I made vanilla ice cream on Saturday. This kids were super excited to try it out. I also gave them the option of having Magic Shell on top of it. For those who don’t know, Magic Shell is chocolate that you pour over the ice cream and it hardens. It always reminds me of my Grandma… Continue reading Magic Shell
Yesterday Gillian discovered the typewriter in our office. Yes, we still have a typewriter. We actually thought the ribbon had dried out, but Gillian showed us that all we needed to do was repeatedly hit one key. She got it working and had a blast typing her name and a bunch of random letters. When… Continue reading Typing
This afternoon, Daddy asked me to dress the kids in there bathing suits. This resulted in a lot of questions. “Are we going to a pool?” “Why do we need our bathing suits?” “Why don’t you have one on?” I sent them to find Daddy. I finished some chores in the house before I went… Continue reading Car wash
Gillian had a birthday party today at Pump It Up for twins from her class. She was super excited about this party. She asked me first thing this morning “Is today Ryan and Sofia’s party? Can we go now?” On our way to the party, she asked “Do you know how to get to Pump… Continue reading Pump It Up
Today Gillian’s class had a field trip to the Pottery House and I got to chaperone! Gillian and I arrived at school at snack time. Gillian sat on the carpet with her friends while I talked to the other mommies. We were each assigned a group of a couple of kids along with our child.… Continue reading The Pottery House
We had a little dance party tonight in the basement. The kids really took advantage of the open space. Of course I got videos of all their awesome moves. I love Gillian’s interpretative dance moves at the beginning of this video. I love John at the end of this video. Finally, the kids… Continue reading Dance Party
John’s class is learning about solids, liquids and gases. On Monday each kid in his class was to wrap up a solid, liquid or a gas and then present facts to the class about their object. The other kids then get the opportunity to guess what the object was. John and Daddy filled a balloon… Continue reading Science Project
Daddy caught John demonstrating his trick shots with his Nerf Gun on Sunday. I love this little video. He is so confident and creative at the same time.
John and Gillian spent the day at Grandma’s house. They spent most of the day playing outside. Aunt Betty sent me some pictures of Gillian’s chalk pictures. That’s Gillian. Aunt Betty traced Gillian and Gilly added the tutu! Then she added more detail. Gillian laid next to her chalk picture. When I picked up the… Continue reading Chalk pictures
John played basketball with the Tinton Falls recreation department again this winter. This year we had practice during the week and games on Saturdays. John’s skills improved immensely as the season went on, but he has decided to not play basketball again next year. He says he doesn’t like it. Saturday was his last game.… Continue reading Basketball
John and Gill went up a hill 