I planted garden seeds with the kids today. We want to involve them in the process from planting to harvesting later in the summer, but if I’m being honest it was rather painful ;-) It was messy, took an insanely long time and I’m sure a handful of seeds didn’t end up where they were supposed to. Ben was fascinated with how small the lettuce seeds were. Cassidy just liked dumping dirt in the holes. The kids had fun though and it’ll be neat to have them a part of it all.
Over winter break we met my mom at the Brockport library for a preschooler dance party. I’d never been to that library before but Brockport is about halfway for each of us. I was really impressed with their children’s librarian and department. Ben had a ton of fun dancing and playing while Cassidy was just content to watch and look at books.
The kids and I made flubber! We used this recipe and it actually turned out pretty good. Other crafty projects haven’t ;-) Ben loved the mixing and squishing. Cassidy, not so much.
Cassidy is a year and a half old! She’s such a bright eyed, bushy tailed, full of personality little girl. Loves books, duckies, her puppy stuffed animal and her daddy. She runs to the stairs and squeals “Daddy, daddy, hi daddy!” when Andy gets home from work, it’s the cutest thing. She said her first sentence to him too, “Bye bye daddy.”
She still does her fair share of screaming to get her point across but has said a bunch of other things: Eat, Ow, Please (although it sounds like Me), Fish, Dance, All Done, Book, Yay and Bye Bye Potty (although it comes out Bye Bye Tee).
We have started potty training, I didn’t really want to (haha, call me lazy). She kept bringing me diapers and would whine at me to change her though. So we’ve been trying undies for part of the day and she’s been doing pretty good. Some accidents but a lot of successful potties too. She claps for herself and says “Yay!” when she goes, it’s pretty cute.
Her and Ben like/annoy/like/annoy/like each other. They can get along so well, play nicely and share toys. And then I can head downstairs to switch laundry and I hear screaming and crying. Love the sweet moments though and trying to praise them for those and foster that brother/sister love relationship ;-)
We went to visit my friend Lexi down the road today. I was just planning on getting some eggs but asked if the kiddos could tag along too to see their chickens. The “Girls” as they’re called, have an awesome little penthouse coop built by Lexi’s husband. Complete with several nifty add ons (he’s an engineer).
Ben loved feeding them and Cassidy kept waving, smiling and saying “Hi, hi!”
The kids got to pet them too. Lexi’s son even brought one over to us since Ben kept scaring them away.
Thanks for letting us visit!
