Good-bye to Emmanuel

Today we also say good-bye to our sweet Emmanuel, he is off to pre-school. It has been so great having you here with us Emmanuel, and we love you so much buddy. I hope you have an amazing time at pre-school and make lots of new friends and have many fun adventures!

Baby Damien's 1st Birthday

Be still my heart people...my baby is 1..(his birthday was the 29th, but we celebrated today). Oh my sweet Nana Baby, I love you so,so much! Always remember when mommy says no, ask Nana, and don't worry you wont get in trouble cause Nana will spank mommy...Lol. Happy Birthday my precious baby...and many more to come! (Lots of photos)

Journal time

Big kiddos are practicing as well...they amaze me sometimes!

Toddler time

Practicing their mad skills...they are big kids you know!!

Watering the garden

They are so good about watering our garden...they will do anything to play in the water!

Fun friday dance off!

These kiddos love to dance, and it's fun Friday so hey...why not!

Circus graphing

These kiddos love this circus theme...graphing is fun too!

Garden goodies

Our first zucchini and 6 more okra for today...these kiddos are doing so good with our garden!

Board games

Candyland and Chutes and Ladders are the best...especially with friends...Emmanuel came out the big champ!!!

Making cookies

Chocolate chip cookies are what is needed today...and they even cracked their own eggs. They were so good!

Water Colors

Painting is the best, and water colors are so much fun! These two are so creative!

Fun Friday

On Fun Friday I bring out extra toys for the kiddos to play with. We are limited during the week for cleaning purposes, but we have to make an exception for fun Friday...Its like Christmas...lol. And my grandson loves to play along with the kiddos as well!

Being creative

Our Emmanuel just loves to draw and he especially loves to draw on the white board and tell the story of his drawing...I love it!!!

Clown Craft

We made a clown today out of shapes...learning and fun all in one!

Circus Puzzles

More puzzles...but these are Circus puzzles. A clown and an elephant. They colored them and I laminated them. They turned out so cute!

Site word puzzles

Learning words is so much fun, but more fun when they are a puzzle...these kids and their puzzles!!

Circus peanuts

Since our theme this month is the Circus, we decided we should eat some "Circus Peanuts". The kiddos love these peanuts and are so good at cracking them now.