The Zoo and Memaw's house

Here's Maggie all ready to go on our adventure. At Laurie's suggestion, I bought us a zoo membership. It was very reasonable and it includes everything. I just told Mags we were going on an adventure.

We walked into the bird house and 3 people walked up to us and handed Maggie their left over bird seed sticks, which was cool cos I wasn't planning on buying one. It took us a while to find a bird that wanted to eat but when we did it was awesome. I held Maggie up (I can't believe I got such a good picture one-handed and without looking) and she gently held the stick near the bird. Well she poked a few times but overall did very well.

We had just looked at the kangaroos (napping, like every other animal) and Maggie announced she wanted to go home. Oh yeah, and she's lost her pet dog, Itsy Bitsy. She was positive she had left it by the rhinos so we hoofed it back over there but no Itsy Bitsy. I'm hoping someone will turn it into Lost and Found. We'll see. 

After that, we left to go visit Memaw. Stupidly, I was convinced for about an hour that I needed to go left (which I thought was south). So embarrassing. Finally I realized my mistake and we got there. We had a lot of fun playing with all the toys Memaw has gotten for Maggie and Ella and Grand Gene's grandson. 

Learning Time

I want to start posting the various crafts and educational activities Maggie and I do together. So here goes. 

We're working on -at words. Basically, I wrote the -at word and we sounded it out together. Wait, first we  established what at said. Then added the different beginnings to sound out the word. Then she "erased" the beginning letter with a q-tip dipped in water. I encouraged her to stay on the exact line to do her "magic trick." 

We created a birthday card for her Nana. I used a piece of construction paper, white paint, glitter and a glitter pen. First, I painted her hands white and then pressed them on the paper to make a heart. Then she put glitter on the heart. I wrote Happy Birthday, Nana and Love. Then I helped Maggie write her name. I tried to let her direct as much as possible.

This was a cool idea of what to do with extra construction paper scraps. I helped Maggie write her name really big on construction paper. I directed a lot on this one since it was so big. Then I put glue on one area at a time and let her put the scraps (I cut them up but next time I'd like her to cut) on the line. It's hard to tell at the end what's written so I figure it either needs bigger letters or smaller scraps.

Maggie and Ella at Grandpa's house

Maggie, Ella, Laurie, Grandpa and I were all at Grandpa's house. The girls had lots of fun pulling Maggie's suitcase back and forth across the house. It's so big compared to Ella; it was pretty funny watching her pull it.

Ella found Maggie's old bunny hat. So of course, we put it on her. Oh my Lord, she was so cute in it.

The Holy Grail, my friends. A sweet, good picture of the girlies.

I'm guessing Ella touched Maggie and this is Maggie's offended look. She is so dramatic.

Check out that hair. A lady can never have too many accessories!

Maggie took this picture of Grandpa (or 'Pa, as Ella calls him). Not bad.

Maggie and the Tomato

Maggie and I were in the kitchen and I was making her lunch. She walked over to the counter and saw a Roma tomato, picked it up and started eating it. She didn't eat the whole thing but she took several big bites. Hilarious!