N is for Nose

I could not resist some silly nose cups right in time for the letter N.

The cups are all named.  The one Kate chose with the nose ring is The Artist.  I hope this is as close as she ever gets to a nose ring.

 Reagan had The Starlet, and Ellie had The Yenta.

I could NOT convince Collin to try a cup.  He thinks they are gross and made it clear that he will not drink out of a cup with a nose on it!!!

Dad tried one though; he chose The Leading Man.

So funny!!!

 Kate and I read these nose themed books.  The Little Bunny book has scratch and sniff pages.  Kate enjoyed this, but she found most of the smells to be too strong; she did like the strawberry fragrance though.

N is for Nest - Part Two

The sun was out today (please don't mistake that for warmth because it was windy and not warm at all in the morning, but it wasn't raining) and Kate was finally starting to feel better.  Both of those things worked in our favor as we were able to go for a short walk to look for birds' nests.

I absolutely LOVE that she was looking out of the wrong side of the binoculars.  She is just too cute.

I spotted a few nests, and I tried to point them out to her, but I'm not so sure that she saw any of them.  I pointed them out to her in the pictures later.

We read Two Little Birds by Mary Newell DePalma and revisited our other bird/nest books from last week to finish up our final installment of N is for Nest.

N is for Nest

Kate has croup and has not been feeling well all week, but we still managed to spend some time on the letter N.

 All three of these books have been read multiple times this week.  My favorite is Nest by Jorey Hurley.  It is a very simple book with only one word on each page, but the pictures do a wonderful job of explaining so much beyond the text.  Kate and I were able to spend a lot of time looking at the pictures and talking about what was happening.  Great book.

 Kate's favorite of the three books is In My Nest by Sara Gillingham.  This book has a little finger puppet bird attached to the book, and she adored being able to manipulate the bird as we read the book.

Kate made a simple nest craft inspired by a craft I saw on a friend's Instagram.

 I cut a nest shape and two little bird shapes out of cereal box cardboard.  Kate colored the nest and painted the birds.

 I helped her glue it all together.

 Kate was SO proud of her craft.

 I found this cute bird in a nest snack on Pinterest.  Kate LOVED it.  I made more of them for Collin and Reagan when they came home from school.  Pineapple is a favorite fruit around here.