PAYTON JANE

Today is my nieces birthday!!! Ms. Payton Jane is 5 years old today!

I love you Pay Pay and i hope your have fabulous birthday!!! Cant wait to see you soon!

DRAG RACES

We took Joshie the drag races this past weekend. We weren't really sure how much fun he would have or if he would even like them at all, but we had free tickets so we took a chance! Thankfully we had the head phones for him. He just kept those on the whole time and loved watching the cars. He would get a little bored in between the races but he had fun watching them.

I HAD FUN!!

Joshies Heart

You know that cute, adorable things that kids say?? Well Joshie had one yesterday. I figure if i write it on blogger i would always have the story. It was cute and funny at the same time.

M= Me

J= Joshie

First thing...early that day we were talking about our heart. There is a kids song on Noggin that say "When your in my heart, your in my family." One of our favorite songs!! So i told him where is heart was and we tried to feel it and listen the each others heart.

J - I think my heart is here (points to his stomach)

M - No, you heart is up here

J - But i think it fell in my tummy

M - Your heart cant fall in your tummy. Its stays right here and it never moves anywhere.

J - Cause its got sticky tape on it?

M - ummmm sure!!!

GREEN GHOST

We had a rainy day a few days ago. So we were stuck inside. We did all kinds of stuff. I downloaded a bunch of kids music videos on youtube and the kids love that!! Joshie is learning out to use the mouse and click on the video he wants. I put a sticker

on the side of the mouse that he has to click until he gets more use to it. We played hungry hungry hippos, did puzzles and then i got creative!! :)

Well this is something we did when i worked at the day care, but we made butterflies. These are so fun and so easy for the kids to do.

First you cut out any shape you want out of wax paper. Make it easy for you for the last step! :) The cut out any color of tissue paper you want. Cut them in squares or have the kids rip it apart for you (that makes a GINORMOUS mess)

Put glue all over it and let the kids cover it with tissue paper.

She didnt get very far! She got bored :)

Doesnt look so cute but you have to cut all the pieces that hang over.

Then take your cut and trace it on any color paper you want. Then i just cut on both sides of the line you just made...make sure you do two of them. One for each side of your cut out.

Turned out so cute!!!

DANCE CLASS

Reese had her first dance class a few weeks ago. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!! I put her in the class so she could play with other girls. All my friends and neighbors have boys so she has NO girlfriends. I feel bad for her. I also hoped this class would have more then 3 girls! :)

Well the first class was horrible!!!! Its started out good. We did some stretching and she did them with me. I thought she is going to have fun and be a good girl!! I COULDNT HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG!! We started using props to get the girls to dance and Reese wanted no part of it. She decided she was going to cry and cry and cry. She would run to the door and try to get out. Finally i just gave up and we left. Luckily the class is only a 1/2 hour and we only had about 10 more minutes left.

Oh one more thing...it turned out she was at the beginning of a week long sickness!! The second class, which we had this past weekend, went so good!! She had so much fun and love playing with all the props the teacher had and even playing with the 2 other girls!! YAH!!

Before class...eating donuts and happy as can be!

Stretching...look at the look on her face. "I think im not going to like this."

"Okay maybe i will try stretching with mom"

"Okay this is not what i want to be doing."

"THAT WAS THE MOST TRAUMATIC THING I HAVE EVER DONE!!"

That was just so much fun!! :)