Tiny Talk Tuesday

Izzie recently turned 4 years old, but lately will only answer to the name "Hailey" and insists that she is 5 years old.

Izzie: Mommy, I'm 5 years old!

Me: No, you're 4 years old.

Izzie: How old are you?

Me: (Pause) 30....

Izzie: How did you get so old?

Izzie loves pretending that she has "really big problems", so she can call Team Umizoomi for their help!

Izzie: Mommy, I can't find my phone!

Me: Oh, no! That's a really BIG problem!

Izzie: No, that's not a really big problem....that's just a short problem.

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Kite Flying Fun!

Over the weekend, we went to a Kite Festival, which was so much fun!

The girls enjoyed decorating their kites!

And flying them, too!


A little help from Dad...

Flag Ceremony...

Playing under the gigantic American flag!

Don't you just love our family photo??

Oh, how I wish for just one family picture with all of us looking at the camera and smiling....maybe in 10 years!!

I Spy Shapes...

For our stART project this week, we focused on shapes. First, we read Shapes, Shapes, Shapes.

This is a great book to help discuss that there are shapes all around us and to help describe what type of shapes we see in our environment.

Then, I printed off these super cool Shape Viewers (laminated, glued Popsicle sticks to the back to make sturdier, then added one more for the handle).

As we read, Eye Spy Shapes, we played the game too with the new shape viewers!! Izzie had so much fun discovering all the different shapes around the house.

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Kid's Book Festival

We headed out to our local PBS Kid's Book Festival and had a blast, even with the 90+ degree weather in September, which is very rare in our neck of the woods!

It was a nice surprise when we got there and EVERY child received a new book! Wow! Mac found a very colorful book, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Izzie is very interested in the weather these days, so she was very excited to find, What Will The Weather Be Like Today?

They were also passing out used books to the children and had a variety of craft stations.

Izzie making a bookmark.

Of course, there were many PBS characters too!

(And, wouldn't you know it...my batteries died....ahhh, I only was able to take 4 pictures!!!)

Preschool and Tot School

Yep, we had a busy week, so Preschool and Tot School were pretty much nonexistent! Well, the structured part...we did read a lot of books, visited the library, attended two homeschooling co-ops and squeezed in a little family fun too!

We spent a few days at Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg and the girls had so much fun! I was really surprised by how much fun! I was a little worry that they were too young, but it was perfect for them.

Our room...

Izzie loved that she and Mac had their own little "cabin" inside the room...

I loved the fireplace...and yes, we did use it, even though, it was not needed! (We just turned up the air conditioner....kidding!)

View from balcony...we didn't make it outside to swim on this visit! There was also a rock climbing wall and miniature golf course.

On to the gigantic inside water park...

Mac had the best time with the water spouts!

When Izzie is asked, what was your favorite part? Her answer...

Catching Mac on the slide!!

Dinner at the Moose Lodge...

In our own little hut!

Then, on to the show!

Finally, a bedtime story with the Wolf...

The girls were a little scared by the big wolf, but....

They loved the "girly" wolf...

Other sites around the lodge...

Izzie teaching Daddy how to play checkers, her way, of course!

We had a magnificent time....a lot of great memories, cherished....


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