Today was Blue Monday!

We started our theme week. This first week was colors and today we did Blue!

They started the day with blue oatmeal (regular oatmeal with blue sprinkles!)

First we read Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see? By Bill Martin/Eric Carle. Then we reread it doing the animal sounds. I asked the boys what did they see. They (well mostly Gavin) came up with this list: Brown couch, red notebook, long blue pillow, green box, purple B, white rug, black slippers, and orange flower. He then drew each of these items in his notebook. Next we read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. The boys loved the glittery fish and were very happy to see him share at the end. We were very lucky that the library also had The Rainbow Fish on DVD so after reading it they got to watch it.

After watching the cartoon we made our BLUE page. For Teagan, I pulled out all the blue pieces and gave them to him. I let Gavin find the blue pieces on his own.

Later when Teagan was napping Gavin and I recycled our crayons!

First we had to separate our colors and take off any paper.

Then we had to melt them. We did this in the microwave with old never used cups. It took about 10-15 min. to melt all of them.

We then poured the melted crayons in to candy molds.

We had to let them set to dry. This took about 30 min.
Finally we were able to flip the molds over and use the crayons to color with!!

Last night Gavin started "writing" in his notebook. He is drawing pictures and together we come up with a story for them. I write the story as he is telling it and ask him questions to keep it going. He had a blast doing it and was happy with how long his story was. It was about a paragraph long for each story.

I didn't write the past two days because my keyboard broke from having coffee spilled in it. Only about half of the keys on the left side worked. It was no fun at all trying to type without them so I decided to wait until I had a working keyboard. The 23rd, My birthday, the boys and I (Joel had 24hr duty) spent the majority of the day at home. We did go out to the library to pick up the books we would need for the week. I was disappointed that a lot of books I wanted were not there. WhenI came home I discovered I could search our library's catlog online. So now I will know which books are there and not there before I go! I already have many listed for next week.

On the 25th Joel came home and slept. I wanted to keep the house quiet so the boys and I went to the Fort Discovery (local Science Museum) and the playground. Afterwards we went to Walmart to get some frozen snacks (Yay! Everyone loves a frozen snack, mozzerella sticks, breaded mushrooms, pizza, jalepeno poppers, dinner.) Daddy was up when we got home, the boys then went down for a much needed nap. They were extremely cranky.

Joel had 24hr. duty again today. We did take him dinner this time and are now home winding down for the night. They boys are happily playing with their "new" crayons and hanging out in the game room with me.