A Week Off for Abby's 6th Birthday

Here is a Pond Themed Snack for everyone to try for our Pond habitat theme.  I found it on a different blog and thought it was a great tie in.  Basically it is a bagel with blue cream cheese as the little pond, a cucumber slice for a lily pad, and a fruit snack frog on top of the cucumber.  Very cute.

We had an exciting past week of finding a real live frog in our backyard!  The quote of the week goes to Abbagail for saying "He's not dead mommy!" then putting the frog on the ground where he promptly feigned death on his back for just long enough to be hilarious!  Then he quickly rolled over and hopped off into the grass.  

I set up a lot more of my school area - here is a pic of what it looks like so far.

This is Abbagail's desk, she has the computer since she's the only one in her own grade so far.

We also got out the modeling clay a few days this week and worked on making different things.  Abbagail was very interested in the horse I made and re-created it fairly well on her own.  She really is good at art, but she needs inspiration to get started.  I can't seem to get her to try to make or draw anything without something to look at - unless she just spontaneously does it without me asking. 

We found a ton of little yellow flowers that smelled delightful in our backyard.  I tried making some flower perfume out of them... but it didn't really take.  I'll have to look up the recipe again and see what I did wrong.  The flowers smelled like honeysuckle when we picked them, but the perfume just smelled like fresh cut grass.  Not a bad smell... but not what we were going for.  It was still a fun project.

 

Abbagail turned 6 and we had her birthday part with her friends from the neighborhood.  She was really excited at having her first ever "friend" party.  They played in her playroom with all the toys, did bubble wands outside (I'd bought enough jumbo bubble wands for every kid to have one to take home) and they did sidewalk chalk too.  We had pin the tail on the donkey, which Abby cheated and peeked so of course she got the best one, but we let her friend Gabriel have the prize instead because he didn't cheat.  There was the best chocolate cake (Safeway of all places, it was so delicious!!! I was shocked, I generally hate cake), and then present time.  It was too gray for the waterballoon fight I'd planned, but we had a great time anyway.  The kids had more fun blowing up my extra balloons and playing with the helium filled balloons than they did with anything I tried to plan out for them.  I love little kids!

It was so funny, every kid at the party helped Abbagail hold up her scooter so I could take a picture of it.

 We are currently going through freshwater fish (and hitting on a few other fish while we're at it) for our pond habitat, I'll write a post at the end of the week on what we've been doing.  I got offset a few days by the birthday bash, but that's fine we had a fun week of off topic work anyway.