Wednesday, December 13, 2006

-The girls helped fold and hang laundry.
-Astrid laid around under the Christmas tree day dreaming.
-We baked chocolate mint sandwich cookies for the cookie exchange tomorrow at PEG.
-The girls helped make noodles and beans for lunch.
-We talked about animals that eat bugs. I told the girls, to their great surprise, that some people also eat bugs. Astrid wondered what happened to them after ingesting such things.
-Astrid played with virtual paper dolls on the computer.
-We found a bag full of circles cut out of old Christmas cards, which I think came from my mom's and were intended to be used for some sort of craft. Astrid sorted them all out and then had me write a list of things which appeared in the pictures for her to sound out. I listed 15 words. She made it through the first ten before getting frustrated and quitting.
-Muirgen played with Ello (a building system that inolves stacking shapes with holes in them on little poles), the train track set, and her babies and stroller.
-Astrid sorted the hair accessories and put as many of them as she could in her hair (about 20).
-She looked at library books.
-We went through all the papers containing work and pictures the girls have done and organized them in binders.
-The girls helped make macaroni and cheese and steamed broccoli for supper.
-We read a couple story books, as well as a story from the Prince and Princesses book.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

-Drove Jase to work and did the grocery shopping.
-Assembled and wrapped some Christmas gifts.
-Spent most of the afternoon making Christmas ornaments.
-The girls engaged in imaginative play that involved quite a few costume changes for both of them.
-They drew cities on large pieces of papers that included roads, houses, stores, parking lots, cars, hotels, etc.

Monday, December 11, 2006

-The girls helped me hang laundry.
-They drew pictures. Astrid has been really into looking at people and trying to draw them exactly as she sees them. She's been adding every little detail, right down to the wrinkles under eyes.
-Muirgen danced while I played piano.
-Astrid played with the nativity set.
-They looked at photo albums.
-We read the part of the Christmas story where the angels visit the shepherds.
-Sang 'The First Noel' and 'While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night'.
-Astrid made a sheep craft.
-We talked about the names for male and female sheep, as well as a group of sheep, what sound sheep make, etc.
-Said all the nursery rhymes we could think of that had to do with sheep.
-The girls played ballet school.
-They experimented with what their voices sounded like when they "put them inside bottles" of different shapes and sizes.
-They pretended that Jason was a talking air castle and jumped all over him.

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Jason's 31st birthday

Friday, December 8, 2006

-The girls helped me clean the third floor.
-We finished making the hand and foot print angels.

-We baked a birthday cake for Jason.
-The Sieberts came in the afternoon, so the girls played with Soren and Nathan.
-They helped me make millet and vegetable stew for supper.

Thursday, December 7, 2006

-PEG.
-Walked to A&P to pick up a couple things, then to the local highschool to buy tickets for their production of 'Beauty and the Beast'.
-We talked about why birds fly south for the winter.
-The girls played.
-They helped me make salmon pie for supper.
-We went to see 'Beauty and the Beast'.

Oops!

Sorry for the 2 "Wednesday December 6"s. I was a day ahead of myself and blogger won't let me edit my post for some reason.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

-Girls played with Noah's ark set, dolls, etc.
-They helped me bake brownies.
-Worked on our Christmas gifts.
-Painted our hands and feet to make prints that we'll make into angels when they dry.
-Made corn chowder for supper.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

-Muirgen helped hang up laundry.
-Girls played with paper dolls, colouring books, the Noah's ark set and their felt board sets.
-Worked on making our Christmas gifts. Talked about fractions as we were dividing a recipe in half.
-Muirgen spent a lot of time dancing.
-Astrid played in her room for a while. Not sure what she was doing, but I could hear her singing a song that went something like this: "I am the most strongest girl. I am the most toughest girl. I am the most bravest girl. I know everything. If you'd like to know something, come to me and I will teach you..."
-Girls played outside in the snow.
-They made angels out of cut out bell shapes.
-Astrid did a "B is for bell" puzzle on the computer.-We looked at the calendar and counted the days until Jason's birthday.
-Swimming lessons. For some reason Muirgen refused to go in the water tonight. She just sat on the edge of the pool for the whole class. Thankfully their teacher is very good about not pushing them to do what they don't want to do. This was their last lesson until January (assuming we can get a spot - we're on the waiting list right now).

Friday, December 1, 2006

-The girls helped with hanging, folding and putting away laundry.
-They played together, creating imaginary scenarios, most of which had to do with Christmas.
-Walked to music class in the pouring rain - not overly fun. Our umbrellas kept getting blown inside out due to the heavy winds and we were soaked. It is December now. I wish it were snow that was falling! Today was our last music class. The kids listened to songs that switched from major to minor keys and did different dances for each key, among other activities.
-The girls danced around to Christmas music.
-We had a discussion about what soul music is, as one of our Christmas CDs has a song called 'A Soul Christmas' on it. Talked about how our friend Bonnie performed the song 'Soul Man' in the play Cinderella that we saw last weekend. We got out a James Brown CD to listen to more soul music. The girls danced to it.
-They made finger paintings.
-Observed a beautiful rainbow. Talked a bit about how rainbows happen. Muirgen wanted to go over to the street where the rainbow was, so we talked about how you can never get to a rainbow.
-Worked on our Christmas gifts.
-Girls helped make fettucine alfredo for supper.
-They hung out with Jason for the evening since I went for dinner at Ann's place with a bunch of women from Next.

Thursday, November , 2006

-PEG.
-Had lunch at church with three of the other moms from PEG and their kids then we all helped decorate the Christmas tree in the church sanctuary with decorations the kids had made in Sunday school over the last couple weeks.
-Went over to Jordin's. The girls helped Jordin and Jul make a 'Welcome Home' banner for Thomas who has been away for the past 3 months and will be arriving home Friday night.
-Sat on our porch for an hour and a half because I locked us out of the house. Wouldn't you know it, Jason was late. He called and left a message saying he'd be late, but of course we couldn't get it.
-Went out for supper since I was unable to make any being locked out.