Caroling at Park Club Nursing Home

We had a nice time singing a few carols for the seniors at the home.

Creative uses for holiday cards..

The hostess of this playdate had the great idea to re-use holiday cards and cut them out, arrange them like a stable / manager scene and add some fun decor.

Wonderful activity for fine motor skills.

I didn't get a picture of the final product,

but you can see Julian working on his above.

Candy Cane Lane

We went to a playdate called "Candy Cane Lane". It started off with the host reading a book called J is for Jesus (you can find it here on Amazon, I highly recommend it).

Then, the kids made a candy cane craft and had some cookies (candy cane of course).

Cookie Cutter Kids

At this playdate, the kids had the opportunity to roll out cookie dough (and eat some too) and use Christmas-y cookie cutters.

Cookie Monster

Today we celebrated Cookie Monster's Birthday. I put up left over birthday decorations and balloons and invited our PALS over. We read "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar", made a construction paper cookie and decorated it and then decorated a real cookie.

This was Aislinn's sprinkled cookie. A little overboard with the sprinkles. LOL

And of course, they taste-tested the cookies.

Picnic at the Park

Today was a beautiful "fall" day in Florida so we had a picnic at the park.

Perfect gorgeous weather for it and we all really enjoyed it.

Lots of pics :)

This slide is really cool and it is small tubes so you slide down it really easily.

This round thing, goes round and round like a modern day merry-go-round.


This death trap, I mean, shape caterpillar is fun for the little ones, but injury producing contraption for bigger bodies (like mine).



I loved how A's is holding onto Julian for dear life!

This cute little bucket seat swivels round and round.

These kids aren't scared of anything!! Thats a pretty high ropes course.

This is kinda like a teeter totter but cooler, i guess. :)

All in all, we had a great day~

Ooey Gooey

We went to a PAL's house for a playdate and to make roasted pumpkin seeds. Only Aislinn would cooperate with retreiving the seeds out of the pumpkin. It was a slimey gooey job, but someone had to do it. I think she liked it though.

Trick or Treat

We went with our PALS to the Senior Home to Trick or Treat. It was so much fun. The seniors loved handing out candy and talking to the kids about what they use to dress up as when they were small.

Making Scarecrows...

First off, let me say a huge THANKS to the wonderful organizer of our playgroup, Brandy at Adventures of a Flake, for setting this playdate up. I had been looking forward to it for a while and we really loved our final product.

Aislinn stuffing the "head".

It was a little harder than it looks. I ended up doing the head stuffing. LOL

Julian drawing his "scary" face.

Onto the task of actually stuffing the scarecrow.

Julian dancing with his scarecrow.

Most of the kids snuck in some hay time play.

Look how cute, they are holding hands LOL

Monster Hands

We went to another PAL'shouse to make scary monster hands.

Healthy Recipe Playdate

We went to our PALS' house to exchange recipes of healthy food. I forgot to take a pic of the healthy food, but I got one of Julian eating a carrot.