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Halloween Day Fun (Celebrated on Saturday)

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The development we live in decided to celebrate Halloween on Saturday instead of Sunday. I decided that we would do all kinds of Halloween things on Saturday. We roasted pumpkin seeds and most of them survived. Some were burnt and set off the smoke detector. JDaniel created a Halloween picture of he and his friends dressed in Continue Reading

Great Posts I Came Across This Week- October 30

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Child Related I love the Personalized Subway shirts that The Mother Huddle made. I wish I had the talent to make one for JDaniel. The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman has a great Halloween Bottle Bowling or Just a Cute Craft. This looks really fun. Honorable Mention has a really cute post on Spider Treat Pouches for Kids. Fantastic Find Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn- Things in the Dark

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Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.   Steps:  Link your activity Continue Reading

Freaky Fungus or I Found a Brain in the Yard

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    I found this huge mushroom in my front yard. It looks a lot like a brain to me. The corpus callosum is missing from the mushroom. It makes it hard to see the right and left hemispheres clearly. The rippled effect one sees in brains is most easily seen on the edges of the mushroom. What do you think? Does it look like a brain to Continue Reading

Mom Wants Extra Sleep! Learning to Make a Bed! The Cat in the Hat!

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This morning when I went into get JDaniel out of his crib I found him laying down with his blanket over his head. Yes, he was laying there clasping a blanket over his face and head. I was frantic and shouted, “JDaniel get that blanket off your head!” What are you doing?” “Oh! I am camouflaged, “he said calmly taking the blanket off his head. “You Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Two Spiders Have A Halloween Lunch

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    I tried to make a spider web with sour cream, but I  couldn't make a fine enough line. After three attempts I laid some whole wheat spaghetti on the nachos and prayed that people looking at it would think it was a web. The second challenge as trying to make the muffins look like spiders. I thought using green peppers would Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn. – Fall Harvest

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Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books. Steps:  Link your activity below. Please Continue Reading

Exploring Nivens Farm

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Yesterday I posted pictures we took at a pumpkin stand in downtown Simpsonville, South Carolina where we purchased a large pumpkin for our front porch. Today I have more pumpkin related pictures to share. These pictures are from a field trip JDaniel and his playgroup went on to Nivens Farm. We got a small pumpkin and bag of apples as part of the Continue Reading

Almost Wordless Wednesday- Pretty Pumpkins

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We found such a variety of beautiful pumpkins at a local pumpkin stand. I had to take a picture of some of the more unusual ones. I love the lace pattern on these pumpkins  These white and green pumpkins are stunning. JDaniel loved these too. He ultimately picked a traditional orange pumpkin.    Continue Reading

Harvesting Words- Mom, Tell Me about It

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There are times when even I the official JDaniel translator does not understand what he is trying to tell me. Sometimes due to the context of the conversation and sometimes due to where we are when we have the conversation I can figure out what he has just said. When I do not recognize the word he is trying to say, I ask him to tell me about it. Continue Reading

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