GASP, a SINGLE day post! What ever has occurred? Well… that dishwasher is running, the boys avid outside sandbox players and my girls enjoying their retro dollhouse courtesy of Karyn freeing up a wee bit of time over the day to allow me to rearrange things, sort a bit AND blog in a timely manner!! The freedom! Only a sink full of dishes to hand wash and they were done! 

Last night I made some major inroads on our penguin… just stitching on that white front bib portion has made it much more birdy… the next portion for tonight is the tail and then I focus on the beak (dealing with the brim of a baseball cap and the eyes. I was a little worried about how penguin like it would be but I think we will do just fine! 

We started some wonderful Halloween print outs and crafting… the best time filler this afternoon was giving them each a wooden Halloween shape and then spilling out the craft bits. The mess is always daunting once they get well into it, but with every craft event we try and get even more organized, more baggies and containers and filling specific drawers. 

Emanuel was really enthusiastic about workbook time – he was the only one really. We worked on letter sounds together and he was absolutely amazing at it!

When Emanuel and Trinity were having their short quiet time I snuck Echo out with the boys and we took some Halloween inspired photos. Can you believe that is a 3-6 months outfit! Ok, so not a big surprise – but a big thank you to Holly who sent it to us! 

That also had us out putting up our paper chains  to decorate our tree out front! They did it all themselves including the stapler! (I just finished off the papers they had left over when they ran out of time last night). 

Trinity and Emanuel made mini books from our favourite UK site… there are a few options and you can find them here. Note the severe loving of the pink! 

Just a heads up – Currclick is having a freebie treasure hunt! Quite a few of the files are American but they all look interesting. Be sure to check them out on Facebook to find out where the harder files are hiding! 

We had our now weekly pj storytime at the downtown library with Trinity, Emanuel and Karyn… today’s subject – trucks! Our craft was making a tow truck using paper and brads. Not bad! And now I need to get a TAL cardso when I go to my mom’s for the weekend before Halloween I can take the kids to the library there and take some books out! 

All in all a pretty good day! I worked on finishing the girls’ Halloween themed hair things, continued my pre-crafting party tidying and of course… laundry laundry laundry tonight. 

 

I am hoping to see a positive attitude tomorrow all round, we are going to have our time with our NEW library books as well as some more crafting time… maybe a Halloween themed something or other! As long as we work together and learn SOMETHING the day will be a success!