February 26, 2016 - Violet's

Happy Birthday Violet. 

We love you so much and are so glad you are in our family.  It's so exciting that you have been in our family for 2 years now. You have grown so much and learned so many new things. You love playing with your brother and doing all the things that he can do. You both can be so silly. You love dancing to music and you bounce your feet in the car when you hear the music. You love looking at the moon with your dad. You love string cheese and yogurt drinks, and of course, Candy and fish crackers. You love wearing any ones shoes they leave out and you especially like wearing your boots. You love pockets and bags and purses- anything that you can pack around. You love looking at books and having books read to you. You love any Sesame Street Books and Elmo books, and your puppy books. You give the best hugs and you can say so many words and sentences. You have such a cute smile and you don't like getting your hair combed. You say "Night Night" when you want to drink your milk and lay down. You love dogs- and keep saying that James and Maddie's dog Rover is "My Fiki". You also love it when we got to Grandma Jan's and she reads you books and when Logan teases you and makes you run and scream and when Grandpa Dave teases you and says "My Grandma". You love the park and the slides and the bouncy houses at Kangaroo Zoo. We always have so much fun together. We sure love you!   

Chinese New Year ~ Feburary 8, 2016

Celebrating Chinese New Year 

Earlier this month I thought it would be fun for the kids to learn a little bit about Chinese New Year. Mostly we colored a picture of the Year of the Monkey and of course, we had Chinese food. Any excuse not to cook. Tanner and Violet love Chines Noodles and Ham fried Rice. 

Ground Hogs Day!

I've always thought that it was fun to celebrate holidays. Even ones that really don't mean much. But on Ground Hogs day it's pretty exciting to get up and see if the  Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow. Will he see it?  Will he not?  We just don't know until February 2nd. And the rest of our Winter/ or Spring depends on him.  The Weather according to a little guy who sleeps all winter. And  no matter what happens the first day of Spring always seems to be March 20th.
Well, yesterday was no exception. Only this time, Tanner woke me up and said; "It's Ground Hog's day."  So while we were eating breakfast we checked the news to see if the Ground Hog saw his shadow and he did- an Early spring indeed. I showed Tanner some other pictures of what a Ground Hog looks like and we watched the  Wild Kratts episode on Netflix about Ground Hogs and what they actually do. It's pretty interesting to know that the male Ground Hog doesn't even care about the weather. He gets up early to see if any female Ground Hogs are around so he can mate. They have to constantly eat so their teeth don't grow out of control and they can build up fat for the winter. Hillbilly Ground Hogs- That would be funny. Tripping on their own teeth.  

We also read the book Ground Hog gets a Say. That one has a lot of information about what a Ground Hog does and how they dig their holes and what they eat.  I had Tanner and Violet make their own pictures of Ground hogs. Tanner put the flowers in the Ground Hogs mouth and he said that his Ground Hog saw it's shadow and Violet said that her's didn't.

Because Ground Hogs eat Grass, Plants and some Fruits and Veggies we had a salad bar for dinner. Lots of different bowls full of different things that the kids could pick and eat. It's amazing that they will eat a salad if you say it's Ground Hogs food. For dessert Tanner and Violet made some Ground Hog cookies in Pudding dirt.

Tanner was helping Violet put her face on the cookie

Tanner wanted to add some Gummy worms to the dirt since worms live in the dirt too.  

 A happy Chocolate covered Violet.

I'd say we had a successful Ground Hogs day. We even watch Ground Hogs day with Bill Murray. Such a funny show.