Monday, February 8, 2010

SUPERBOWL AND A BLOODY NOSE

On sunday we went to a superbowl party at visna's brother's house. They have 3 kids so the girls always have someone to play with. Well like usual lei lei was being daring and jumping off their stairs and fell leaving her with a bloody nose. We ended up leaving early to get her home and calm her down and give her some tylneol. After we got home we rented the movie THIS IS IT micheal jackson. Angelina is a huge fan and couldnt stop dancing and singing and copying his moves, I was very impressed ..lol I took two video's of it but for some reason they wont upload, any tips on fixing this???

angelina dancing

lei lei's pajama choice for the night

DATE NIGHT AT THE GUN RANGE

It was eddie's turn for choice of date nite. He picked the gun range, well I can't shoot preggo but I so wanted to do, Eddie did about 200 rounds and helped with loading and his marksmenship. It's called INSIGHT in Artestia, really affordable and if you dont own a gun its only $10 to rent and you can try different ones! Eddie was using his bro in laws 9mm but I wanted to see a 44mag or maybe a 357. I can't wait not to be preggo and be able to shoot, seems like a stress reliever. After we headed for Roadhouse grill for dinner, yum! It was packed but ended up being a 20 min wait. Eddie invited lyn and visna over for a movie , we rented Zombieland. I loved it and want to buy it. It was funny and scary. It was so late they spent the night and visna had to borrow a pair of pj pants from eddie well visna wears size m and eddie wears xxl! Plus we need to do laundry and all he had was heart bottoms..haha I forgot to mention the girls were with my mom and grams for the night..lol Nice break. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO UPLOAD THE VIDEO BUT IT JUST WONT! I GIVE UP...

OUR TOT SCHOOL FOR THE WEEK

This week we did alot of stuff and included lei lei in everyone of the activities. Alot of the idea's we used this week we borrowed from jill's tot school playdate, I wanted angelina to try all these and lei lei to try them again. I had to hit up all of the hotspots for supplies, alan party supply, target, joann's and the dollar store. I prepared all of them for the week, so when it was time I was quick and ready! Eddie helped out too, and was impressed with what the girls could accomplish in one week, He did question why is angelina going to preschool when I could be teaching her like this at home and probibly better than them. It is a question I need to think about...

First activity was these glittery heart stems from the dollar store and a round piece of strofoam, I marked holes and had the girls match up the sticks with the holes.



Next we did these 6 mini hearts with a 6 plastic organizer and a pair of metal tongs. I bought the items at joann's.




Then we did the salt shaker actiivty with tissue paper, flower beads and pipe cleaners. This challenging for lei lei with lil patience she can do it every time, angelina it wa easy but made her count out 3 beads for each pipe cleaner to make it a lil harder.



We also did a sugar shaker with glitter pipe cleaners, all they had to do was put them in the holes.



The the letter were learning about is F and they did a couple of worksheets on these, like letter tracing, coloring a fish etc...



Next I traced heart earsers with a pin on cardstock and had lei lei match up the 4 hear shapes, for angelina I did numbers 1-4 on the earsers and on the carstock I mixed the numbers order up for a more challenging activity.





Daddy did a heart sticker matching on cardstock, for angelina I did two different heart patterns that she had to copy by order and color, and for lei lei I did a simple big to small hearts, This activity lasted a good 20 mins with all the combinations of angelina's.





Since angelina's activity took longer I was prepared for another for lei lei, I had 3 small red plates with big, medium and small labeled on them and a bag full of 3 different sized pom pom's. She like this activity alot and spent a good amount of time on it.



Angelina still had her worksheets to do for her name tracing and a couple valentine activity sheets I had her do.


I did these 8 lil plastic container hearts with 1-8 written on the inside and and top of them, also picked up some different red buttons, lei lei I just had do 4 of them, but angelina I had do all eight and when it was clean up time had them match the tops to the bottoms.



A easy activity we did, I used a recycled pasta sauce jar and some plastic fake baby clothes pins and some tongs, the idea was to get all the pins in the jar before the timer of one minute was up, it ended up being a really fun acitivity.



One of our new activities was sweeping! I bought at the dollar store a small broom and dust pan and had some white buttons, I had both of them sweep them up and empty them in a container, quite challenging for a two yr old, she kept spilling them everywhere.




Our last activity I brought out my saved caps collection and let the girls play with them, I had angelina and lei lei sort by colors then sizes.



In the end the girls asked for more to do, which we did so much! Hoping for another sucessful week.

MUFFIN TIN MONDAY~ VALENTINE'S THEME

We have been M.I.A. on this but were back..lol I mostly just forget, I end up reading the blogs and see oops it was muffin tin monday..lol I decided to do a valentine's theme since its the last monday before febuary 14. Each of the girls got three heart cups containing, mini pancakes, red grapes, and yogurt with heart sprinkles and of course pink and red juice (juicy juice). I added some cardstock voila! The girls loved it and finished their breakfast in record time.


TOT SCHOOL AT JILL'S

Our friend had a tot school playdate at her house, we get alot of idea's from her and love reading her blog. Angelina got to spend the day with grams out to lunch and the park, so me and lei lei could have some one on one time. It was valentine's themed, lei lei did pretty great, I dont know if it was the noise or distraction, but she did almost every tray without her usual atitude. It was also nice to get out the house and see all our friends too! This was a great idea and I hope she does it again :0)










Monday, February 1, 2010

THE BIGGEST FIT EVER ~ LEI LEI

Lei lei lately has been on my bad girl list, ,these little fits she throws are getting worse over the stupidist(if thats a word?!) things. Her biggest one is not wanting to sit in her carseat, not sure what triggered it but its literally a fight to hold her down and buckle her and she will cry, scream, and kick til she is out. My patenice is running so thin....I do have a video but it wont upload will try tomorrow!

Proof in the pictures:



A MUCH NEEDED DAY OUTSIDE

First we started with having lunch with grams at McDonald's, then headed to my favorite park in buena park. The girls had a blast and so did grams(look at her picture hilarious!). We spent forever there. Then home for a snack for energy, I opened the garage and let them ride their many bikes/ ride ons for a hour. Grams was impressed that angelina rode her bike so well, and lei lei is pettling on her tricycle. In all it was great day and we need so many of these :0)