St. Patrick's Day Week

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day the week before the holiday.  Our week was filled with rainbows (reviewing our colors, too), pots of gold, shamrocks, and little men dressed in green.

Snacking in the sunshine.

 Rainbow necklaces

 Shape worksheet

 Besides helping with the glue, Tater did this all by himself. 

 Reviewing our shapes and colors. 

 Making a rainbow with our color blocks.

 We went on a green search!  Look at what we found.

 We made a rainbow in the jar.

 Tater loved watching the colors mix. 

 Mixing blue and yellow paint to paint our shamrocks.

 We used cookie cutters to make these shamrocks.

 We love taking walks when the weather is this beautiful. 

 Working our fine motor skills by placing the markers in the tubes. 

 We made a rainbow with the markers. 

 Making shamrocks.
Step one:Color coffee filters with blue, yellow, and green markers.

 Step two:  Spray with water. 

 Step three:  Let them dry. 

 Step four:  Cut into beautiful shamrocks. 

 We played in the grass and loved feeling the grass between our toes. 

A little prewriting practice.

 Putting the shamrocks in size order.

 We put our beanbags in the order of the rainbow. 

 Making the rainbow beanbags pop using our parachute. 

 Handprint shamrocks

 Making St. Patrick's Day matches.

 Who will win the race???  :)

 Putting together some St. Patrick's Day puzzles. 

 Our completed puzzles.  And yes, you are seeing a new student.  Sydney came to play with us that day. 

 Tater's puzzle.  When you ask him who it is, he says, "Daddy".  :)

 Stacking our blocks to make a rainbow.

 We made rainbows.

 Being silly while eating our snack in the sunshine.

 Art time

 Playing with green rice!  They LOVED this.

 Playdough

 Soccer

 Making rainbows using scrapbook squares.

 Aren't they pretty?

 Reading a rainbow book.

 We even found a rainbow in our Mickey book.

 Rainbow snack.

 Our St. Patrick's Day puzzle that we did together.

 Making rainbows using sponges. 

 Playing with green jello.
(Let me give a warning.  The kids loved this activity and it smelled great.  They played for over 30 minutes and they were full of giggles.  HOWEVER, it made their hands green and their hands stayed green for about 24 hours.) 

 We finished off our week with a special treat after lunch.  Rainbow sherbet. 

 Good to the last drop!!!

March 18-31

March 18:  As we get ready to celebrate our little guy's two year birthday tomorrow, I can't help but think about the woman who carried him for nine months and chose me to be his mommy. So thankful that she chose life for our precious Tater VBK.

March 19:  A big thank you to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday! I had a great day and loved my special pancake supper. 

Love, 

Tater

 March 20:  Thinking about maybe organizing a freezer meal party (where we could either prep meals or bring meals to swap).

March 21:  Tater and I made a microphone out of Tinkertoys.

 March 21:  He may drive me crazy at times, but he sure is cute. :)

 March 22:  Tater is already getting his summer tan. I am jealous!

March 22:  Dear Pollen, 

I know that you serve a purpose and are needed, but just for the record: You and I are NOT friends. :(

March 22:  Okay Papa K, I think I can positively say that since talking with you that I have now officially sneezed 100 times since I got home this afternoon.

March 23:  Cousin Brennen is here!

March 23:  Hanging out with Cousin Ayla.

March 24:  Soaking up some sweet snuggle time with Ayla while Tater naps.

March 24:  Tater had his first ice cream cone tonight.

 March 26:  Simply beautiful.

 March 26:  Tater's favorite toy = dirt!

 March 27:  Look who can hold it all by himself now!

 March 27:  We turned his train table into car town. 

 March 30:  Tater can now climb up all by himself. Growing up way too fast.

March 31:  Tater painted this morning while Dave ran the 10k.