Bubbles

Little Guy loves to blow bubbles. On a recent trip to the dollar store, we picked up a new bubble blowing kit.  Little Guy loved it! An added bonus was that he was much more successful at blowing bubbles out of these big wands than he usually is with the regular wands!

What great finds have you made at the dollar store?

Our garden...an update

Remember way back in June when we planted our vegetable garden?  Here's an update to how it looks now!

Our garden!

Daddy made the tomato cages out of PVC pipes.  We didn't get the cages in until kinda late, so that is why a couple of the tomato plants never got very tall.

What we have harvested so far:

• several cucumbers
• 2 big tomatoes
• a dozen-ish cherry tomatoes
• a handful of yellow pear tomatoes
• 2 jalapenos
• 2 orange snack peppers

Our first cucumber!

Our peppers, a cucumber, and a few tomatoes that made it into the house.

We have a lot of green tomatoes on the plants still, so I hope that warm weather holds out until they ripen!

Little Guy has loved helping to pick things from the garden, especially the cherry tomatoes.  When we pick them, we can usually get a small handful at a time.  Little Guy has been loving this so much that the tomatoes usually don't make it into the house...he's eaten them all before we get inside! 

Our sunflower plants finally bloomed! Remember way back in May when Little Guy and I started these plants out as seeds?  They have just grown and grown, and now are taller than all of our other plants and me! 

Our sunflower.

How is your garden?

More animals

Remember the tiger that Little Guy made? It was time to make some more animals.

I recently picked up some scissors for Little Guy to use, and he loves them! They have a spring to help them open back up, so Little Guy just has to practice the squeezing part of cutting for now.  So our animals are (partially) cut by him.
 

We started with another tiger. Little Guy cut all the stripes.

What a cute tiger!

Then we made another stripey animal...a zebra!

Do you like our model?

Look at all the stripes he cut!

Adding the googley eyes (they might be his favorite part)!

Our zebra!

The other animal we made was a lion. Little Guy has recently decided he doesn't like to paint, so mama had to do all the painting. I painted a red paper plate (left over from his birthday party) yellow. We worked together to cut the fringe for the lion's mane. After adding googley eyes and a puff for a nose, we drew on a smile!

Mommy, I don't want to paint.

Our lion!

What animals have you made lately?

Very Hungry Caterpillar Felt Board

Remember the Very Hungry Caterpillar busy bag I wrote about here?  Well, I decided that Little Guy and I needed to give it a test drive before we took it out somewhere.

We started with reading the story.  Then we pulled out the felt pieces and laid them on the ground.  As I read the story again, Little Guy put them up on our felt board.  It was a fun process!

First comes the caterpillar.

Add an apple and some pears.

Can you tell that Mommy put up the strawberries and oranges?

Look at all this food!

Yea!  All done!

This felt story was a big hit!  I can't wait to have more!

What stories have you made out of felt?