It's O time

We were talking about the letter O. We did a big letter O in glue and had Marilyn attach O ceral to it. Most of them got on the page but it was a great snack too. (Again she dressed herself and got all the straps twisted. It looked so uncomfortable but she loved it and didn't want help)When glueing was boring we practiced putting the ceral on the chenille stick. I would love to get lacing beads but I think she needs something firmer than string to put it on.

Dancing with the Bear

I was watching Dancing with the Stars when Marilyn decided that she needed to participate. She put on her dress (yes I know it is inside out), her dancing shoes and grabbed her partner, Teddy bear.

On the show they had ended in the splits. So above is Marilyn doing the splits...HA!!!

I don't know if she would win any trophies but I would vote for her ;-)

This was perfect entertainment for the snow day. It completly wore her out

Nosey

He is into EVERYTHING!!!! I had gotten something out of here so he HAD to check it out :-)

Strawberries

Marilyn is use to being able to set her food and drink down on her little

table. However now that Austin is up on everything we need to change that

habit. Marilyn had left a couple of strawberry pieces up there and Austin
helped himself.

Early Fathers Day

Paul loves to ride his bike but really doesn't get a chance with the kids around. I am hoping that he can use this in the summer to take the kids to the park that is too far to walk but too close to drive. Kids will have fun, mommy will have a break and Paul will get to ride. The back has storage for diaper bags and a cooler. This is extrely light and can be a stroller also. From the looks of it it is TWO THUMBS UP!!!!

Big smiles before goodbyes

The week got away from us without taking group shots. I don't know how I let that happen. Here was our last ditch effort before Mema had to leave. No there was not a picture where all three even were just looking at the camera. But they are still SO CUTEMeMa and Marilyn smiling ...... at eachother. Why can't they smile at the camera.

Marilyn was telling Mema to look at the camera and smile. Marilyn know how this works ;-) HA

Princess Bed

I love how imaginative Marilyn is. I left the storage container out and at this point it had become a princess bed and Marilyn had taken her throne.

Butterfly hands

We are making butterfly hands for springtime art. I am thinking of sending them out as Easter cards also. I couldn't find scissors so I decided to use the kids ones that i had not shown Marilyn yet. Mema was "brave" enough to assist Marilyn on learning to cut.

She looks so shocked about how they work ;-)

To add some texture and sparkle we got some glitter glue.
I don't know if Marilyn liked it on the paper but she relaly liked it coming out of the tube.

We needed a background page so we opted for more stamping. Marilyn found it faster if the stamps "danced" rather than doing it one at a time.

Her final MASTERPIECE!!!

STAMPING

It's amazing what you can find at the dollar store. We found these great stamps that are extremly easy for Marilyn to hold.

Marilyn's first stamping page ;-) This went home with Mema for Pepa to see.

She was proud of it.

Just hanging out

Who says you have to go somewhere to have a great time. Mema was trying to rest and the kids were having a great time climbing on her. Mema and Austin having a heart to heart discussion.

We were having fun till we smelled something a little stinky. Marilyn had to confirm and you can tell what Austin thinks. HA!!!

Somthing was just Hilarious and these two laughed for a long time rolling around on the floor.

Bird's nest

CRAFT TIME!!!! We decided to make a bird's nest for an Easter/Spring time craft. At first Marilyn was just excited about the balloon but she soon go the hang of things.
She loved mixing the glue goop and getting the string wet.

After Marilyn was done with the string it needed some extra help from Mema to fill in the holes so the nest could hold some eggs.

Marilyn was very proud of her nest.

Complete with eggs

Marilyn likes the nest but love the candy Robins eggs inside and ask for an egg whenever she sees the nest. I have a feeling that the nest might be flying to Daddy's work for awhile ;-)

Mema's visit

Mema came to visit us for her spirng break. She got in late Thursday night so the kids were already in bed. Marilyn had been so excited about Mema coming that Mema got her up Friday morning. The two didn't miss a step it was like they saw eachother everyday. Mema's job was to spoil the kids. She brought lots of books, awesome new file folder games, some movies and the best thing a kids digital camera or smiles as Marilyn calls it. I haven't had a chance ot get a picture with Marilyn and heer camera becuase if she know you are taking a picture she smiles and poses. But we did have to take the smiles to the zoo.

Mema and Marilyn posing at the zoo.

Marilyn and Mema got to ride the carousel.

AND the train. This was Marilyn's first time to get to ride the train.