Tot School Pet Week - Part I

Our son recently started a new speech therapy program where he attends a language lab for 3 hours a week that follows a set theme (doctors office, garden, farm) each week while working intensely with the kids on their language.

I fell in love with this technique the first time we tried it because it gives our son more real-world language and BONUS gives me a great starting spot to plan out more activities and learning at home.

This week, they will be focusing on pet stores/shop so I planned some activities over the weekend and set a super small budget for buying a few items. I already have a huge stash of felt to work with and am pretty savvy about whipping together any vocabulary/number/ABC cards that we could use. The calendar below shows a rough run-down of the activities we may (or may not) get to.

I'm pretty loose structure wise and feel that if we get a couple of things done throughout the day with our going out activities (speech, gymnastics, story time at library, park time, church meetings) and my husbands business calls (work from home bliss with a toddler) then we are doing pretty good.

2018 Goals

Life in our quiet neck of the suburbs seems to always be busy and my garden goals for 2018 are no different.

The first thing I did this year (like every year for the past three) is to pick up some new chicks for our flock. Unfortunately, last year, our girls didn't survive through the summer as we earned a new neighborhood chicken hawk AND an owl. With the combination of those two and the fact that our birds are stubborn about going into their coop at night, we ended up with 2 survivors out of 6. So this year, I decided we were going big or going home. We got 6 new chicks and, until recently, all have survived in our backyard.

Quiet Book Finger Puppets

Since giving birth to my son, I've turned a lot of my crafting attention to creating quiet books and other items that he would enjoy. I made a lot of the items in his nursery when I was pregnant and wanted to continue to expand into things that he could actually play with. I stumbled upon Quiet Books and became hooked!

Painting a New Pantry

I did this project many months ago and am excited to be sharing it today. My mother-in-law moved last summer and was getting rid of some furniture. Unfortunately my husband and I drove our small car the 6 hours to her town so we were only able to take a few things back home. Luckily, I was able to snag two of these utility pantry's, disassemble them, and bring them home in the trunk.

Hiatus Over

Wow, the last year and a half have had so many changes (both joyous and heartbreaking) for our family. I left the blog rather rapidly after getting married when life caught up to us in our house and am just now returning to it --deeming the hiatus over!

Alaska: Ketchikan

Our final port was Ketchikan!