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Mud Pie Kitchen

 This mud pie kitchen has been the best ever entertainment for my kiddos for about a 1/2 a year now.  Darla really started joining in on the fun when she started walking (4 months ago).  This is one thing that my kids can do together.  There is not much to it.  You just mix and mix and dump, and mix to your hearts content.  The mud pie kitchen really took off when I stole/borrowed this sorter thing from Jeff. It is made for the garage for nut/bolts/etc.  P.S. there are a ton of great sorters at the hardware store - check it out if you need some.  Anyways, I fill up the 8 compartments with flour, sugar, beans, old cereal, coffee (they love this one for the smell), rice, cornmeal, or what ever I can find in my cupboards.  They aren't allowed to use any water with the kitchen until it is summer.  Water gets out of control very fast with Desmond, so they would be cold in 5 min.  Instead, this will keep them busy up to a good hour - YES!  I moved it up on the porch, where the snow melts the fastest, and it always seems hottest up on the porch, so basically they can play year round.
P.P.S. This is why the neighbor girl is always begging her Grandma to please can I go play with Desmond.

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December

 Darla started coloring/drawing/scribbling in Dec

 She is our little climber

 and one of her favorite spots to climb is on the coloring table

 I love this photo - once a month it is a looong morning as Darla waits for Fletcher to get washed/dried so he is ready to go again at nap time.

 Climbing again - helping Daddy hang the new ceiling fan

 Desmond is a very good colorer - such concentration

 Playing Dr, although I'm not sure how they know how to do this - we are rarely at the Dr. - very thankful for healthy kids.

 Playing in the rice bin together so nicely down by the wood stove

 Enjoying sledding while we can.  In CO if it snows you have to race out, or it is gone the next day

 Rice in the dump truck

Such afantastic sensory activity for them

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Darla's milestones

 First Foods - avacado

 Biter Biscuit

 Prunes - she doesn't really eat a lot of anything, just little tastes

 Her favorite thing to do while eating - put the cap of the food pouch (which I don't have a photo of) in her mouth.  A coking hazad?? - probably

 

Patty cake (I love her little noises)

 

Her giggle is so contagious - sorry these two are on their side

 

crawling

 Pruney feet from bath time

 I think it is so cute how she sits

Patty cake or Yay big Brother for riding his bike

Desmond's August Projects

 You know everyone is having fun when the house looks like this!

 So many hours spent playing/tasting this bag of noodles

 Glueing

 Sorting

 This was another idea I saw oneline

 Nature project - from things that we found on the way to the pool

 So artistic

 Glueing paper

 Add water to the sandbox and you have hours of fun

 Building and building

 The sculpture was Desmond's favorite project of the month I would say

 Even Darla likes the sandbox/water - she just eats too much of it

 The finished/painted sculpture - this project took a couple of days

 Glueing plastics - if you can glue it we don't throw it away

 Painting - when it is dry you take the tape off and have a beautiful picture

 He is starting to get into the mud pie kitchen a lot more

 Trains trains trains

 Even Darla likes the trains

 Chalk with paint brushes for blending

 Shaving cream and matchbox cars = instant car wash

Desmond got all the stars filled up on his good behavior chart, and so he got to pick out what he wanted from the toy store - finger paints.  

I don't think I will be taking as many pictures of projects, since it is getting a little unlimited - and then I will want to scrap them all.  We love doing projects - they have slowed down a little in September, but when it gets colder I'm sure they will pick up more and more.