past few weeks....

Hello I have not posted anything in a few weeks. We are doing good and keeping cool. Its is nice and hot here already, like it is everywhere right now. Hitting record breaking temps for April and don't even want to think about July and August.

Alexa and her soon to be flowers we hope!! This pic was take weeks ago so i need to take new one they are tall now but still no flowers :(

At the lake here in Jal. There are lots of ducks and small trout in this lake. Ducks are friendly and love to be fed bread. 

Easter Craft for our Window. 

Elmo Show

At the Elmo Show with her energy snack!! :)

Great Seats!!

feeding ducks, this one is blind actually. he has hard time but we make sure he gets fed plenty. 

She loves feeding them. 

My Little Dirt Princess!!

I believe I have the perfect combination of a Princess Girlie Girl and Play in the Dirt Nature Girl. Alexa has always loved dresses, she prefers to wear one everyday no matter what the weather. She says we can always wear leggings, or tights and a sweater or shirt underneath if needed, But she must wear a dress,not jeans!!!! She insist on having her toenails and fingernails painted once a week or more. But still loves her rock collecting, and digging in the dirt and sometimes laying in it. So there she is in her ruffly dress, with her freshly painted nails, sometimes in flip flops, sandals, or dress up princess heels sitting in the dirt digging with her fingernails. Yes Fingernails. Im not sure whether we paint her nails to cover up the dirt in between showering and nail trimming or if its just her girlie way.
We did go shopping the other day and got a new sand pail and shovel. So this will help with the nails. :) I cant complain though I have the perfect mix of girlieness with a side of tomboy. Pictures to come!!

Going to See Elmo Make Music LIVE

Yay, tickets purchased for Elmo Live, Alexa is thrilled. I was surprised that it was coming to Hobbs, Nm. She Loves Abbey!! Guess we need to start our outfit creation got floor seats third or fourth row back right in center. Im sure she will dance her little heart out.  It is on  Thursday April 17th at 1030 am. We have about a 50 min drive to get there. Not too bad at all. I thought she might be little old for it, but I mentioned it and she then named off every character by name, what they wear, and look like. The reviews from the show were great from other moms with kids in ages from 1-10. So it will be perfect.

Sunday Funday at the Park.

I was freaking out a little more with each step she took, shes not allowed to climb it alone.. she loved it !!
she slide down and ran back for one more time, but she had to wait for daddy to have his turn to follow her back up again. yes Luis went down too, big kid at heart!! 

Part of the playground equipment, there are basketball courts,  baseball field, a walking path all the way around the lake and park area, and 5 covered, picnic table areas with charcoal grills, and smokers attached to use. They all have electricity with 11 outlets. Perfect for a day of cooking out and not having to go home once its dark were thinking next weekend if we dont spend Sunday at the rattle snack roundup in Texas!!!

The park here is too cute, one perk of the small town. Man made lake looks like the JAL town logo thingy.. dont know what its called Sorry :) 

Trout

PIC 1, it wont upload right, but to can see the is pic 1, also excuse the popped collar haha 

PIC 2 pic wouldnt upload properly :( She gets a little closer to the fish, and that lovely popped collar again. gotta roll that down next time. 

PIC 3 and she touched it... and then it flopped at her and she jumped back too bad I didn't capture that photo. 

Fun Filled Week of Learning..

Hello, we had a busy week. Alexa learned about all 5 Senses. We read books about each of them and had a blindfolded taste test to explore all her taste buds. Look in the mirror to see which ones were where on her tongue, Sour, Bitter, Sweet and Salty. We also did a blindfolded game. She had to reach in the box and feel an item or items and describe the texture of how it felt, what she thought the item was. Rough, Hard, Smooth, Soft, Bumpy, Stretchy etc. We discussed hearing and seeing with pretend binoculars and ended the week with a nature walk we took pictures of what we saw, and  felt and drew pictures in our senses book everything we saw, heard, touched, and smelled. She loved it.

I spry Binoculars, Rocks she sure does love rocks!!!
We had to touched them all : )

We also had lots of fun for Dr Seuss Birthday on Friday. She did  crafts, had cupcakes, goldfish, watched some movie and of course she had to have "Topcorn", good thing they had some  :)

She had her picture take with Dr Seuss hat on and scarf will post once I get it from the Library. 

Her Flowers are still growing she is watering them about every other day, She check on them everyday sometimes three or four times a day and draws what she says changed and measures them about every 4 days. Im so glad she is enjoying it. Her bean plant has also sprouted so shes able to see the roots. She has learned all the names of the different parts of the plants and what three things plants need to grow and the Plant life cycle process she had flash cards with word and photo of soil, seeds, water, sunlight, sprout and plant and she put them all in the correct sequence. 

Our little plant poem we sing is: 

Little brown seeds so small and round, 

are sleeping quietly underground.

Down come the rain drops, 

Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.

Out comes the rainbow

twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.

Little brown seeds way down below,

up through the earth they

grow, grow, grow

Little green leaves come one by one.

They hold up their heads 

and look up at the sun. 

She has sheets numbered 1,3,4,6,8,and 10. Today is day 14.  

Here she is so proud they are sprouting leaves, she planted Zinnia seeds. There are 10 spots with two seeds in each. the rest will sprout soon we hope. And after that beautiful flowers to enjoy.


Well have a great weekend everyone!!
We love and miss you all.

What a Fun Last Two Days..

We have had some really nice weather some days of 75 and 83. Too bad the wind blew gusts up to 40mph, not good when the dirt is so fine its blowing every where. It hurts when it hits you.

We have been reviewing the letters again and also did a lesson about caterpillars for the letter c and read the book The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and watched a kid video of a real life capture of the metamorphisis of the Egg to Butterfly. She loved it. We did a couple color sheets talked about the process of how butterflies form and she sat on floor pulled legs in and tucked head to pretend like she was the egg and then stretched to her belly to wiggle like caterpillar then stood up and crossed legs and wrapped arms around herself real tight to be a coccoon (she keeps trying to say chrysalis it too fun) and then she slowly spreads her wings and flies away. We did couple craft pages also. When Luis came home from work she hurried and grabbed her book and read it to him just like I did her, I was amazed at how well she retold the story in her own words and then she got back on floor to show him all the actions. Her she is with her projects:

Please excuse her hair she had a bath that morning and we didnt do much too it. :)

We also have been checking and watering her flowers daily, three started to get some green she was so excited. She then drew a pic of what she saw. Whenever it changes she will continue to draw what she  sees and this next week we will read Eric Carle the tiny seed book and sing a song about little brown seeds and learn about what plants need to grow. also plan to go on nature walk and learn about the 5 senses. busy week but it all kinds of can be tied in together also for a week study. 

Today she had story time at the library, every Friday we will go. Today they discussed farm animals. They also had some real farm animals brought in by a local. so nice we got their little early and Alexa was able to ride the pony, the had a baby lamb and a rooster and chicken. Funky Lookin rooster and chicken they are awesome looking wait till you see the picture below. Anyways im really impressed with the story time here and all the other kids are great too. Theres about 7-8 in the class when they all show up. Next Friday is Dr Seuss birthday, I was planning some crafts etc, but found out today at library we will be able to go back in afternoon for a little party with movie, crafts, popcorn, cupcakes, and get their photo taken in Dr Seuss hat with backdrop. So YAY!! that day is covered so I wont be needing to plan much for the rest of that day maybe read a Dr. Seuss book at bedtime. 

Here are the photos from today:

She climbed up on that saddle like she does it daily. I was said" yep thats my girl".. haha
ok I didnt say that but i was thinking it. 

Crazy head feathers. Aren't they fun

This is who I think they look like, hes from that movie surfs up. 

Finally Some Nice weather

The next three days were hopefully gonna have 70-75 degree weather. Although its warm the wind continues to blow. The dirt almost so fine its everywhere. Its affecting all of our allergies lots especially Alexas. But on the upside we were finally able to go on a walk to the park and play for a few and plant some flowers (indoor for now) in Alexas princess greenhouse we got over the weekend. They are to be planted inside and then after about 5 weeks you plant them outside. Hope they grow, im not too good at keeping the ones at the store that are already potted alive, so I hope we can actually get the seeds to sprout.
Alexa will water them with a spray bottle and she drew picture today of what she sees and once they change she will journal with pictures what changes she sees. This will help her learn about Living Things. She is so excited she keeps looking over at them and telling me" any minute they will grow i just know it", I keep telling her it will take about 5-7 days maybe. The countdown is on. So here we are with day 1.

 two seeds per little pod, she made sure they were just right..












This morning we reviewed our abcs, and are starting phonics and sounds of the abcs. We read a book about ballet and ballerinas to review the b sounds and spot all the b's we saw in the book did a color by number ballerina color page and some other couting games.  She made a craft:

I had the ballerinas already cut out and she colored them and made faces and made tutus with colored paper.
(idea from pintrest)

And dont forget its Mardi Gras found this craft also on pintrest from a lady I follow with awesome crafts for kids some educational and some just plain fun