A Few Things

I made cookies for the track team.  Tyler requested chocolate chip and white chocolate macadamia nut.  I think I over-mixed the batter for the chocolate chip cookies because they came out weird.  The white chocolate macadamia nut cookies were REALLY good.

I almost always have m&m candies in the house, but I have replaced them with these Unreal candy coated chocolates.  They don't have any artificial ingredients, corn syrup, GMOs, etc.  I found them at Target; Reagan and I both think they taste better than m&m candies!  I am making an effort to cut out artificial dyes in our food.  It is derived from petroleum; that is gross.  I actually have a plan to go through my cabinets and throw out everything that has artificial colors in it - sprinkles, Jello, and whatever else I find.  I don't think we have too much.  I plan on taking a picture and posting it.

Kate has three teeth coming in at the same time in addition to a nose that won't stop running.  She had some trouble sleeping, but is doing better.  The constant stream of green mucous is kind of gross.

I am now working on the color orange with Kate.  I filled a bin with orange things for her to enjoy.

She made her first collage yesterday!  I taped a piece of contact paper, sticky side out, to the sliding glass door and gave her little pieces of orange crepe paper streamers, orange pom poms, and orange foam stickers to stick on the contact paper.  She did this for the longest time.

Collin missed four days of school last week with this awful virus.  He still has a cough, but should be able to go back to school on Tuesday.  I'm happy it's a long weekend.

Recycled Easter Collage

This week our collage box was full of leftover Easter items.  We had Easter grass (the paper kind), cut outs from Easter cards, jelly beans, and some petals from flowers we had in a vase.

Here is R's finished collage:

To learn more about Collage Box, visit Shannon at Welcome to Our Wonderland.

Collage Box Flower

Shannon from Welcome to our Wonderland is now hosting a collage box linky.  Collage is always fun so we decided to try it this week.

R cut pink and purple pipe cleaners and ribbon with flowers on it to add to her collage materials.

She also used pom poms and bug stickers.  I cut a piece of clear contact paper in the shape of a flower and R added all of her materials.  When she finished, I covered it with another piece of contact paper.  She used a hole punch to make a hole to attach the green pipe cleaner stem to the flower.

To find out more about Collage Box, click here to visit Shannon's blog!  While you are there, tell her I said hello!