I am thankful that my sister Michelle and her fiance Jared came to visit us last weekend!
Thankful Thursday
Geodes with Jared
We bought some “crack your own Geodes” and planned for the girls to do them with Jared when he and Michelle came to visit. We put them in some old socks and Jared helped the girls go after it. Before we started I asked the girls to guess what color crystals might be inside. Nadia said blue and Amelie said white. They actually had the reverse, but very light in color 🙂
This was a quick and cute little thing for the girls to do. They enjoyed looking through all the broken pieces and seeing which ones they liked the best. We put all the big pieces into ziplocs for the girls to keep and look at in the future.
Thankful Thursday
- I am thankful for sweet Dani having a glowing report at her 3 month post cast removal check up!
- For the language explosion Dani has had in the last 7-10 days. She is saying all kinds of things and we can understand her. Yeah!
- For how excited Dani gets to see me when she has been away from me, even if it just 20 minutes or so.
- For how well Nadia is doing in taekwondo and Amelie in dance. They have both found something they really like and we are blessed to be able to nurture that.
2014 Thankful Pumpkin
Last year we wrote on a real pumpkin, but this year the one I bought started to rot because I left it outside. Whoops. Then when I tried to find another pumpkin to replace it they were sold out at 4 different stores. This inspired me to turn it into a craft that all the girls could help with. And we could actually save it unlike the one one threw away last year. The girls had fun and Dani kept saying, “I di eh! I di eh!” (I did it!) It so easy that you can do it too!
Supplies: Contact Paper, Tissue Paper, Sharpie, Scissors
Step 1 : draw the outline of pumpkin on clear contact paper
Step 2: I gave all three girls a mix of orange and yellow tissue paper. Then they just put them on the sticky part. I put a few pieces of green construction paper at the top.
Step 3: Cut out and peel another piece of contact paper and place it on top as smoothly as you can with the help of the kid 😉
Step 4: Hang it up like a suncatcher and start writing what you are thankful for.
As Nadia and Amelie would say, “Easy Peasy. Lemon Squeasy.”