Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

I am finally finding time to sit down at the computer to blog.  It has been a few weeks. It feels like longer. We went on a two week vacation to visit family in Utah and then were busy with unpacking when we got home. The most distracting thing, but best thing, was the proposal. Jerry asked me to marry him! Ahhhh! I am so excited!  I spent a good week wedding planning, pintresting, and talking to friends about the upcoming wedding.  I want to continue burying myself in wedding plans but know I have responsibilities and I need to get back to daily activities with the kids. Before we left for Utah I made a Beach small world play/ sand sensory bin. Since we have returned it has been played with multiple times.  Each of my little dragons chose what toys they wanted to play with in the bin.  Athena a mini lady, Spencer a monster truck.  No surprises there. :)                  ...

Here is our weekly activity review... Monday we spent the day at the park. It was such a nice day outside so we gathered up some balls and the Frisbee and headed to the park. I wanted to get some learning in so the kids and I came up with a game to play where we could have fun and learn at the same time. The game was Ball Tag. The rules were to throw the ball at someone and if you hit them they had to go to the 'dungeon' and count to 20.  After the kids were counting to 20 so fast the were saying it in one breath we practiced counting by 2's and then by 5's. There was a lot of running around too for exercise. Tuesday we reviewed the story of Abram and Lot  and sang songs.    Athena is retelling the story here.  On the board I wrote the message 'Families support each other'. We used the capital G to represent God.  Athena requested that Lot be represented by Mickey mouse.  The giraffe represented Lots heard. I don't have bible s...