Adventures of Evie

This week we discovered that some birds had made a nest in one of our trees in the backyard. This happens pretty much every year but usually the nests are too high for us to see them. This year if you look just right you can see the three little baby birds in the nest. Evie discovered this this morning when she found a little egg in her plastic pool. After she found the egg and we found the birds we decided to go on a little hunt to see what else we could find. Almost immediately we found another bird egg in our side yard. The first egg Evie bound was small, blue, and speckled. The second egg we found was white with large spots. After finding both eggs and realizing that bird eggs are not all the same Evie really wanted to go see if we could find some more. So we took a little basket down to the park I looked for eggs along the way. We ended up with three eggs and a pine cone . She was so interested in the eggs and what birds had laid them that we almost missed the bus! But luckil...

Now that the house is spotless, and we've had some time to rest and relax we are starting to play fun games and learn a little bit at home again. Today I made Evie a large blind box and we played some sensory games where we put things in the box, and we had to guess what they were. We also have some matching cards with different textures on them and I would let her put her hand in the box feel the texture of what was in there and try to match it to the cards that we had. She really loves games like this where she gets to guess at things, and she had a lot of fun putting things in the box so that I had to guess too ! This was a super easy game to set up and she played it for most of the morning. We've done this one a few times in the past and it still seems to be a favorite so I'm sure we'll do it again in the future!  

Well, the warm weather is gone and the chilly weather is back. We still managed to spend a little bit of time outside today but it was pretty chilly for the most part . We're working really hard on getting back into our routines and because we were gone for a whole week a lot of things around the house have definitely fallen through the cracks. To give us some motivation we decided to make a fun game to help us clean. So today while E vie was at school I made us a cleaning game with a side quest deck. When she got home, she was so excited to help me play the game and clean up the house. She was actually a really huge help and vacuum some floors, clean some mirrors, and cleaned up a bunch of her toys. At the end of the game she earned some quarter tickets which she can exchange later for 15 minute segment of time or quarters if she likes. it was a fun way of getting her involved in the cleaning and also keeping us on a schedule.  

We're starting to get settled back in from Spring Break. It's been rough getting back into the groove, especially since I don't have my car this week. But we're working on it. Today we mostly just played outside leading up to school. It was so pretty out and since we had a hectic return I didn't get much planned. At school Evie got to write a sentence and draw a photo of what she did on Spring Break. We did a FULL sweep of the east coast and although we were mostly based out of Boston on the trip she saw a number of cool things. A mansion modeled after Versailles palace, The Liberty Bell, an art installation in the park, street art, Harvard University, the oldest city in Maine, a really nice beach, Niagra Falls, the White Mountains, and plenty of other things. To be fair Boston is not new to her since we go annually and have since she was born, but I did think the rest would be really cool. But what did Evie draw for her class? The Salem Witch graveyard. -_- Yep. Sh...