Themed Activities | The Sweet Life of Reagan, Emmy, & Max

March Madness, indeed!

March 24, 2013 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

It would be fair to say that it is madness in our home no matter the month…

The girls spent the night with Aunt Mona-

Me and my cuddling buddy-

Dying eggs again at Gran’s-

We started a solar system study.

We borrowed a bunny for my Easter portrait sessions at the studio. Her name was Flora.

Surprise flowers from a good friend of mine!

Pretending to sleep with Flora-

Emmy & I discovered a new frozen yogurt place called Yogli Mogli that is right beside The little Gym. The yogurt is good, but we love going to play the board games! She beat me at Candyland and Chutes & Ladders!

We hit up Krispy Kreme after we picked Reagan up from TC.

Baby Chicks and ducklings at my studio-

We got to have a play date with some of our favorite friends. The girls loved meeting Hazel the Hedgehog.

Self-Portrait

Max got his first big boy bike at Gran and Papaw’s house.

We gathered a lot of sticks in Gran & Papaw’s yard just for Max to dump them. Typical.

I tried a panoramic shot from my spot in the yard at Gran’s.

Reagan’s writing (that she did all by herself)-

“My brother is a robber. He robs girl scout cookies.”

A trip to the library to check out some books on the solar system-

Reagan and Emmy pulled all these turnips at Gran & Papaw’s-

Another Thursday Yogli-Mogli stop!

Uh oh- this makes twice that this little boy has sat beside Emmy in The Little Gym and put his arm around her!

I got Reagan in all the classes I wanted for Thursday Connection! I was so excited. We’re most excited about the “Critters” class. Each week the Knoxville Zoo will bring an animal to class for them to study! How cool is that??

Spring weather = Happy Kids and Dogs

Jared gave us an old broken guitar. That’s all I really know to say about this picture. ha!

Tony took the kids on four wheeler rides around mom’s yard. They loved it!

We practiced baseball with the kids in the backyard. The girls did pretty good, but Max still has a ways to go…

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Sunday afternoon nap-

After church- cutie…

Here’s Reagan’s art-

“X-ray Style of Norvell Morrisseau”

“Zentangle”

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….January days continued…

March 22, 2013 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

An afternoon nap for Emmy and Max might feel wonderful at the time, but they will rise and keep you up all hours of the night. Beware.

Reading eggs time for Reagan. I have absolutely loved this online reading program. I have started Emmy on it this semester, too. They enjoy it so much.

Writing words in shaving cream!

Watching the clay volcano she made erupt with her Magic Schoolbus class…

Finally, a snow day!! Barely enough snow to do any serious playing, but still enough to make a mini snow man. 🙂

Painting at Gran’s while Kay Kay was in town!

Working on word families-

Making an activity to go with Jan Brett’s The Mitten–

An activity based on Karma Wilson’s Bear Snores On…

We talked about what animals do during the winter and sorted out all these animals into categories-

Working on ending sounds-

Dying easter eggs in January (only at Gran’s!)-

Working on some “chunks” (st, sk, sn)

Sight Word Bingo

Sight Word Bug Splat for Reagan and Letter Bug Splat for Emmy!

Looking at the US on the globe. I use Abeka’s social studies program for K, and Reagan really likes it. It is easy enough to use and fun for her.

Watching tv upside down (at Gran’s)-

Reagan pretending to be the teacher and reading to her two students. You can see Max was wondering- not a very good listener.

Trying out her telescope that she got for Christmas. She looked at a “Bee Wing” and then drew a picture of it.

We made our own “chunk” chart.

Emmy drew a her own big tree with her, Mona, and Kay at the bottom.

Playing hide-and-seek at Gran’s. Gran picked a funny spot this time.

Homeschooling with youtube videos- The “THE” song.

Here’s a video clip I caught while they were doing youtube homeschool (turn blog music on right sidebar before playing video)-

Pedicure-

A few of Reagan’s writings from the month-

Reagan’s other January art pieces from Miss Margaret’s class at TC-

“Robots getting into Geometrical Shapes”

“Hundertwasser Lollipop Trees”

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January days…

March 21, 2013 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

As we were walking out the door to go to Gran’s for dinner, Emmy grabbed her umbrella and said, “Mom, I hope it’s raining outside!”

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Our weekly trip to animal shelter- Emmy brought some milk bones from home…

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When I asked Emmy about what she did to her Bible, she replied, “But Mom, I like it that way!”

jan07

Here I am with my babies stuck like glue-

jan08

When I say my life is full, it really IS full!

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Emmy- “Feel my temp and see if I have a temp.” (notice swimsuit in January)

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Home-made hair wraps by mom!

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We studied “Animals in Winter”. We made a shoebox cave with a hibernating bear inside.

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Where do animals go in the winter?

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Em’s new Brave wig from Gran-

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I got to volunteer in Reagan’s Magic Schoolbus class at Thursday Connection. They studied bats and then did an echo location activity. It was really neat to see the kids pretending like they were bats and using the echo location method to find their food.

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Emmy and Reagan enjoyed lunch together in the cafeteria at TC. Emmy was excited to have brought her lunch.

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Rea’s art work from her TC Art Class with Miss Margaret- “Indian Sunset”

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Chuck E. Cheese

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I was so proud of my cousin Roston (aka Rosner) for his accomplishments as a leader for the Cougars basketball team.

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Psalm 23 with playdough

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Emmy was “sending emails”. (really just regular mail)

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A little laughter never hurt anyone! Watch this cute video of Emmy making Max laugh. (Turn blog music off before playing video!)

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Christmas time at our house…

January 1, 2013 By Rebekah Leave a Comment

I finally reached a point that I could totally take a break from business stuff and immerse myself with Christmas activities with the kids…. It really started to feel like Christmas this week.

We kicked off the week by doing our monthly nursing home visit. The children from the church did their Christmas program for the residents. They just loved seeing them in their costumes. It was such a blessing to see them excited and encouraged in the Lord.

My brother and I gathered at mom and dad’s house one morning at 4 am to make fried apple pies together. It was a special time that I will always remember.

While working on my Christmas cards, the girls were supposed to be drawing Christmas pictures on the back of notecards for me. I just wanted to slip a quick note in a few people’s cards and thought it would be fun to have the girls do some pictures on the other side of the cards. They drew a few Christmas pictures, but somehow started doing pictures of fruits and vegetables. Here’s a pumpkin, tomato, and strawberry.

Here’s one that Emmy drew that became quite the controversy between her and Reagan. Emmy said that she drew a Christmas tree and heart. Reagan said that the heart looked like a big butt and that we could not put it in someone’s card.

As I was driving home, my Uncle Rick had just dropped some hay in the road. He motioned for me to go around him, but when I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture, he went ahead of me. haha

Here they were sticking cotton balls to their noses with fettuccine sauce just to celebrate the fact that Emmy tried some pineapple at Gran’s and liked it! Silly girls! (lots of giggles)

Emmy wrapped up my pair of scissors that I was using to wrap gifts. haha Thankfully, she let me open the gift right after she wrapped it. ha!

Our first time making Oreo Balls- success!

On the way to church-

After church we had a LONG night of crafts at home. Max wanted to paint so bad so I finally gave in and let him paint for a while. I just went ahead and stripped him out of his clothes because he doesn’t have the reputation of being the neatest artist in our house. As you can see, he started getting a little carried away. He painted about ten pictures before it just turned into a silly mess. I tried to video it and was interested to see just HOW far they would take the mess, but alas, they didn’t draw the line at the appropriate time and we had to have some parental intervention before things got REALLY out of hand. haha

Myself, Lauren, and Daniel had a friendly facebook competition to see who’s Christmas tree was the best.

(1- me, 2-lauren, 3-daniel) Looks like Lauren actually won by FB votes (even with Daniel’s unfair campaigning!)

Crafting continued into the next day-

Sunday morning bath time-

We visited my dad’s dad’s house (My Papaw, aka Papaw Curtis to my kids) Here’s dad telling Max that Curtis is his Papaw, too.

After our trip to Scott County to see my grandparents, we went to Daniel’s grandparents to have Christmas with his extended family.

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This is a video of Max singing by himself. I am not entirely sure of what he is singing although I did hear him say “spider” a couple times so it could have been his version of Itsy Bitsy Spider.