Summer Splash

We've been BUSY with the girls enjoying the
summer weather (finally)!
Swinging, fishing, camping, garage sale-ing, visiting, splashing in puddles, dog sitting, playing in the sun showers, rescuing dragon flies from the pool,

swimming

and

loving the time we can spend with each other!!

Fairy Houses

Welcome Fairies!

We spent the morning making mud bricks ...

Enjoyed a great picnic lunch with a fabulous friend then the girls went around the yard gathering items to construct fairy homes. We saw the idea here
and have been waiting for a hot (dry) day to try it.

CJ found just the right items to size to make a chair, table and a little bed. I love the middle of a daisy that she used for the pillow. CJ spent a long time working her little fairy house.

CD reminded me of the Little Pig who built his house out of straw... get it done quick ~ go play in the sandbox and water table, slide, run around, play in the water, wash her wagon, swing, play on the monkey bars....

I wonder when the fairies will move in?!

First Day of Summer

Happy First Day of Summer!

It was a beautiful hot day here!

The girls and I make a
'summer fun' list
in our journals every year.
But these framed lists have been popping up everywhere in blogland (here is one place) so we decided to copy out our list, throw in some patterned paper and stick it in a frame.

(you can double click the picture to see what' on our list)

What's on your 'summer fun' list?!

Good Clean Fun

My friend who teaches kindergarten gave me this idea...


spread a whole bunch of shaving cream on the table and let the kids go wild.
We used the cheapest yet most unscented stuff we could find.
HINT: make sure you smell the stuff first ~ there is some really terrible "old-man-cologne" stuff out there.

It is such a great activity for the girls outside in the summer.
They can make words in it on the picnic table, little soft sculptures OR

use it as lotion which CD does a lot of.

It is super easy to clean up with the garden hose and the table always comes out super clean afterwards.

A Treasured Farewell

It occurred to me that CJ has been out of school for a month already!

Her end of year farewell was a pirate theme which she was thrilled with, she and Moto-Moto play pirates regularly. She had the perfect outfit to wear ~ her pink glitter skull & crossbones shirt, jean skirt
& white with black heart-crossbone leggings.


Our teacher gifts were treasure boxes filled with sand, gold coins, jewels, a special treasure map thank-you from CJ and a gift card for Starbucks. (Hope you all enjoyed a cool beverage on us!)




For the snack table we made pirate ship & skull-crossbones cookies.


After a trip to the spray park CJ came home to a surprise
"Welcome Summer" banner
(wish I could remember who to give credit to.)


It's hard to believe that summer holidays are nearly 1/2 over!!!
Off for a splash tomorrow with The Sprout & Sassy!