Week 3!

Monday - Toddler Time has begun again at the library so our Monday's have become our Travel Tuesdays. I never take my camera so I don't have pictures..maybe I should take it one day though so we can have some memories. He definitely missed it the past couple of months..he loves to sing the songs and do all the movements, read books, and of course shake the librarian and her helpers' hands :)

Tuesday - Today we tried a project I want to do with my students this year for our Weather theme. Cloud painting!! Super easy too - just mix equal parts school glue and shaving cream. Then spoon it onto blue construction paper. When it dries it makes puffy 3D clouds! He couldn't resist playing with the goop when he was finished :)

Wednesday - Nathan found his alligator squirt gun that his Moomaw bought for him awhile back so we filled it up and headed outside for a water gun fight. He cheated though because he wouldn't let me squirt him so he had fun chasing me around the yard for awhile :)

Thursday - I was really excited for this science experiment because I had a lava lamp as a kid and I loved that thing! So when I saw a homemade lava lamp on Pinterest I immediately pinned it. You're supposed to fill a clear bottle a third of the way with vegetable oil and the rest of the way with water. Add a few drops of food coloring. Then slowly add 4 broken pieces of an Alka Seltzer tablet and watch the bubbles start to form. Ours didn't turn out so pretty...I think maybe I put too much vegetable oil and that's why it was so yellow. Oh well - it was still pretty cool.

Friday - I thought today we would try colored bubbles since I've done that with my students before and they enjoyed it. Nathan picked blue so that's what we made. He blew them and I tried to catch them on a piece of paper so I could show him the blue bubble prints they make but it was too windy and I couldn't catch many. He still had fun just blowing them...and of course squeezing the food color out! We also decided to swing since we hadn't done that in awhile.

Week 4!

Monday - Again today was Toddler Time at the library. No pics buts lots of fun :)

Tuesday - Another neat idea I found on Pinterest that I want to do with my students in September. Tape off the child's name on a piece of white cardstock with blue painter's tape. Unfortunately I did not plan ahead so I didn't have painters tape. I had to use regular tape which was not so great when peeling the tape off later. But then you let the child finger paint (or rather hand smear) the whole paper. When you peel the tape off it reveals their name in white with their nice paint job in the background. Nathan started nicely just dipping his fingers in the paint and dotting the paper until I showed him how it's really done. Then he was all over it!

Wednesday - Today we got the sprinkler ball out of the garage that his Nona got for him last summer. He was very hesitant to get close to it at first - I don't think he remembered it. So he made mama go with him. Once I asked him to go kick it he was okay with getting close to it and getting wet :)

Thursday - As I write this post I'm realizing how many of our experiments and projects we try seem to fail! Lol. Here was another one of those. Rainbow ice ball painting. Another Pinterest idea. Technically you're supposed to do this in the winter so maybe that's why it didn't work?? You fill up a balloon with water and freeze it overnight. The next day you cut the balloon off which leaves you with a big ball of ice. Then you add food coloring to a few teaspoons of water, mix it up, and paint the ice ball. Well we did that with many different colors but the color did not stick like in the picture. I finally got frustrated enough that I told him to just dump the colors on the ice. It looked pretty for a second and then the color just melted off. He didn't really want to paint anyway. He just wanted to touch the ice!

Friday - Lately he's been pretending that the laundry backseat is his "carseat." So I told him when Lucas takes a nap we can go in the grass and I'll push you in your car. He was pretty excited - he took the laundry basket, threw it in the grass, sat in it, then got out and headed for his truck that he likes to drive across the yard. I said "Don't you want me to drive you in your car?" He said "No." Too much other fun things to do outside I guess!

Week 2!

Monday - Since today was a holiday and my birthday, Chris was off work so we took Nathan to Project Playground early in the morning. So again I'm rearranging which days we do things. We did Travel Tuesday on Monday instead. He enjoyed it and we took him down to the bridge where he could see the river. If only he weren't so clumsy...

Tuesday - Today we did Monday's activity and we tried a new recipe. We made yogurt ice cream. We took an ice cream cone, filled it with strawberry banana yogurt, topped it with whip cream and since I didn't have any fresh fruit we used Captain Crunch berries :) He didn't want to eat the cone so he got frustrated when he couldn't get the yogurt out, but otherwise he liked it.

Wednesday - This was by far his favorite activity! I filled up about 20 water balloons and we went out back and took turns throwing them at each other. He loved throwing them at mama! He would get ready to catch them before I threw them at him, but at the last minute he would just cover his head :)

Thursday - Today we did a science experiment which I thought was really cool - he thought it was neat for a few seconds, but I've discovered he's obsessed with food coloring so all he wants to do is squeeze all the food coloring out! We filled a plastic cup halfway with white vinegar, added a little laundry detergent, a squirt of color, and a spoonful of baking soda...and 'tada!' - explosion in a cup!

Friday - Today I failed. Lol. It was just a busy day with CARC coming to work with Lucas and fixing food for a church get-together, so we didn't really do anything special. He still survived :)

So this is what I have planned for our summer...

I didn't want to have just another boring summer with nothing fun for Nathan to do. It's hard having Lucas and trying to do lots of fun things with Nathan but I believe this schedule will keep me on track, doing at least one fun thing with him everyday.

Day 1: We made slime! And I took lots of cute pictures, only to notice afterwards that I didn't have the memory card inserted so I lost them all! But he had so much fun making it and of course playing with it later. 

Day 2: We had plans to go to the park and feed the ducks. However, little brother decided he needed to go to the doctor! So mommy ended up holding him most of the day. So when daddy came home we let Nathan play in his new pool! (So we did Wednesday instead of Tuesday)

Day 3: Today Nathan got to take his trip. His Moomaw came and got him and took him out to see his Granny, who he hasn't seen in a while. He was so excited that he got to go. I didn't get a picture because I had to stay home with Lucas since he's not well enough to see his Granny yet.

Day 4: We did a science experiment today! It didn't turn out as well as it's supposed to but Nathan enjoyed it nonetheless. We were supposed to make rain. You fill a clear cup with water, put some shaving cream on top, and add a few drops of food coloring and it's supposed to seep through the "cloud" like rain. Our rain kind of poured out! Lol - I think he was more concerned about this pesky little fly that wouldn't leave him alone anyways. :)

Day 5: I tried to come up with a fresh and fun idea of something we could do and I thought back to what I thought was fun when I was little. So that's where I got the idea for a blanket fort. It was super easy and fast to make and Nathan was so excited for us to crawl in and out. He had to get tons of toys to bring inside too!

I'm a little late in posting this blog so we've already begun Day 1 of the next week and it's started great. I can't wait to keep posting!!