Adaption. Migration. Hibernation.

I did our little preschool on "Animals in Winter Time".  For adaption we played a game where each child got to hide a nut and then the squirrels (other children) would come looking for it.  Then we made bird feeders by rolling a pine cone covered with peanut-butter in birdseed.  For migration we formed a V like geese and practiced "flying" in that formation.  We also read a book about whales migrating.  For hibernation we read "The Bear Snores On" and "Where Does Bear Go?"  I gave them a coloring page with a sleeping bear on it.  Their job was to make a nice warm cave for the bear.  Pepper glued grey circles (rocks) all around her bear.  Lastly, we taped animals onto a poster (that Pepper & I painted previously) into their proper homes.  I love how my kids always get excited for "preschool"... it makes me excited to prepare things for them.

Pepper, Tabor & Kitt

 I am down to only 2 people hanging on my legs 24/7.  Pepper has started looking at books, coloring, digging etc. on her own for an hour + at a time.  I am more efficient this way, thus giving me more time, to spend with her.  It is a happy little cycle. 

 Tabor said "Mom look at this picture I colored!"  I could not see a spec of ink on the page so I asked "What is it of?" in which he replied "It is Jesus getting baptized, he is under the water".  It was a blue paper.  I guess if it was white he would of seen a polar bear in a snow storm.

 When I made dough there was enough for two pizza's and then some.  Tabor insisted he used the extra dough to make his own pizza.  When we were sitting down to eat he asked where his pizza went.  Kitt had found it.

Each of these kids are sweet and enchanting.  Together they are chaos. But I love them!

little thief

When Pepper and Tabor were toddlers they would play with a toy for 30 seconds and then move on.  Neither concentrated on a activity long enough to be bothered when the other tried to take it over.

 

We now have that problem.  When Pepper colors Kitt tries to take the markers.  When Tabor builds a towers Kitt knocks it down.  This basically goes for everything they try to do.  In this case she kept taking off our tape "roads" and stealing the cars.  It is hard to get mad at her... she is so delighted whenever she takes something! 

Popcorn the Bear

Pepper got this bear from GG a couple years ago.  Tabor has long since taken it over.  The bears name is popcorn and has been Tabors companion for almost a year.  He reads him books, points to things out the window, feeds him etc.  They are currently in potty training together.  Round two.