Easter Egg Hunt #2

Virtual Easter Basket & 3 Awards!

Jenny @ Our Nifty Notebook sent me this virtual Easter basket! It's probably a good thing it's not real, because I don't have very good willpower against that much chocolate!

Hershey's is partnering with bloggers to donate $5,000 to the Children's Miracle Network!  They are hosting a blog hop and for each blog entry, Hershey's will donate $10 to the Children's Miracle Network.  

Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop Rules

1. Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.

2. Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger — you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want!

3. Link back to the person who gave you an Easter Basket.
4. Let each person you are giving a Virtual Basket know you have given them a Basket.

5. Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop in the comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
6. Hershey’s is donating $10 per blog participating in the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to a total of $5000 by blog posts written by April 4, 2010). 

7. Please note that only one blog post per blog url will count towards the donation.

I also received this award from Keeping Up w/Kelly. 

And this award from Growing Your Grass Greener. 

AND this award from The Busy Woman's Guide to Surviving Motherhood..

I am passing this virtual Easter basket (AND ALL of the awards) on to:

Jamie @ This is Me; Consequently 
Mandy @ Life's About a Dream 
Kat @ Seeking Sanity 
Jessica @ Muthering Heights
Christen @ Spark's Notes
Caroline @ Caroline's Thoughts
Lisa @ Nanny Diaries
Susan @ Chasing Marcus 
Brandi @ The Life of a New Mommy
Danielle @ Humes, Party of Three
Our Country Road
The Ramblings & Adventures of a SAHM
Life with My Giggly Girls
Fun Frugal Mommy 
Jolly Green Mommy
Musings of the Rocker Mom
A Modern Day Ricky & Lucy


Whew! I know that's a lot of tags but if all of you make a blog post about it, then that's $170 donated to the Children's Miracle Network. So PLEASE create a blog post about this by Sunday, April 4th. It's for charity!

Tot School: Spring theme

Jackson is 21 months old. 

Whew! We had a crazy busy week.  I had a lot planned that we didn't even get to try.  Jackson had 2 sessions of speech therapy, a doctor's appointment, 3 park playdates, another Easter egg hunt, a McDonald's playdate AND we celebrated his dad's birthday. 

Books:
Ready for Spring by Marthe Jocelyn
So Many Butterflies! (a Dora book) by Lara Bergen
The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Kate Toms
Raindrop Plop! by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
I'm a seed by Jean Marzollo

Arts &Crafts

 Handprint Butterfly

Do-a-dots (Jackson is really starting to like doing these!)

Snack - blueberry muffins in butterfly and flower muffin tins

Matching- I printed off these butterflies,  attached some felt to the back, and made a matching game to play on our felt board. Jackson liked putting the pieces together, but wasn't really worried about matching them by color.

Practical Life

After we read "I'm a seed," I took Jackson outside and let him help me water the plants. 

Music -Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring (click the link to listen and/or download)

Outdoor Play

We attempted to fly a kite. It didn't really go so well! 

Plus Jackson was too busy trying to chase the ducks into the pond to pay attention to us!

And like I said, we went to the park A LOT! 

He loves watching the boats on the waterfront!

Happy Birthday Jason!

Jason's birthday is actually Saturday but he's going to be working like crazy this weekend, so we celebrated Thursday night.

I made carrot cake cupcakes with cheese cream icing and mini snickerdoodle cookies on top.  We ate it with Cold Stone's cake batter ice cream. 3 of Jason's favorite desserts!

The new TV was Jason's birthday present- a 65 in LCD screen. It's freaking huge! Jackson colored him a birthday card and promptly tore it to pieces. Isn't he sweet?

Overheard in the Grocery Store

I was using the self-checkout the other day when a little boy (maybe 10 yrs old) came up to the cashier.
This was their conversation:

Her: Oh honey, do you need help finding your mom?
Him: No, I don't have a mom.
Her: Oh, well, um, who are you here with?
Him: My dad. I don't have a mom because he doesn't have a husband.
Her: You mean he doesn't have a wife.
Him: Do you have a husband?
Her: No I don't.
Him: (smiling widely) Do you want to meet my dad?

I just started cracking up.  I wonder if this was the boy's genius idea to get a mom, or if the dad sent him over!

WW: Easter egg hunt

We had our first Easter egg hunt with our toddler group.  Jackson wasn't really that interested!

Jackson's New Monkey Room

 

I've mentioned before that when we moved in, Jackson's room was bright pink. We finally got around to painting it!

Before 

(and yes his room was hideously messy when I took these photos. oops!)

and yes there was a towel covering his window. 

we hadn't gotten around to putting the real curtains up yet.

After 

The walls are arugula green.  

We got this super cute monkey vinyl wall decal from Quote the Walls. 

I took this old black TV stand ....

and turned it into shelves for Jackson's stuffed animals. 

What do you think?

Tot School: St. Patrick's Day

Jackson is 21 months old. 

Books: My First Book of Colors (Crayola)
Green by Patricia Stockland
The Luckiest Leprechaun: A Tail Wagging Tale of Friendship by Justine Korman

Art: 

Green clover stamps 

 

L is for Leprechaun 

 

Blue and yellow makes green fingerpainting

 

Snack: lemon jello 

Matching shapes 

 

Fine Motor Skills 

Making a rainbow with fruit loops (he got tired of it quickly)

Working with clothespins (he didn't like this activity very much)

Music class

We went to a music class at the local library on St. Patrick's Day.We sang Irish songs, the kids played with shakers, and the musician played the flute. It was a fun time.

Non-themed / Fine Motor Skills

Piggy bank (a $2 consignment store find!)

 

Beads