Little Chef

So M is turning out to be quite the little chef. He really loves cooking over our little "fire" and yesterday I watched an idea dawn over his face. He got up, took his little pot and spoon, and slunk off to the kitchen, where I could here the scraping of the stepstool being moved to a better location. And then he found a potato, put it in his pot, and went to cooking. He even rapts the spoon on the side of the pot like I do! I snuck a photo, and then kept a careful eye on the light that let's you know when the burners are on.

A couple of fun moments with Daddy...

And here's M in the snow fort the basement boys made for him.

And here's Mr. A (another one) playing catch with L!

And here's a great link for the day - it will totally make you want to paint!

And here's something I wish some of my less comapassionate teachers would have known!

Snow Day

We got a good bunch of snow (for D.C.) and went out to play Monday morning! It was really fluffy, but now it's starting to be pack-able, so we're going to try and go out again after rest time! Mr. A took pictures for us, and was willing to share! There's a few of our basement boys, in case you're wondering where all the handsome gents came from!

Fossils and Fire

For something so simple, this project was very exciting to L! I buried a couple of dinosaurs in plaster, using a plastic cookie cutter for a mold. We all took turns excavating the fossils (we also had a brush to scrape away the dust). It wasn't as messy as I thought it would be, and L spent a bunch of time really focusing on this project. It was really funny when he found the second tail and realized there were two dino fossils in there! I would like to find a better-for-kids scraper though. Oh, and we also made plaster casts of their feet!

And this has been, without contest, my favorite letter F project! I got the idea from Fun in the Making, a crafty, green blog that has some great activities for kids! We put some real marshmellows on sticks (Fun in the Making used paper ones), and the boys "roasted" them. It was so much fun. We pretended to sleep under the stars, and when we woke up we got some of their cooking stuff (a little pot, a wooden spoon, and empty yogurt cups) and made pretend oatmeal. L got out his map and we went for a grand explore to find some apples (and gave me some good ideas for future maps). It was so much fun!

Sweet dreams to all!