Sometimes the best pictures are captured on my cell phone, although not the best quality, I love them because they are real life.  Usually not staged, just us living life.  I am loving this season (of life) right now.  Both girls are super fun and becoming more and more independent.  Can you believe that Naomi will be 1 in a month?!?

If Naomi is up when Joe is getting ready for work in the morning, she stands up next to him, holding onto his leg while he gets ready.  Melt my heart...this girl loves her daddy!

 My little gymnast!  

 

Okay, so I went to the most AMAZING dinner party last weekend. It was a dinner in honor of baby Asher, my friend, Hillary's baby (he is due in August).

The guys aka, chefs served us a four course feast over 2.5 hours.  Seriously, so good and better than a restaurant!  

Hillary and I (She is one of the many reasons I love Colorado)

Daddy's girls

Fishy lips

Joe had a business trip last week and I had to snap a few pics of the girls loving on him before he left.

Waving bye bye

I couldn't resist...Mia in her leotard.

 

 And, I will leave you with a picture of Naomi getting over my ghetto baby gate and her proud sister egging her on. 

Here is our letter of the week from last week.  We had fun with the letter K even though the weather didn't allow us to go outside and fly a kite.  We made the best of it by making our own indoor kite. : )

All of these books are great!  The Kissing Hand and A Pocket Full of Kisses are both a little long, but very sweet stories.  (When reading books that are a little too long for Mia, I just skip over some of the words so she can still get the main idea of the story.)

K is for Kite

Put four pieces of construction paper together and draw a diamond.

Cut the pieces out and let your little one color.

Tape the pieces together (this was Mia's favorite part).

While your little one is coloring, draw a large K on a different color paper.

Glue the K to the front and run around the house to 'fly' your kite!

 

K is for Kisses

Mia puckering up with her lip gloss on. : )

Kissing the Kk sheet to make kiss prints.

Link to Kk printable

K is for Kangaroo

Link to printable kangaroo craft

Just a word of caution...I usually love the books in the Sound Box series but this one had a lot of words that were confusing for Mia, such as a jackrabbit, jack o'lantern, jonquil and jackal (I'm all about exposing Mia to a variety of words but these were a bit much).  Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes is an alphabet book that is really creative and silly.  I loved that even though the text was quite short, the illustrations included several pictures to represent each letter.  The Story of Jesus is a great introduction to Jesus for the little ones. 

J is for Jelly Beans

I bought a bag of jelly beans on clearance after Easter and decided to try and paint with them.  Mia REALLY enjoyed this (or maybe she really enjoyed putting them in her mouth).  Even though the color wasn't super bright, it was still really fun and I would recommend trying this if you have some jelly beans hiding in your pantry.

Once Mia was done painting, she put all of the jelly beans in the water.  We talked about what would happen and she thought it was pretty cool that all the color came off of them and the water turned dark (see water below).

Lastly, she glued jelly beans to the Jj sheet.  I put the glue on and let her put the jelly beans on.

We also did some uppercase/lowercase sorting.  This was from a workbook but you could easily recreate this at home.

J is for Jellyfish

Supplies needed: plastic container (ours was from strawberries). crepe paper, ribbon, scissor, glue and a pipe cleaner.

Rub glue inside the container and stick on the crepe paper.  

I held the container and rotated it once a side was full, but Mia did the rest on her own.

Once you are done gluing the crepe paper, you can also add some curling ribbon.

Attach pipe cleaner to the top and hang up to enjoy!

We had good intentions of going to see the jellyfish at the aquarium this week, but there was a snowstorm on the day we were planning on going. : (

J is for Jesus

I set up our Little People Nativity set on the art table for Mia to play with.  We also used this to talk about where Jesus was born and who was there.  I found this cute coloring sheet at Confessions of a Homeschooler. 

Check out how well Mia is coloring now!  I was so impressed (I only helped her trace the Jj).

Up next week...the letter Kk.