The Doctors Wife

Snow Bunny

This little cutie had so much fun playing in the snow when it finally warmed up enough to go outside and play! 

Valentine's Ideas

I had a couple of emails asking me about the activities I am using for my wreath. I am doing very simple things, but I will share for those who were wondering (or if you are snowed in and need something to do!)

Making Valentine's for the Grandparents

•Read a special Valentine's book (x2) (I already mentioned the first book, and I picked up a couple more from our library)

•Make Valentine's for Grandma & Grandpa and Grammy & PaPa (She used an entire glue stick for you Grandma!)

•Bake Valentine's cookies

•Pop Popcorn and watch Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

•Make a Valentine craft (x3) I don't have anything specific planned, I am going to see what I'm up for when the time comes  ; ) Nothing a quick search on Swagbucks can't fix if I can't come up with anything! (If you don't do Swagbucks, you are missing out, it is like Google, but it randomly gives you points for searching- and you cash in your points for prizes, I have gotten a ton on Amazon gift cards using Swagbucks, and if you sign up, click on my link above and I will get referral credit : )

•Deliver Valentine's (we will be seeing family for David's birthday)

•Take Valentine's treats to dance class

•Make a Valentine's house- (I bought a gingerbread house to make before Christmas, but the sickness from hell hit our house the week before Christmas, and it never got done, but I didn't want to toss it out, and I am not saving it for a year, so we will decorate it with Valentiney candy and call it good)

•Watch a special Valentine show (again I have no exact plan, but will have my DVR ready to catch a Valentiney episode- surely something on Noggin will be Valentine related?)

•Help make Valentine treats for the puppies (heart shaped, of course!)

•Take a special treat to Daddy at work

See? Simple things! I think those of you who asked may be a little let down! For the crafty stuff/ valentines I am trying to use up old scrap-booking supplies so I am not planning on buying anything so I plan on making something up depending on what all I find, or if I see a cute idea somewhere that fits with what I have on hand.  Anyway, I hope this gives you an idea of the kind of things we are up to!

I love how they are concentrating on what they are working on so hard! Hope you guys are all staying warm!

 

 

The Snowy Day (or in our case Days)

A couple of weeks ago we had some snow in our neck of the woods, so we read The Snowy Day.  We have had a ton of snow this last week (along with most of the country!) so I thought I would share some of the activities that we did with this book. 

We made coffee filter snow flakes and decorated them with glitter and hung them in our front window. 

Styrofoam ball snow-man (I got the balls in a set from the Dollar tree)

Puffy snow flakes (Don't you love how she's holding her baby?)

Made Snow angels

And when we got some serious snow, we made a snowman and snow ice cream!

We also did an assortment of color pages, and we watched The Snowy Day on DVD. (I got a set of Scholastic DVD's from TJ Max for $7.99- I LOVE them and so do my kids!) We are due to have more snow this week, ugh! I am ready for spring but have had fun doing snow themed activities with the kids!

 

Mischievous

Doesn't he look like he is about to throw that at someone? This kid cracks me up!

 

You Say It's Your Birthday...

Two years ago this sweet little man made his arrival- Happy Birthday Rover!

Valentine Countdown

I am a fan of Valentine's Day. I decorate, I send cards, I bake cookies, I like it. I'm not sure why I like it so much, but I do. Maybe because it helps fill in the weary winter between Christmas and spring? (and seriously, I am so over the winter, that groundhog had better not predict 6 more weeks of winter) This year I knew I wanted to start a new tradition with my kiddos, and I knew I wanted to do an advent style countdown with different activities for each day. This is what I came up with:

I saw something similar to this somewhere in blog-land in the fall (with cute little leaves) but I have no idea where so I can't give credit. I took a styrafoam form, covered it with strips of leftover fabric, and hot glued the clothes-pins on, then I numbered the little hearts, each heart has a corresponding envelope that has the daily activity.

The notes are from the dollar section at Target, and the whole thing is hung on a command hook. (I love them and think they are so useful!) Today we read The Story Of Valentine's Day. All of the activities I have planned are pretty simple, but presenting them to Hannah and David this way makes them so much more memorable and special. (I hope!) Each day we turn the heart over to the blank side of the heart.

So on Valentine's Day, no numbers will be left, just little hearts.  The whole thing took me about 30 minutes to make. Hannah is very excited and if Hannah is excited, David is too!  I hope that these are the things they remembers about their childhoods!