Scavenger Hunt Sunday 3-24-13

Well, it's another late Sunday scavenger hunt post and we've had a busy weekend, so I'm going to be quick.

Asian

That's my nephew in the middle.  His dad is Chinese.  My sister-in-law and her two youngest came to visit early this week to help celebrate my brother-in-law's engagement. 

Wavy

My oldest used to have really curly hair, now it is just wavy.

Draw

My two middle kiddos playing a game with their other cousin.  The game involved drawing plastic monkeys from a bag.

Soft

My little guy after taking a bath.  Soft baby skin, soft towel.

Texture

I made ice cream play dough with the kids on Friday.  It had an interesting texture.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday 2-10-13

We've been getting out of the house a bit more, this week we even made it to the zoo one morning! We are also getting ready for Valentine's Day so I have a couple of photos of those preparations.

The Small Things
Here is little Nick. This was taken on Thursday, the day he turned one month old! It is crazy to think it has already been a month, but at the same time, life without him seems so long ago.

Illustration
One of the places we went this week was to JoAnn's, and while we were there the kids picked out masks to paint. Well, actually Addy and Will did, but Ellie was so bummed that she didn't get one that the next day when I was at Michael's, I picked one up for her. Then Addy was sad that she didn't have a princess one. *sigh*

Work of Art

There are lots of works of art made around here, but this is one the kids made when they were outside earlier this week.  (And yes, Will is eating snow.)

Valentines

Ellie was so excited when she found out she would be passing Valentines out to her classmates.  She asked several times yesterday when she would be able to go buy them.  As soon as she got them home, she had to fill them out and put them together!

Window Beauty

We made these hearts a week or two ago using a salad spinner (I had Rick get one from a thrift store and that one is just for artwork now).  I got the idea here.

Advent Chain

Today, instead of sharing one of my projects, I am sharing something my kids have been working on. Simcha Fisher, a Catholic mom and blogger at The National Catholic Register, shared a file that can be used to make an Advent chain.  I had saved the link and finally this week, with Advent upon us, came up with a plan and got it rolling.

First, I had my kids color the pictures that are on each "link".  This worked out nicely because there are 6 sheets of links and I have 3 children.  :)  After they finished coloring, they cut the strips apart.

Yesterday we took the strips and made a chain out of them, taping the ends together with a piece of Scotch tape so they will be pretty easy to remove from the chain.

Starting tomorrow night, during our bedtime prayers, we will remove one link and read the Bible verse on it. Then they will cut out the picture on that link and I will punch a hole and add a piece of string and they will add it to the little tree the girls have in their room.  If you were following me when I did my Project 365, you may remember this:

Not exactly a Jesse tree, but we are going to make this work with what we have!

There you have it, I am very excited for this because I think it will make us all reflect a bit more on the season and "the reason for the season."  I hope you all have very blessed Advents!