Autumn's B-Day!

Autumn's Birthday fell on a Wednesday this year - I fixed her pancakes and eggs breakfast, we had a preschool field trip to the fire house, where the firemen gave her the bunny she is holding when they learned it was her birthday. We went to Coney Island for lunch - she and her friend Jenn wanted ice-cream, but I told them we were just getting lunch - but surprise, their little happy meals came with ice-cream, so they had it after all. For dinner she wanted burritos, corn on the cob, and yogurt - so that's what we had! (Frozen yogurt from Tutti fruti's)

At dinner asked "When am I going to be four again?" and we had to break the news to her that she could never go back and be four again, but it was good to be five too.








Nammy's Visit!
Nammy came for the party - the weekend before Autumn's birthday. After picking Nammy up, we went straight to the zoo - it's finally cooling down a little so we can enjoy being outside again.


autumn always likes riding on the zebra on marry-go-rounds.


Eating snow-cones at the zoo - red and green tongues!


it's a Texas zoo - so there are long-horns.



Feeding the giraffes!



Princesses and Pirates Party!

Autumn's B-Day cake - lots of frosting on this one!


Heather's friends helped with face painting, we decorated little treasure boxes, then went on a treasure hunt that Doug set up for the kids.





Treasure hunt!



Pinata time!














Presents!


Glitter on the floor after the party (the pictures does not quite do it justice - we have a sparkley house now!) This party was the day before our big primary program at the church - several of the kids were up on stage with glittery hair the next day!

reading stories at night.

Singing Happy Birthday, and Autumn opening her quilt from Granny McDonald
- there's a lot of love in this quilt!

All tucked in under her new quilt - goodnight little Autumn!

Joy School 2011-2012

name shirts!

Before our first pre-school, I decided to make painting shirts for all the kids this year. I got some t-shirts at the dollar store.

supplies: Tshirts (dark colored) bleach, tape, squirt bottle, plastic grocery sacks.

put the grocery sacks into the tee-shirts (so the bleach won't soak through to the front)
Use the tape to put names onto shirt - I ripped the tape in half to make the letters thinner, and give it an antique look.
Spray bleach onto the backs of the shirts over the names, then immediately rinse the bleach off in a sink. then remove tape.

This is a shirt where the tape was not ripped in half:
These are the letters where I ripped the tape in half (I think this way looks a lot better)





tomorrow I'm going to let the kids paint the fronts of their shirts with material paint - then through the year they cane use the big shirts to cover their cloths when we have messy projects (art, cooking, gardening etc. etc.)


The front of the shirt:

the center was made by dribbling a line across the shirt, and then using a comb to comb the paint up and down - then of coarse putting paint on their hands and doing hand prints - all supplies came from the dollar store!





They're some pretty crazy shirts, 4-5yo's make the best modern art!