Adventures of Evie

  Well it's been a hectic and rainy week. We haven't been able to get out much because it's been so yucky. Don't get me wrong, the rain has been needed for the grass and our garden but it hasn't made for a fun week of evenings. So today when we saw the sun peeking out, we knew what we had to do; PLAY! Earlier in the week Evie's sloth machine yielded a messy play day so we took advantage of that today and used our new paint blobs and paint guns to have a paint fight. We had some of these earlier in the year and enjoyed them but now they are 75% off so we ofc had to grab a ton of them to finish out the summer with. After we got cleaned up we decided to take advantage of the evening and went to Kings Island for some fun! Only a few weeks until our last summer together without school looming is here. :( It's going to be bittersweet but I feel so lucky to have been given so much time with this kid. We have had almost two entire years of time together that we wo...

  This week I decided to set Evie up with some various stations she could play/learn at. I was pretty sure she'd gravitate toward the STEM and art tables but she is also huge into sensory play so I wasn't surprised when the learning table was the only one untouched at the end of the day. She started at her chem table. I set up this little chemistry set for her to run some color experiments at and she had a lot of fun mixing them in the tray and watching them bubble and fizz.  But once she saw her sensory station science was off the table. She spent the rest of her hour right here playing with her slime! Last night I prepped this by making a double batch of fluffy slime and then I put a variety of mix ins in the little jars for her to open and mix into her slime. Unsurprisingly they all went in at some point. It was fun to watch her mix them into the slime though. She was very excited at the end to see how her creation would look all mixed together and then she spent a ton of t...