Hey folks! I don't know about you, and
I'm sure this sounds super cliché, but I just feel renewed, for lack
of a better term, once spring rolls around, don't you? I was at a
loss of what to do for school stuff for a couple of weeks and it got
chilly again for awhile, so we just kind of worked on a Doc
McStuffins pack whenever Myka felt like doing school stuff. Now that
it's officially spring and the weather has been getting warmer, I'm
overflowing with ideas! Plus, we've been able to get outside and do
some fun stuff too. Here's a look at some of those things below!
Around our house, we focus more on
celebrating the seasons rather than individual holidays (for the most
part). So, while it might seem weird to some of you, we already
colored eggs and did an Easter egg hunt to celebrate Spring! (Plus,
Myka will be staying with my parents the weekend of Easter, so it
works out!) Except for a couple of the marbled eggs, I left the egg
decorating decisions completely up to Myka, which her bossy side
enjoyed. :) I think she did a good job! We also worked on some spring
crafts the weekend before the spring equinox, but I'll get to those
in a minute.
While Myka was enjoying her Easter egg
hunt (3 times, in fact) with daddy, Ripley decided to wander off and
visit the chickens. After she got bored with them, I let her wander
around the yard for a little bit. She was learning the hard way that
not all “floors” are even/level. ;)
It was so nice out that we decided to
go for a walk down to the creek after all that. Myka and John planted
some potatoes on the bank since the soil is better for them down
there. Plus, the tops are poisonous or don't taste very good (I can't
remember which John said), so we shouldn't have to worry about the
horde of deer that roam through there eating them!
After John showed me an area he and
his dad had cleared and we walked back to the pond, Myka insisted I
play in the creek with her. Everything nowadays with her is, “I
wanna come back here.” She still doesn't seem to understand that we
can go to the creek any time we want! Lol
Here are some of our spring crafts and
school projects Myka and I have going so far. She told me a week or
so ago that she wanted to do birds for school stuff, but I didn't
(and still don't :/) have anything ready for it because I was wanting
to wait until more birds returned. So, I had the idea to put a bird
book together that we can keep track of the birds that we see around
here. Bonus: She loves using papaw's binoculars to look for them. ;)
Soooo the footprint thing in the
window I got the idea for from a fellow blogger. (You can find hers
HERE.) But, I'm lazy and didn't feel like dealing with cutting
out cardboard after all of the other stuff we had done that day, so I
just kind of made a makeshift wreath with the footprints in the
window.
I found the handprint chick idea on
Pinterest. We made ours to celebrate the first day of Spring with. :)
I have all kinds of ideas for
spring-related school stuff, so I'm combining a few “themes” and
using things from each that I think Myka will be interested in. I
decided to make a weather chart for her to keep track of. She even
helped me draw some of the pictures. ;) I thought this would be a
great idea for her for several reasons. 1) She can better judge what
clothing is appropriate to wear for the day. 2) It's kind of
math/science related, and she seems to be more into math than reading
and such. 3) I'm hoping it will help teach her about days and weeks!
One of our “adult” projects we've
been working on is a rabbit hutch. To be honest, it is taking longer
than I had thought it would. Lol Silly me thought we would just throw
it together in an afternoon. While I'm sure you could, that is
totally unfeasible with children...At least for us. But, it's almost
there! Just needs a “roof”.
I've been dying to go for a hike
somewhere besides home, so we went for a visit to our local state
park, McCormick's Creek, Tuesday. It was compromising at its
finest for Myka and me. She got to play on the playground, we had a
picnic lunch, then we went for a walk. She even wanted to go for a
walk and willingly left the playground without a struggle! What?! We
even got to see the pool that we plan on visiting this summer, walked
down to the waterfall, and visited the lobby of the hotel and found a
mini bird book for Myka. It was a good day!
What Spring fun are you up to, or is
it still too chilly where you are to enjoy the outdoors just yet?
