 
 January 31:  Know the mother from the book Love You Forever? That was me tonight.

January 31:  Working on his fine motor skills with noodles, a muffin pan, a cup, and a strainer.
 February 1:  Look what we saw at the park.
 February 2:  Tater's second birthday is just a month and a half away and I have no idea what we are going to do for it. :(

February 2: 
Gotta love a park visit on the way home from work.
 February 3:  Playdate at the park with Sydney.
 February 3:  Sydney taught Tater how to swing on his belly.
 February 3:  Tater's new fashion statement. Rain boots over your pajamas.
 February 3:  Wearing Mommy's shoes around the house. :)
 February 4:  Working on turning my blog into memory books for our family and so far, I've only gotten the first book, from the start of our journey to Tater's birth, semi completed. It's amazing how reading those entries can take me back to those very moments. :)

February 7:  He is one cute almost 2 year old!
 February 7:  I so love this! http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=2329

February 9:  Look who we saw last night.

 February 9:  Brennen came over to play trains with Tater.

February 10:  He loves pancakes! He ate 3 1/2 today.


February 10:  Sitting still on the parking lot that is known as Interstate 64. :-[

February 10: 
Travel time to the zoo today: 27 mins
Travel time home after the zoo: 2 hours and 31 mins.
So thankful for a super happy Tater during the wait.

February 10: 
Working on some art projects at the VBK house tonight.
February 12: Little man has a runny nose. No fun. :(

February 12: 
I should be sleeping. Instead, I'm up working on Dave's Valentine's gift for today. :)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012