The field behind our house is CRAWLING with ladybugs. In just a few minutes my kiddos collected quite a jarful to observe for the afternoon!
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Flower straw for my sweet butterfly
Take a regular yellow cupcake wrapper, and cut it into a flower shape. Punch a hole in the middle and thread it on a straw. Then take a mini white cupcake wrapper and punch a hole in the middle of that and thread it on your straw. Put into cup of "nectar"(iced green tea for us) and serve to your little butterfly!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Spring Break
Every year, without fail, someone will ask me "Are you going to give your children a spring break?". And every year, without fail, I say "No, we save our breaks for when Daddy is on leave".
Every year, when the spring time weather comes around I cant bear to call the children in from enjoying the long awaited sunshine, and we are lucky to do school every other day (you know the days when it rains LOL).
But they are still learning so much.
I love that my children adore nature. It is rare these days that they are not found with binoculars or a magnifying glass in hand. That my coffee table is not scattered with field guides, and my floor isn’t covered with muddy foot prints.
It makes my heart happy when they spend hours watching this:
and this:
or this:
and catching this:
and this
Finding things like this:
and that I am never without an abundance of these on my counters and in my pocket
Every year, when the spring time weather comes around I cant bear to call the children in from enjoying the long awaited sunshine, and we are lucky to do school every other day (you know the days when it rains LOL).
But they are still learning so much.
I love that my children adore nature. It is rare these days that they are not found with binoculars or a magnifying glass in hand. That my coffee table is not scattered with field guides, and my floor isn’t covered with muddy foot prints.
It makes my heart happy when they spend hours watching this:
and this:
or this:
and catching this:
and this
Finding things like this:
and that I am never without an abundance of these on my counters and in my pocket
Life is good!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Snippet of our Day
♥You know it is spring when Andrew constantly has a creature in his hands, I LOVE that typical boy-ness about him!
♥flowers picked by children in vases and bowls all over the kitchen-makes mama feel so cheerful and loved
♥learning to play ball
♥our flashiest daily visitor
♥first time in the playhouse
♥flowers picked by children in vases and bowls all over the kitchen-makes mama feel so cheerful and loved
♥learning to play ball
♥our flashiest daily visitor
♥first time in the playhouse
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Spring Ramblings
Life is good.
We’re thankful to see Spring arrive, even though we’ve only had 2 days of nice spring weather so far! We celebrated the first day of spring with some festive cupcakes and fresh squeezed lemonade.
I’ve been spending my days enjoying being the mother of a toddler again. Abigail is walking all over now, and is the biggest goofball. She has always been so full of opinions and personality, but even more so now that she can express herself! She always has a goofy face on(examples below), and loves to give kisses! She misses Daddy terribly, and every morning talks to the picture of him hanging in the dining room, and she often comes to the computer and starts waiving at the screen calling Dada (We use Skype for video calls when he pulls into port, and she seems to think she should be able to talk to him whenever she feels like it. Luckily we have some videos of him we can play and it appeases her temporarily).
We’ve been starting the garden. This year I decided to really focus on flowers as well as veggies so we put in a bed in the front, and filled it with a few flowers and lots of bulbs and seeds. We are now anxiously anticipating seeing it grow and bloom. Next we’ll get started on the veggies on the other side of the garage.
We’ve been enjoying watching the birds arrive with spring as well. The hummingbirds are in full swing, always fighting each other over the feeder, and swooping at us if we get to close! We hang our feeder right outside the playroom window so it’s fun to watch them through out the day. This year we are down to just 1 feeder; the wind broke 2 of ours last year, plus those hummers were costing me a fortune in sugar! I was filling each feeder daily (2 cups of nectar each)!
We have suet outside the boys’ bedroom as well. I haven’t gotten to the bird store to pick up any seed or finch mix yet. Today we watched a Downy Woodpecker, Sparrows, Red Winged Blackbirds, Chickadees and a few male Finches come to the one feeder over the course of about half an hour while we played Battleship!
Last week we enjoyed this fun spring dessert! The boys thought it was the greatest thing ever! Chocolate ice cream with gummy worms, and crumbled Oreo dirt on top. Sugar overload, but so worth it to see their faces!
Hope you are all enjoying spring as well!
A recipe for the Birds:
We’re thankful to see Spring arrive, even though we’ve only had 2 days of nice spring weather so far! We celebrated the first day of spring with some festive cupcakes and fresh squeezed lemonade.
I’ve been spending my days enjoying being the mother of a toddler again. Abigail is walking all over now, and is the biggest goofball. She has always been so full of opinions and personality, but even more so now that she can express herself! She always has a goofy face on(examples below), and loves to give kisses! She misses Daddy terribly, and every morning talks to the picture of him hanging in the dining room, and she often comes to the computer and starts waiving at the screen calling Dada (We use Skype for video calls when he pulls into port, and she seems to think she should be able to talk to him whenever she feels like it. Luckily we have some videos of him we can play and it appeases her temporarily).
We’ve been starting the garden. This year I decided to really focus on flowers as well as veggies so we put in a bed in the front, and filled it with a few flowers and lots of bulbs and seeds. We are now anxiously anticipating seeing it grow and bloom. Next we’ll get started on the veggies on the other side of the garage.
We’ve been enjoying watching the birds arrive with spring as well. The hummingbirds are in full swing, always fighting each other over the feeder, and swooping at us if we get to close! We hang our feeder right outside the playroom window so it’s fun to watch them through out the day. This year we are down to just 1 feeder; the wind broke 2 of ours last year, plus those hummers were costing me a fortune in sugar! I was filling each feeder daily (2 cups of nectar each)!
We have suet outside the boys’ bedroom as well. I haven’t gotten to the bird store to pick up any seed or finch mix yet. Today we watched a Downy Woodpecker, Sparrows, Red Winged Blackbirds, Chickadees and a few male Finches come to the one feeder over the course of about half an hour while we played Battleship!
Last week we enjoyed this fun spring dessert! The boys thought it was the greatest thing ever! Chocolate ice cream with gummy worms, and crumbled Oreo dirt on top. Sugar overload, but so worth it to see their faces!
Hope you are all enjoying spring as well!
A recipe for the Birds:
HUMMINGBIRD NECTAR
In pyrex measuring cup ½ c sugar, 2 c water microwave until it boils let cool and store extra in fridge
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