You've been creamed

They had a little fun outside with shaving cream and a slip n' slide.

Silly guy.  He's taking a cream shower.

He almost looks like an albino and blends in with our healthy grass in the background.

;-)

This is a good, creative and inexpensive way to let the kids get messy and have fun.

Updated

Field trip to see some rescue vehicles.

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Hidden Hot spot

We ventured out to Lake Pflugerville.  They had a playground, climbing soccerball and beach; it was like 10 minutes from our house.  We will definitely be coming back with our suits on.

Alex was the only one that enjoyed this spinning tilted cup.

AAAAA, Tony.  He didn't say on long ;-)  But look at the beach behind him...nice!

This playground had about 3 or 4 different toys that spin based on your body's momentum. 

 I tried one of these spinning sticks, lol!

They were able to climb inside a soccerball (we just called it that).

This was the highlight of the trip.

They made it to the top and was able to watch the canoe-ers start out from the dock in the lake just beside us.

We are planning on taking the kids on a paddle boat or canoe in a couple weeks....I can't wait!!!

Birthday water toys

Tony got a bubble machine

and a slip and slide.

She Learned

Tony's 4th Birthday!

We had a great day celebrating Tony's birthday.  He woke up to his bedroom door decorated where he had to walk through streamers....it was funny to hear their reaction that and then to see the kitchen decorated too.

He got blow out banana pancakes and eggs for breakfast.

Then I surprised them all to their 1st movie theater showing Rio.  It was fun.

Later that night we ate his chosen dinner, homemade pizza, had garbage truck cake (stinky) and homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream (thanks meme for the ice cream makers year ago).

Time to open presents. 

Aliana loves her brothers!!

Tony has been talking about a specific toy since Christmas, something that he saw at Target one day.  It was a talking garbage truck named Stinky by Mattel.  So he finally got it and it does so much for a toy.  This garbage truck is like a robot.  Thanks Noni & Papa for the garbage truck ;-)

Balance Beam



New Page

I have been gathering all types of activities for kids so I thought I would share them with anyone who is interested.  The activities are grouped by indoor and outdoor ideas.

Check out the page for some ideas!

Kids Activities

Young Chefs

For part of Tony's Birthday, the boys went to a kindercooks class.  The whole class ended up being boys and they had sooo much fun.

Here they are going over the some cooking and kitchen rules and safety and discussing what they will be cooking.

They are finishing up and getting to taste what they made.

Baked corn dogs and cupcake cones (the cake was tie-dyed!).

Aliana wanted to be a part of this event so bad, so here she was getting to taste everything that each brother made. 

Now they want to make their breakfast, snacks and lunch.  Yay for independence and creativity!

He's excited he made his snack all by himself and even cut it.

Focusing!

Another great chef!

The 4th S'mores!

We ended our holiday with this treat the kids love.  I think it's the making and cooking of it that makes it fun.  I'm glad it's not the actual treat.

Tony's trying to get out of the line of heat ;-)

If you notice our pool has been taken down.  Since patios need to have a gradual slope away from the house, the pool took to that slope and became unusable.  So we are now in the process of making decisions and saving money to pour more cement for yet a bigger patio.

Playscape Island

We have started this little trip after church on Sundays.  We go home change clothes, grab lots of water, go get lunch (probably subway-healthier!) and head to what I have called it "Playscape Island".  It is actually a business that makes these awesome structures.  They have probably 15 different playscapes to choose from, play houses, castles, ships, storage houses, gazebos, tables, trains, and the momma of them all, something that has tunnel"s", slide"s", swing"s", playhouse"s", ladders, steps, balancing beam, etc (they can even sleep in it and pretend they're camping together).  We know which one we will save up for in the future when we have a bigger backyard.  This one!!  I'll have to get a picture of it next Sunday when we visit.  It's grand!

Pirate Ship

Inside the pirate ship is this fireman's pole.  Tony was trying to help Aliana down.

But she trusted daddy and Alex.  She did allow Tony to help her a little later though.

A little cottage.

Happy 4th of July ~ Independence Day~!

Tony's on the caboose saying bye to everyone as he passed (for pretend, the train didn't move).

Alex saying his good-byes as well.

World Tour Lesson: United States of America

This week we are learning all about the U.S. and it originating in 1776 as George Washington asked Betsy Ross to make the very first flag; the Colony flag of the original 13 colonies making it 13 stars and 13 stripes.

Capital: Washington D.C.

Language: English

Landmarks: The White House, The Grand Canyon & the Statue of Liberty (we'll  learn a little bit more)

Popular Sports: Football, Basketball & Soccer

Popular Foods: Hamburgers, Hotdogs & Seafood

Crafts: Quilting, Painting

Population: 310 million

They are watching one of the videos that I have posted below.  They're interesting.

The boys kept asking me to get another one, which is why I have 3 videos ;-)

Multitasking Tony :-)

Alex had an additional picture he wanted to post under the World Tour Lesson: Canada at the end.  Check him out!

HSA BBQ/Pool Party

July 2nd, I organized a Home-School Adventure (HSA) BBQ/Pool Party for the group.  It just happen to fall on the holiday weekend so we were happy to get 7 families to participate. That totaled 13 adults and 20 children, wha-who!

We were all breaking from the pool to eat lunch and play. 

 I would have taken pictures at the pool but it was a bit hard since we had 3 little ones to keep from drowning ;-)

Not really, Alex is doing so good that he wants to take his floaties off.  He's jumping off the side of pool doing all sorts of tricks.  Tony is now able to let his death grip go of Mark and I and able to trust himself and the floaties.  Aliana is jumping off the side of the pool too and going right under.