Peep on the Bike goes Round and round

Look what Peep is learning to do

Peeps 1st day at Preschool

Peep started Preschool at the end on March. She goes Tues and Thursday mornings. The bus picks her up around 8 am and drops her off a little after 11

Here she is all ready to go!

She is soo proud of her Hola (Dora) Back pack

Here is the bus!
Her Pap Paw is the driver...She always asks Pap paw when she gets on the bus "
Where's Wa-Wa (Gramma)

Chinese New Years Party / China Travel group reunion

We traveled to Reading this weekend for a Chinese New Years party at our friend's house. Here is a photo of all the girls who came the older girsl were part of our friend's older daughter's travel group and most of the younger girls are from Peeps travel group.

Peep having fun!

Peep and her friend Mia

Most of Peeps China Sisters...Notice peep has her Pooh she had just gotten up from her nap

Pumpkin Carving 2008

Helping gut the pumpkin

Jeff carved one side Carlee Cadee

Cadee checking out her 1st Jack o Lantern

the other side had the face on

Spooky!!

Oct Misc

Do these kids look devilish or what??

Carlee with her bench she made for the school benefit auction.

Slave labor starts early at this house

OK Gramma don't look at the next 2 pictures you may freak out.

Sept Misc

Trying on Carlee's boots

The Diva striking a pose

Happy Kid!!!

Sissy reading to Little Sister
Carlee Started Piano lessons this month...Practice Practice Practice

Visit with Mia

Big Hug!!!

North Myrtle Beach

On the Beach...

Beach Baby

Carlee liked the hot tub and lazy river at the hotel the best...

Typical Cadee liked the big sandbox and the waves!

Carlee with her Best Friend
On the Fort Fisher Ferry Ride...The girls first ferry ride.

Practice Prac

Not to be out done...Cadee on her trike...

Getting much better...

Future Hells Angel

Unplugged Project...Flat

This weeks Unplugged Topic is Flat... Well since we have a budding artist on our hands we could learn to make paper, it's flat

1st step Get out the blender and fill it with shredded paper, glitter, flowers, anything you want in your paper. We recycled old construction paper and printed computer paper then we added glitter and some coral bell flowers.

Step 2 Add water to the blender and blend until you get a slurry of paper and water.

Step 3. We went outside for this step. 1st lay down a piece of old blanket then a piece of interfacing (the type you use for sewing) then smooth out the paper slurry on top of the interfacing. When slurry is smooth cover with another piece of interfacing and blanket

Step 4 Stomp out the water. Both of the girls liked this one.

Step 5 once you have most of the water stomped out remove the blanket pieces and one piece of interfacing and let the paper dry outside until firm.

Carlee can't wait for it to dry to color and draw on it....Note if you use printed paper your paper will have a gray tint.

Water Fun

Jeff gave the girls each a bucket of water the other night that was the entertainment for the rest of the evening.

Cadee's version of a car wash...

Sissy to the rescue...

Carlee being Carlee

Farmer Cadee

Plowing up the Field....Not really

Cadee really loves riding on equipment, here she is on the tractor with her Pappy Ritzman

Bringing in the Crops

Her and Dad just got done husking corn, here they are bringing it inside for mom

Unplugged Project...Stone

I found a new blog at http://www.unplugyourkids.com/ every week the blog will give you a topic to do a kids project with. This week the topic was Stone, so we decided to make hot rocks.

Our first step for this project was an adventure for the girls we went up onto the mountain and collected the stones from the mountain creek so the girls got to wade in the water and sort through the stones while Mom was standing guard watching for rattlers. We made a little dam and talked about that too.

Next step take the stones home and wash them off. Cadee and I did this while Carlee was napping. Cadee sure had fun with the hose..

We left the stones dry overnight then put them on a foil cookie sheet and into the oven at 350 for 15 min. While the stones warmed up we peeled the paper off of our broken crayons. Once the stones were hot I took them out and gave one to each of the girls to color



You just press the crayon onto the hot stone and the wax will melt on the stones. Once we got some flat stones painted up I sprayed them in the sink with cold water so we could stack them. This was Cadee's favorite part.

Here are the girls with their masterpiece. What's next I'm not sure. Maybe Tie dye tshirts, marbleizing paper with shaving cream and food coloring or stepping stones. I do know next weeks unplugged topic is glass. Interesting....