Tape Roads... Lots of fun!

Today I made Cameron a little city on the floor using painters tape! I got the idea from Pinterest and knew he would love it... and he does! We made a few parking lots, an airport, a construction site, a dump and a gas station. Im pretty sure this is pure heaven for him. Hopefully Connor wont rip it up as soon as he gets up!

 This is our little gas station... pumps out of tape lol

Here he is landing an airplane on the runway at the airport... and you can see the planes and helicopters parked too.

 We even put a parking lot up on the couch!

Halloween!!

This year my boys were both so excited for Trick or Treating! Cameron really understood what he was going to get to do since he remembered from last year and Connor just understood that whatever it was we were going to do would mean he got candy lol. Cameron wanted to be an astronaut (thank goodness it was a costume this year I could find! Unlike the garbage man last year!) And Connor was a monkey because he is my little monkey, always climbing on everything! This was the best photo I could get of the both of them together, either one wasnt looking at me or the woudnt stand close enough to eachother or one was running away lol.

 Once Connor got a peice of candy in his bucket he wanted to eat it... the first couple candies dissapeared quickly! We had to convince him to leave it in there!

 We had just left when I took this photo and already Connor had a "candy face."

 This is Cameron and his buddy Jackson from across the street :) We went with them this year, so glad we found some friends to go with!

 Connor got tired of walking and decided being pushed in a stroller while eating his candy was a better alternative =P



Pumpkin Carving 2011

I had to forego the Pumpkin Patch post because it was not a pleseant experience this year... A couple days before my camera broke and I had to send it off to Nikon for repair :( So I borrowed a point and shoot from my aunt for the pumpkin patch and of course I can work a fancy DSLR but for some reason I couldnt get the point and shoot to take decent photos! And then, we went to go to a pumpkin patch I had found and we realized once we were there (by now it was already 6:15pm) that they charged admission plus the price of your pumpkins. So we set off to find another one that we didnt have to pay admissions for. By the time we got to one it was already dark and freezing :( So I was kinda grumpy since I couldnt get any good pictures, it was cold and dark, we couldnt barely see to find our pumpkins etc...

So... on to the carving!

 Connor decided to taste his pumpkin while he was cleaning it out... he realized very very quickly it didnt taste very good!

 This picture is for Bret... he thought it was so funny to do this in the background lol

 We cant do anything without power tools in this house!! Which of course Cameron doesnt mind, it made him very happy!

The Great Bug Hunt

This morning for our preschool lesson we learned about bugs... my least favorite creatures by far. But Cameron is fascinated with them and loves to find them so I figured it would be a good lesson for him. I found some word sheets with different parts of the bug (thorax, legs, antennas, etc) for us to talk about and look at. We painted thumbprint lady bugs and he thought that was a lot of fun too. Then did a few worksheets and we were off to the bug hunt! Before we left I had to go down to the basement to grab something and how ironic (and a little gross) is it that there was this big black grasshopper thing sitting at the bottom of my stairs?! So I yelled to Cameron to bring me the bug catching jar and we snagged it up! I cant quite get over that this nasty thing was in my house lol but it made his day!

 Cameron searching in the plants for bugs....

 We found this little tiny slug and talked about it for a little while. We chatted about how some bugs have hard shells like the grasshopper and they are fast, while other bugs are soft and slow. Sadly for this little guy Cameron got a little excited at one point and kinda squished him.... I know, horrible. =P

 We decided against putting the slug in with the grasshopper, for one at this point he was squished... and for two I explained that bigger bugs eat little bugs so Cameron didnt want to do that. So here is our lone yucky grasshopper....

 We started looking under rocks for bugs now, and good thing we did! They were everywhere! We found a few little slugs and then we stumbled upon a big group of rolly polly bugs (aka potato bugs). Cameron loved that they would roll up into a ball when they were scared and then straighten out and crawl around on his hand. We put 3-4 of these in our jar :)

 Here is our jar with the grasshopper and the rolly pollys....

 Next we spotted this BIG spider! It was a frail little thing but quite large in size. It was really fast too and I wasnt about to pick it up... so we didnt catch it. But we watched it for a little while crawling around on the rocks.

 Cameron observing the bugs we caught when we were all done. After we finished we went inside and painted the bugs we saw. Well, I painted them and Cameron just painted =P It was a fun morning!



Under The Sea - Preschool Lesson

This morning we had a lesson on animals that live in the ocean. He loves these types of things, anything to do with animals he gets so excited! He loved talking about all the different animals that live in the ocean, crabs, seahorses, fish, sharks, etc. He told me his favorite sea animal is the crab. He loves crabs! Back home he used to go out in my inlaws backyard or go to the beach with my parents and search for crabs under rocks. He used to get so excited when he would find one, he would pick them up and collect them. After we talked about all the animals and did some fun activities we made a few sea animals of our own. We made a fish first and then made a crab and an octopus. He had a lot of fun making these. I let him choose the colors and cut out the peices needed, except they circle eyes and the crab pinchers I did those. But we have been practicing cutting shapes and so I just drew things out for him and then he cut them. He painted them all and we put them together. He asked me if we could make more another day so I guess he liked it!

Pre-Halloween Dress Up - A Birthday Party

Yesterday my cousin Amanda threw a fun Halloween Birthday party for her son Nathaniel who just turned 4! Happy Birthday Nathaniel!!! We had fun going and fun getting to dress up before Halloween too. Cameron is going to be a "space man" as he calls it and Connor is going to be a monkey this year. They had lots of fun! Thanks Amanda for the invite!

Car Show

Yesterday we took the boys to a car show close by our house over at Jordan Landing. Bret always seems to know when and where to find local car shows so since we had no other plans in the morning we decided to go. Cameron loves cars so he was in heaven. Connor loves cars too but doesnt get really excited by life size ones yet. He was more excited by all the dogs at the show! He loves dogs! It turned out to be a fun little family adventure :)

 This photo below of Cameron was him showing me how BIG the engine of the Camaro was lol.