Rain is Falling All Around

We arrived home from Preschool just in time to watch a rain and hailstorm. Ms A was thrilled to play in the rain. We don't have adequate rain gear, so we improvised. Who says snow pants are only good from the snow?!?

Splashing and Singing:

The song Ms A is singing is from a My Little Pony movie.

We had fun talking about the rain cycle and what makes hail. Ms A loved stomping and splashing in the puddles, I also pointed out the ripples in the puddles. She loved "skipping" her rock across the puddles. According to Reed, you need to have a big lake or pond to 'skip' rocks, but Ms A had fun with her puddles.

Skipping Rocks

No Training Wheels

With summer quickly approaching (fingers crossed), Reed and Ms A decided it was time to take off the training wheels.
Day One


Day Two:

Mowing the Lawn

Reed has been gone the past couple of weeks doing trainings and meeting customers in Taiwan and Shanghai. While he's been seeing this:

We've been doing this:



I love how Ms A gets a RUNNING start before she mows the lawn. She was so delighted, I had to let her do it. She was closely supervised. After her turn I mowed the lawn, my first ever, (never did it as a teenager, young adult or adult.

More pictures of Reed's trip once I figure out what they are (Thank goodness for Wikipedia and hopefully some help from Reed. :) )

New Tool and Ideas

I love Ms KWerner's blog! A couple of months ago, I saw her video using Marta Stewart's Garden Trellis punch and I fell in love! I HAD to have that punch. I checked out a couple of crafts stores here, at Sara's and my mom's, but no such luck. Finally I went to Michaels (don't know why I didn't try there first) and they had one punch left. I quickly grabbed it as I checked out the other punches. It was SO HARD to reel myself in and not go off the deep end of purchasing punches. She has some fun ones. As soon as I came home, I went crazy, punching all sorts of papers and making a bunch of cards. I was in HEAVEN! Here are a couple of the cards.

Aren't they BEAUTIFUL!!
I'm going to have a hard time finding loving homes for these!!!