The whole gang! :)

Here is the whole gang! They are great kids...I'm very blessed!

Welcome Landon!

Welcome Landon!!! What a great kid with lots of energy and laughter! I've had Landon in my care at Catriona's first child care where I also worked a couple of days a week...so it was nice to have him start with us this week! He's made a great transition to our wee daycare family :)

What a wonderful sight! All of these children playing and enjoying themselves! Regardless of how smaaaall the sandbox is right now! lol We're making a built-in one soon.

This is Catriona and Natalie planting their peas that "germinated" :) Catriona had asked "does that mean they have germs?" hehe too cute...

Welcome Gabriella!

Aww, welcome to our wee family child care Gabriella!

Catriona was keeping her busy with a colorful book...
...then her and Christian started getting interested in it :)
She is a sweet baby, I feel blessed to have her in my care...
Per the Waldorf philosoply, I have since put this book away, and many of my flashy colorful books... Children at this age benefit better from oral communication and story telling/singing/plays, etc... I still love my books though, I've just got a nice small selection out for Springtime.

Welcome Christian!

Christian joined my wee child care family last week and is a welcomed addition! He enjoyed all the "new" toys to play with and uses his imagination in a very creative way... I've really enjoyed his new energy to the group dynamic we have.

He knows how to keep the little kids entertained with his creative business! :)

They all helped with the yard work...

These are our pea seeds wrapped in wet paper towels...we are learning germination! This activity is from Little Acorn Learning guides.

Child care days...

This is my Spring nature table... I think it's lovely...

...and the children enjoy it as well :)
Catriona came up with this idea to make lily pads to jump around on like frogs...this was a great way for them to expel some of that excess energy when we can't go outside!

Then after being frogs for quite a while, they decided to do yoga :)

Fun at daycare!

Playing ring-around-the-rosie...

They love dress-up!
He got soaked doing this, but he was having so much fun! :) Good thing parents pack all those spare clothes!

Tea anyone?

I think my oldest was having just as much fun! :)

I just coldn't resist posting these! My sailor girl :)

Easter morning with my family...

We decided not to add much candy to Catriona's basket this year...she seems to have a reaction to sugar...even the natural kind, like in fruit...it's an almost instant change in her too...so we have to start being very carful with how much she's getting... But the puzzles and colidascope (sp?), felted barrettes, bobble heads and the peep pen was a lot of fun for her... There were some jelly beans and chocolate too, just not a lot...

The Easter bunny hid "real" eggs this year! The one's we hard boiled and decorated and left on the table for him :)

My new Easter morning tradition are these delicious Hot Cross buns! Typically they are served on Good Friday...

It was a quiet Easter this year, with my two older kids growing up so fast, sometimes it seems as if Catriona is an only child with them being gone so much doing their own thing a lot of the time... I do try and have them included in as much as I can, but they just spread their wings and fly...it's really sad for a mother sometimes...I think it's called "empty nest symdrom"? ;)

Here comes Peter Cottontail =:-)

I think the kiddos enjoyed the crafts we put together for Easter... Learning new colors while putting together an Easter wreath, finger play stories and exercising those little fingers with homemade play dough was a lot of fun!

The children were so adorable hopping around like bunnies once they put their "new" ears on :)