Nate the Great

Wow... how time does fly by! Mr. "Nate the great" turned 4 this month.
I love seeing how excited his friends are throughout the day, looking forward to cupcakes for snack. Hope you had a memorable birthday my little friend!

Happy St. Patricks Day

Leprechaun day is one of my favorite days with the daycare. We talk about our plan to catch a leprechaun as soon as March rolls around. On Tuesday we started making our traps, ensuring that they were sparkly enough to attract a leprechaun. On Friday we walked up to the park to collect shamrocks from the grass to entice the leprechauns to walk into our traps. Unfortunately there were no shamrocks.... but Amelia insisted that the multitude of three petaled weeds were in fact shamrocks. During story time just before nap we all went outside to set our traps, and then we waited......

No St.Patricks day celebration would be complete without shamrock shaped cookies.

Amelia did a great job showing the boys how to spread green icing on the cookies!

By the time Nathan had dipped his knife into the icing and brought it back to the cookie there wasn't much left on his knife to spread.

At the end of nap time we went outside to check our traps, and watching the look on their faces was absolutely priceless! We went outside together and placed both hands on our traps and closed our eyes and said with all our hearts "I SET YOU FREE"....

And sure enough.... there was gold! (As I am sure you all know that when you catch a leprechaun and you set him free, he leaves you his gold.)

I for one was not surprised about actually catching the leprechaun... after all, we were at the end of the rainbow!

Back yard Buddies

Today really did feel like spring! Hanging out in the back yard playing in the sunshine felt SOOOOO good!Today was one of those days when everyone was busy doing things.
Of course having new sidewalk chalk and new bubbles to play with kept everyone busy for quite some time.

Kai and Rosie were really funny today. They played along side each other for most of the outside time. They even spontaneously shared the chalk with one another while sitting in the sunshine.

But the best part was when they were done they both stood up and Rosie leaned in to give Kai a "thanks for being my friend" kiss!

It's moments like this that make your heart melt!

Thanks for being my "back yard buddies"!

Play time

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Happy Birthday Evelyn & Nick

I love that Nickolas will still come downstairs and celebrate his birthday with all his little friends and his birthday buddy Evelyn. This year we celebrated Nick turning 18 and Evelyn 3. It was so cute when we lit the candles and tried to sing "happy birthday" to them, because when ever there was a pause in the song (eg. happy birthday to you... happy)that was when Evelyn would try to blow out the candles. So we ended up singing the song like this;

"happy birthday to you.. not yet, happy birthday to you..not yet, Happy birthday dear Evelyn and Nickolas.. not yet, happy birthday to you!!!" After we sang the song for Evelyn and she blow her candles it was nicks turn ..... that was a lot of candles for cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Evelyn and Nickolas!

Snow day!

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Merry Christmas 2011

The Christmas season has come so fast this year. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with their families this past weekend. I, for one, have truly treasured the down time with my family. I want to thank everyone for making this years daycare party a fun filled evening. Thanks for the wonderful food that everyone contributed and I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the parents of the children whom your child calls their friends. I would also like to express my gratitude for the wonderful and thoughtful gifts and encouraging words that you have given to me.... thank you! Having such great kids to love, nurture and help mold into thoughtful, caring and smart young people is such a privilege. Thank you for letting me part of their lives!