April Shower of Photos :: Day 21
This morning someone woke up early and decided to help herself to She was loving it… The other kids, not so much.
(They were wanting some more too.)
April Shower of Photos :: Day 20
Today was Chiquita’s 3rd Birthday! In fact, right now it is only minutes away from when she was actually born. We had a wonderful day, but I am too tired to share it with you now… I’m off to bed–even though this is early for me!! Hopefully I will have a chance tomorrow to post a few highlights. Before I go though, I wanted to let you all know that Chiquita LOVED her cake!
Garden of the Good Shepherd ~ Week 5
We are still loving using The Garden of the Good Shepherd: A Sticker Calendar to Count the Fifty Days of Easter
Anyhow, here are a few ideas for this weeks theme:
The Tree of Life’s Leaves : Read Revelation 22:1-5
- Make a Four Seasons Craft
- Make a Leaf Stained Glass Window
- Make Leaf Shaped Cookies
- Since we will be celebrating Chiquita’s birthday, we will just read a couple extra books before including: Why Do Leaves Change Color?
The Tree of Life’s Flowers : Read Isaiah 55:12-13
- Make a Floral Spiritual Bouquet for someone
- Make Flower Pot Cupcakes
- Read Planting a Rainbow
- Teach the Kids the Nursery Rhyme “My Garden”
My Garden
This is my garden
Extend one hand forward, palm up
I’ll rake it with care,
Make raking motion on palm with 3 fingers of other hand
And then some flower seeds
Planting motion
I’ll plant in there.
The sun will shine
Make circle with hands
And the rain will fall,
Let fingers flutter down to lap
My garden will blossom
(Cup hands together; extend upward slowly)
And grow straight and tall.
The Tree of Life’s Fruit : Read Galatians 5:22-26
- Have Ambrosia for dessert since Ambrosia means “deathless.”
- Complete the Fruit of the Spirit Maze
- Make Fruit Kabobs with each piece of fruit representing one of the “Fruits of the Holy Spirit.” (for a few suggestions on which fruit to use, click here and scroll to the bottom.)
The Owl : Read Psalm 102:6-12
- One of these Owl Crafts
- Make this Awesome Owl Snack
- Read Owl Moon
- Color a picture of an Owl
- Copy work: A Wise Old Owl Nursery Poem! (Looks like I am on a nursery rhyme kick this week!)
A Wise Old OwlA wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird?
The Olive Tree : Read Genesis 8:6-11
- Use Oil to make a Stained Glass Window with our Easter Coloring Page from Fenestrae Fidei
- Serve Olives as a snack!
The Palm Tree : Read John 12:12-17
- I just LOVE these Tropical Luau Cupcakes! You make the palm tree using pretzels and kiwi… Aren’t they CUTE?? They look really easy too!
- Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
and make Palm Tree Cookies
- April 25th is also the feast of St. Mark, so maybe we will make half Tropical Luau Cupcakes and half Lion Cupcakes!
Roses and Lilies : Read Song of Songs 2:1-7
- Make Lily Sandwiches and Candy Roses
- Read The Rose in My Garden
- Plant a garden (I won’t be doing this… But you could!)
- Begin making Marian May Baskets to fill and give out on May day!
I haven’t decided just which of these ideas we will be doing each day, but I thought I would share my ideas with you all just the same. I am anxious to see what Matilda comes up with since this weeks theme was HARD for me!
If any of you know any great snacks, crafts or activities for the above themes, I’d love to hear them!
Ladybug Cake
A super sweet person convinced me to try out cake decorating! I was going to wait till next week and start with making a cake for the feast of St. George, but after having so much fun making cupcakes, I thought I would see what I could do for Chiquita’s 3rd birthday tomorrow. For her birthday, I got her a darling tea set, and a ladybug costume, so I thought it would be fun to make a ladybug cake to go along with the theme. I looked at a couple pictures online and got to work. It was totally stressful, and yet so much fun all at the same time!
In may not have turned out perfect–far from it actually! But, I think Chiquita is going to love it!!
April Shower of Photos :: Day 19
Today was a very traumatic day for the boys.
Mr. Peter Nemo died.
It hit Captain hard. He is such a sweet, sensitive boy, and he has never really been faced with death. He has been to a few funerals in his life, but not of anyone he has known, and so he has yet to feel the pain of losing someone.
He noticed first that his fish had stopped swimming. Oh no… I had thought he was doing better. Then it got worse, since the other fish started biting at him… Do fish do this??
Anyhow, Captain sobbed. He hid under his blankets, and I tried to comfort him. It is ok to be sad. I’m glad that my boys are still sensitive enough to care. They are such wonderful kids.
He said, “He was my very first pet, and he didn’t live long at all!”
Then it was Rascal’s turn to be upset. He was sad for his older brother, and mad at his own fish. Through his tears, he told me, “Mom, we need to rename all the fish “Bullies” since they were mean to Captains fish!”
After dinner, the boys had a private burial with daddy. Incense and all. Captain decided that he wanted to bury Mr. Peter Nemo near the pond, since fish like to swim.
When they came back in the house, I tried to cheer them up with some hot cocoa and cake, since it was SO cold outside. (It SNOWED today! In APRIL!) It helped… a little.
Well, I better get back to finishing Chiquita’s cake… It’s getting LATE! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!
God Bless!
The Tooth Fairy
This Morning Rascal lost his very first tooth!!! He is so excited!
Although, he was a bit concerned when he realized that tomorrow is Sunday.
You see, the tooth fairy forgot once when Capitan lost a tooth doesn’t work on Sunday. I reassured him that since it was his very first tooth, the tooth fairy might just make an exception!
Thank goodness that daddy the tooth fairy is back in town!
Captain lost another tooth this past week when hubby was out of town. On top of that, our sweet little 2 year old (who will be three tomorrow!!!) lost it! Before bed, I helped Captain write a note to the tooth fairy explaining the “missing” tooth. However, I woke in the morning to Captain standing there next to my bed waiting for me to wake up. As soon as I did, he said, “Mom, the tooth fairy forgot!” (Me to myself: OH NO!!! ARGH!!) Me, to Captain, “Are you sure? Why don’t you go to the bathroom and then we will check!” He said ok, and I quickly transformed into Houdini–I jumped out of bed, ran out to my desk for my purse, I only had 2 pennies and a $5… I grabbed the $5 (lucky kid!), ran to his bedroom, grabbed the note (which slipped out of my hand and is still under his bed–which reminds me, I better get it before he finds it!), I slipped the $5 under his pillow, ran back to my room and jumped back into bed, just as he walks out of the bathroom. It had to be less than 2 minutes all together. Whew! Anyhow, I then “woke up” and got up, and together we went to his room. He looked under his pillow… “OH! It must have been too dark earlier for me to see… Or maybe the tooth fairy was running late!” I replied, “Oh! Wonderful!”
I’m such a bad–totally forgetful–mom!!!!
Maybe we better start letting the tooth fairy know that we have a tooth instead of just hoping he’ll show up! What do you think??
I’ve always been told that I’m a nut…
You Are a Pistachio |
 You are funky, freaky, and a total character. You’re very different than anyone you know. There’s no way you’re changing the way you are… Which is good, because no one wants you to change. |
HT: Trina, who really does shine!
Flowers to Cheer You Up!
Kathy from The Daily Grotto recently sent me these beautiful flowers. Thank you so much Kathy!! That was so sweet of you… I just LOVE getting flowers.
She said I must send them along to 2-3 other bloggers, so in friendship I send these beautiful flowers to:
Amy from Knit Together in Love
(Who recently found out that she is pregnant!! Congratulations!)
Christine from The Simple Life
(Who is celebrating a birthday!)
Eileen from Eileen on Him…at least I try!
(It’s so tough when your hubby’s out of town! Hang in there!)
Please pass the bouquet on to other bloggers.
I hope you ALL have a very Blessed Weekend!!
April Shower of Photos :: Day 18
After Mass today, we went to Cold Stone to celebrate a very sweet girl’s birthday!! We had a blast!
Anyone have a good caption for these pictures?
April Shower of Photos :: Day 17
Well, it looks like Jennifer and Jamie–no, not my sisters Jennifer and Jamie!— were thinking along the same lines as Captain. He couldn’t decide whether he wanted to name his fish Peter or Nemo, so he started calling him Mister in the meantime… (I wonder where he gets his indecisiveness from!? 😉 Surely not me!) He finally decided on Mr. Peter Nemo! Try saying that five times fast!
I am a little worried about our dear Mr. Peter Nemo.
Fish are new to me. The lady at the store gave us general directions, and made sure we understood NOT to feed him them too much. We followed all her directions, but Captain’s fish just doesn’t seem to be doing too well.
I didn’t notice, until I was on the phone with a friend of mine and I was asking her questions about fish. (Her boys have had many in the past.) She said if their tail end starts sticking up in the air and they start floating to the top, its a bad sign. I glanced over my shoulder and sure enough that was exactly what Mr. Peter Nemo was doing… and still is.
After watching the fish for awhile, Captain asked me why his fish wasn’t swimming all over like the other fishies. I told him, that maybe his fish wasn’t feeling too good. He asked if his fish was going to die. I told him, someday he will, but lets hope he gets better. Poor Captains eyes filled with tears as he smiled at me and said, “I hope Mr. Peter Nemo gets better!” Me too Captain… me too.
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