Babies

Exhausted

Usually when I come downstairs in the morning I'm greeted with "Oh hi mom!  Hiiiii!"
Or "Can you make me breakfast?"

This particular morning Cedrik said "I'm exhausted." Not wanting to miss the opportunity,  I laid down with him.  Freddie laid on both of us. :)

Clouds

Our cloud week was split over two weeks.  

We read The Cloud Book, a few books on the water cycle,  Little Cloud and The Water Hole.

We made a cloud with a glass jar, ice and hairspray-awesome-Thank you Pinterest. 

Tried to make a raining cloud with shaving cream-pinterest semi fail-maybe I had the wrong shaving cream but almost all of our rain got stuck in the cloud.

We listened to the water cycle song on YouTube about 20 times.  It is actually a catchy song.

We learned about tornadoes and hurricanes.  Cedrik finds them fascinating (who doesn't).

He also made a cloud book.  He painted white clouds onto paper and then when they were dry he looked at his creations and told me what they looked like.  Some of them were: helicopter airplane,  fancy airplane, rooster, turkey, and turkey bacon. 

Virginia

Eloise and I went with my dad and Donna up to Anacortes to see my grandma before she passed away.  I learned some new things about her.  These pictures chronicle the trip.

Owl Treats

Cedrik gives Eloise "owl treats." He says they are baby treats for doing something good.  He walks away then comes back and pinches his fingers and puts her invisible "treats" into her mouth.  Freddie copies him.  :)

Fish Week

This week we learned about fish.  He learned some of the parts of the fish.  He loves nomenclature cards.  I realized that he doesn't really like to color.  He will draw, paint, cut, glue, glitter,  but he just scribbles while coloring.  So I'm trying to find different ways to get him to be artistic because he has a very creative mind.

He is learning to count past 20.  He used dried fruit to keep counting and I think it was a hit.  And writing the letter d, in cursive-I can explain why later.  

We read: Drawing Lessons From a Bear, The Pout-Pout Fish in The Big Big Dark, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, research books on salmon, sharks, dolphins.

Fish week wouldn't be complete without water play.  He kept filling the shark up with water so it could breath through its gills.  We also learned about basking sharks (google it if you don't know) and we tried throwing raisins into each others mouths to show that it would be much more helpful to have a large mouth to catch more food, like the basking shark.  You'll notice in one picture he has a horn on his head, like the horn shark.  Awesome.

My favorite Cedrik quote this week: as I was telling him which books we were going to be reading he said "Where are the PISH (fish) BOOKS?!" I said, "I have a book about salmon. "He replied "No,  that's Nephi's brother."  (Nephi is a prophet from the Book of Mormon and one of his brothers was named Samuel)

"I am an artist!"

Long Lady

She is such a long baby.  Long and skinny.  And oh.so.cute.

Turtles & Tortoises

Tortoise is a fun word to write.

They live on land. Have huge shells, the Galapagos tortoises can grow to be 6 feet long.  Their bodies do not detach from their shell.  The carapace is the outer shell.  Cedrik loves being a tortoise and turtle.  He dug a hole for his eggs, and waited for them to hatch.  He was protected in his shell (the coffee table) from falling objects and Freddie's fists.
We watched a beautiful documentary on a sea turtle.  We also watched a tortoise lay eggs (he found this completely fascinating).

He learned they eat mainly vegetables but if they get hungry enough will eat dead animals.  Fun stuff.