What goes up must come down

Saturdays I plan the next week curriculum and when daddy is home, Creed has a "Daddy and Me" morning. First they went to the Build and Grow Kids Clinic at Lowes to build a fire truck. Then they went to the classic car show. After that they played at the park and stopped for ice cream on the way home. This time is not only productive for me, but crucial for their relationship. To find a Build and Grow Kids Clinic in your area visit: http://www.lowesbuildandgrow.com/pages/default.aspx, to register your child for free. There you can build a wooden project together and they'll receive a free apron and goggles the first time they go. With every completed project your child will receive a patch to iron on their apron that correlates with the completed project. Be careful to use a warm iron, I burned through the apron on the first try! I was able to put a patch over the biggest part of the hole and cut out the middle pocket all together.

When the Elephant Walks craft

When the elephant walks … is a beautifully illustrated book by Keikio Kasza. We finished the elephant craft today after nap time. I didn't really like the one that was in the curriculum so I searched for a much cuter one online. We were playing catch-up from this past week which was really relaxed. 

What goes up, must come down - Issac Newton

I save odds and ends. Sometimes I feel like a rat packer. I've got a spare bedroom I call, "The Pit." When I clean the house, anything that doesn't belong in whatever room gets moved there. My husband is in the process of building floor to ceiling shelves, with a window seat in the middle! I can't wait to organize it! I want all of the books in the house in the same place, except for Creed's bookcase of course., which is in his room. I have no idea what's in there, but treasures are waiting to be found! One of the things I saved was packaging from a box I had opened earlier this year. The pieces looked like ramps and I knew someday they would come in handy. Today was that day! Creed learned about the law of gravity today, inasmuch me explaining how gravity is what pulls everything to the earth. The first five years of life is the most rapid phase of a child's development. This is when the brain grows the most, with 85% of children's core brain structure by age four, which provides the foundation for future health, academic success and social and emotional well-being. He didn't talk for such a long time and then after he turned three he started talking in sentences! These past couple of months have been amazing. He must have spent those three years absorbing all of that information. We had fun experimenting which objects would roll down the ramps and some that would not. Some were round, some were flat, some were too light, too heavy, too slippery or too rough. Fun, fun, fun! It's amazing that cardboard could provide this much entertainment and learning!