Princess Breakfast

For weeks, Lily has been looking forward to the Princess Breakfast.  This morning it was finally here!  We dressed up and saw a short performance and then ate breakfast while the princesses came around and greeted everyone. Lily loved it!

Lily's friend Kaitlyn also came, which made it extra fun.

 Lily told me Aurora was her favorite princess.

 She also really liked Rapunzel.

 But her favorite character overall was Jane, the girl in the performance who got to meet all the princesses.  I think she identified with her.

 Both girls with Cinderella.

 We waited a long time to see Snow White.  She was worth the wait, though.  She danced with the girls, which they loved.

 

Lily wanted to meet Peter Pan, but then she was really shy.  The girl beside him is Pocahontas.



Bathroom Castle

Playing Peakaboo

...one handed

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Today we had a joint Mother's Day- Birthday Party for Grandma B. She is such a gift to all of us!

Biblical Playmobil

I'm starting to plan for next year's homeschool theme of Exodus, and I bought some new Playmobil to go with it. It was suppose to stay in the boxes until next September, but of course that didn't happen. The kids had fun with them today. Hopefully we won't lose all the pieces before next fall. At least Pharoah's throne room is still in the package...

I also got a new Christmas set.  It's smaller than our old one, but has a plastic stable (our old one was paper).  Hopefully between the two sets we'll have a full Playmobil nativity this Christmas.  It's just so fun that there are such cool biblical toys the kids can play with.  I just love listening to them act the stories out themselves.

Growing Ladybugs

We are talking about life this month- what people, animals, and plants need to live, and how we take care of animals and plants, farming, etc.  I wanted Lily to get a chance to take care of an animal.  Not wanting to be too ambitious, we picked the short term project of ladybugs.  What a blast! 

Talk about an easy starting point.  You buy the habitat and order the larva.  Then when the larva come, you drop them in the habitat along with the food.  You put water in every other day, and that's it!  It's been so fun watching them grow and change.  And the process goes so quickly.  They started becoming pupas on Tuesday or Wednesday, and today the first adult ladybugs emerged.  Wow!

At first I was scared we'd kill them all, and we wouldn't get to see any of them grow up.  But instead we find more bugs every day.  When they came we counted 8 larva.  Then when they formed pupas we found there were 9.  But today after five have become adults, there's still 9 pupas.  Eric joked perhaps we have a ladybug farm going on.  Actually, I think some of the larva were little and didn't move much, and we assumed they were dead when they were good and alive all along. 

Anyway, Lily was all excited to feed the adults raisins today, and now she's looking forward to letting them all go in the garden.

Little Mozart