February 2012 Stuff

Once again, no particular order to the pictures.  Just a few reminders of what we did this month.

Grandma sent these little bear kits.  The boys loved making them.  They decided to give them to Miss Estelle, their swimming teacher.



These are the valentines that Ryan gave to his friends at our Valentine's Day party.  Not a great job coloring the flower part, but he had a lot of fun. :)




I let Justin choose what kind of valentines he wanted to make and he chose these out of several online possibilities. I regret giving him the choice.  What a pain!  I ended up havng to do all of the folding and gluing because they are pillow box alligators,




We made valentine mailboxes at a previous playdate.  Ryan (left) and Justin (right) had fun creating them.



Probably the same books as last year, but here are the valentine books we read this month.

Justin working on a valentine bear photo frame project.  Tanja had purchased these from Oriental Trading Company and had plenty for everyone!



Here are Ryan and Justin's finshed bear frames.  I took the picture of the playgroup on a previous day so we would have a picture to put in our frame.  Getting a decent picture of seven kids is not easy.





We ate heart cookies, red heart jell-o, apples, bugles, and other treats for our snack.  Grandma Pat had sent enough valentine cups, plates, and napkins.



Justin and Ryan have been really into courses.  I think they are meant to be race tracks or obstacle course type things.  Various cars, action figures, or other items try their best with the challenges put in their paths.  In this picture I outlined a course for each boy using blue masking tape.  They set up obstacles as they wanted.  The tape forced them to stay in their own spaces rather than have their courses overlap and cause fighting.



The boys go through SO much paper with their various projects.  I am glad that they don't mind using the back side of previously used paper.  This is a rainbow that Ryan made.



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Justin made this for me to do.  I had to cut out the objects on the line and glue them in place.  At least I could figure out how to do this one.  So many of his things are hard to understand.

 

Ryan was very proud of his giraffe.  The boys built a lot with Duplo since I put their legos in time out.  That's what happens when Mommy has to pick them up!



Ryan was more anxious to eat than to graph.  Those valentine candy hearts are pretty tasty. :)

Hard to see with the glare of the sun, but here are the finished valentine conversation heart graphs.  Ryan was very proud of his work.

We went to the train/transportation muesum at the train station.  Basically it contained things that they used in the past at the train station--typewriters, phones, ticket punchers...  I think it would have been a five minute visit if we had gone alone, but we went with Leah and her mom and the boys thought it was the best museum ever.  Guess a lot depends upon the company.