Ice Cream Day!

I've been totally inspired by a college friend who creates these amazing theme days for her kids. I had been doing some small preschool type stuff with the girls on and off and decided to make it a little bit more exciting by doing my own theme days. They don't seem to be quite as elaborate as my friend's, but it works, and the kids love it. I try and plan one every other week. Each week is something, either a theme day or an adventure. But I'd been struggling on my theme day for a week and kept postponing it, till my good friend suggested ice cream day, and started pouring out ideas, so I went with it! I built them an ice cream parlor (cardboard boxes are great for EVERYTHING!), and we did a banana split craft where they got to paint with chocolate and strawberry syrup and cool whip! Then we made baggie ice cream, which turned out more like baggie milkshakes, and the kids loved it anyway. There was a felt board rhyme that I made little felt ice cream cones to go with and a science experiment was planned, but it wasn't hot outside, so melting ice cream on different surfaces wasn't executed. If all I had done was the ice cream parlor, they would have been just as happy - it lasted the whole week long!

Death Toll 490

That's just a rough number, and will continue to grow as we commit slug genocide at the Smith Home. That's right. If you're a slug, you're not welcome here, and we WILL remove you by force. Or rather by death. So keep that slimy foot on someone else's plants.

Last night we conducted our 3rd slug hunt which resulted in 300 deaths. We celebrated by burning them. It was disgusting. We'll be drowning them next time .

Sugar and Spice...

this is what little girls are made of...
and also a little of this...
Flowers for mama and "my very best pet potato bug that I always wanted" bring me smiles.

I Like These People - A Lot.

Updating My Slow Poke Life

I've been SLOW to do anything these days. Can I blame it on the weather? Cause I'm gonna. First it's freezing, so my body doesn't realize it's not hibernation time anymore. Then, the crazy rain/sun cycles. Today we had no less than 10 bouts of showers including the Florida like downpour at 1pm. (Which by the way, just happens to be the time it pours in Florida the time of year we visit) Every time I see it's finally ready to go outside, and I get my shoes on it starts raining again and I sit back down...it really wears a person out! Talk about crying wolf! And then, talk about not being a North westerner! I mean, I won't melt! Silliness. So anyway.

If you didn't know, which you already do-we went to Maine in May to see Auntie Beth and Uncle Kyle. We enjoyed it so much that we're thinking of moving there. Not really. But we will keep trying to get the Aunt and Uncle to move here. We keep trying to entice them with our weather. (Hmm...maybe we should switch tactics?)

Notice Maddie's "gloves"?

Can you tell what her favorite "flower" is?

I took hardly any pictures - and none of us with Kyle and Beth. At least I got 1 good one of them.