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Tulips!!

It was an absolutely perfect day for visiting the tulip fields.  The flowers were beautiful, there's just something amazing about seeing all the beautiful rows of colors.  Today, the color was really beautiful too because it was perfectly overcast (which makes for great pictures too).  It wasn't windy, rainy, or cold.  This is the first day we've had nice enough weather that I've wanted to brave it, and it was perfect!  It was still a little muddy and wet, but still so nice.  I had fun taking pictures (I took 116!), but unfortunately I could never get a very good one of all 3 kids.  Oh well, enjoy, there are a lot of pictures in this post!

Aric just kept saying "petty, petty" and pointing.  It was so cute!

They walked up this row for a ways, and then came back.  This field was so neat, it looked like candy with all the different colors.

April brought her AG doll.  I think her doll had a good time, and she was the only one that didn't get muddy.

Aric fell in the mud, he DIDN'T like that.  But, here's a picture after he got over it.  Everytime he looked down he would worry though, and say "uh oh, dirty".  I just had to keep reminding him that we would wash it.

Aric getting excited about the bright orange and whites!

We found a few broken off tulips, so we snapped a picture of this one.  You can't pick the tulips though, so we put it back.

Love the big wooden shoes!

Lookin' at these pretty blue things.  Guess I should have looked at the tag to see what they were.

Aric counting the pretty blue things.  And, yes, he carried that blue car almost the whole time, it even got a little muddy too.

Aaron had fun in the mud, he didn't accidently fall.  He was dancing in the mud!  Ha ha, it was pretty fun!

The duckie races!  I couldn't get Aric away from this.  Here are both boys pumping the water.

Aric liked to put the duckies in the gutter, and someone would pump the water down.

Go duckie go!

He still wanted to play!  We were all ready to go do something else, I think he's telling me no right here.

Saying peek-a-boo to the little tulip girl.

I just love this one, he could almost fit himself in that giant wooden shoe!  So cute!

This is the other one I had a hard time getting Aric out of, the little play house in the garden area.  It has some play food and pans, and a little kitchen.  He loved it.  So while he played in there, just around the bush on the left the older kids played badmitton.

Here's a close up of the inside of the house.  See his muddy pants, it dried!

As soon as we left in the car, it started sprinkling on the windshield.  Perfect timing, I'm glad it waited until we left.  We are definitely going to go back, we got the season pass because we usually go more than once.  And, just incase you are wanting more information about this tulip festival, it's at the wooden shoe tulip farm.

Dear sky,

"S" is for Sun by Aric 19 months

"K" is for Kite by Aaron March 2010

 "Y" is for Yellow by Aric April 2010

Dear SKY,

We would love to see you soon without your gray cloudy cover up and pouring rain.  We miss seing your blue face, and the sunshine that you so proudly hold high.  We wouldn't mind flying some kites, or possibly sitting out and watching the birds take flight in your windy breeze.  We hope to see you soon, but we understand it's Spring and so you must do your job by showering us with lots and lots of rain drops.  So, for now we just dream...

Last post....

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Coloring easter eggs

We had 2 parts to coloring our Easter eggs.  First we dyed them, then the next day we decorated them with some different dye that was more like paint.  We found the paint dye kits at the dollar store. 

Here are the eggs after first dunking:

April is getting ready to paint and decorate:

After we were all set up we decorated with paints and stickers, they really loved this part.  Here's Aaron with one of his eggs:

April's completed eggs:

Aaron's completed eggs.  His designs ended up running all together to make them look like they were just dyed again.  I love the colors that he made, more browns and dark greens.  They look pretty neat.

This is how he got the nice looking browns and greens, by rubbing his hands all around the egg:

Okay, this isn't really related to egg coloring except that it has to do with eggs.  This is the one and only workbox I had that was interesting for April this week.  She loved it and it was fun.  It was an Easter egg Sudoku puzzle.  It was a little bit of a challenge for her, but it really helped her to find new ways to solve the puzzle by having the little egg cut outs to manipulate in her hand.  Unfortunately, I cannot share this puzzle as it was purchased from Currclick--the April book bag, so you'll have to go buy it.  I think it was a fun idea though.

This will probably be the last workbox idea I will share for a very long time.  I will not be doing workboxes anymore, a hard decision, but I think a good one.  We are still homeschooling, but I needed to be free from the stress of worrying about boxes and what's in them.  I kind of feel a great relief, and looking forward to a more relaxed homeschool day.

Homeschooling one day at a time--as long as it takes!

Some Peeps fun

When I saw how much fun was had over at Katherine Marie photography with peeps, we just had to give it a try.  We didn't do much, and of course the kids ate a few, okay, way too many, but it was fun.

Cute boxes:

Basket treats to share with our neighbors:

The basket on the left is the one that April made, and the one on the right is the one I made.

I quickly threw together this sensory box with some peeps, and some easter images from one of our decorating kits.

This was my favorite idea from Katherine Marie though, using the peeps boxes as a frame to hold artwork.  All 3 kids colored a peeps picture and we put them each into different colored boxes:

A sorting tray for sorting the cute little bunnies too!

Homeschooling one day at a time--as long as it takes!