Veronica Daycare Photo: Making Cookies

Hello Families,

Happy Friday! All of the children have been so happy today. It has been a wonderful day in preschool. This morning we had a cooking activity where all of the children got to make their own pumpkin shaped cookie! Everyone used rollers to flatten their cookie dough and got to add flour to smooth over their dough. For snack, we are eating the cookies that we made! Attached you will find pictures of the children during the activity. Be sure to ask them how they they came out!

 

Hope everyone is having a great day,

Preschool Team

Veronica and her friends Mia, Lucas, and Samuel (all born in Sept 2009)

Max Daycare Photos: Playing Outside

Here are a couple of photos of Max hanging out in the playground with his friends:

Veronica Daycare Photo: Bean Bag Toss!

Hello Families,

Today has been a great day in preschool. Everyone has been so happy to continue our fall curriculum as well as start a new letter of the week. Today in the block corner we had a bean bag toss. Check out these great pictures. The children loved throwing the bean bags into the basket!

This activity supported their fine motor (picking up the bean bag), gross motor (throwing the bean bag) and social (encouraging their friends to get the bags into the basket) development.

Emails from Max

"These R2D2 shoes Mommy got me are the bomb!"

"When you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."

"Forget tummy time, I want to play World of Warcraft!"

"Hey Hillz, I think you should run in '16." (textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com)

(Any other suggestions for a caption are welcome!)

Max Is Sitting Up!

Max has been sitting up for the past couple of weeks and we finally took a couple of photos last night.

 

 And here's one of Veronica showing her spoon hanging skills.

Family, according to Veronica

Little Big Man

Max at 4 months (photo taken Sept 9, 2012)

Making Cookies with Daddy

Veronica and Adrian made sugar cookies while discussing the pennant race last Saturday.

Dynamic Duo

Here are a few photos I took of the dynamic duo the weekend before last at our local farmers' market (click the photos to enlarge):

Veronica Daycare Photo: Pumpkin Face!

Hello Parents,

 

   Today while the children were painting a pumpkin, we asked them how their pumpkin felt and gave them some prompts. Such as, "Is it a happy pumpkin or a sad pumpkin." We then asked the children to make a sad, happy, or mad face to show how their pumpkin was feeling! Later we will paste their pictures onto the pumpkin, but while they are drying I will send the pictures of the children's facial expressions! They are great, try to guess what your child's facial expression was!

 

Best,

Lauren and Aisha 

 

 

Veronica Daycare Photos: Raking Leaves

Hello Families!

    Today we did a lot of activities including leaves. During circle we read a book called, "Leaves are Falling One by One," then during open-play we did leaf rubbings, and glued leaves onto a big tree. Then we went outside to the field and used rakes and wheel barrows to pick up leaves! Such a fun morning, we are enjoying this great fall weather, hope you are too!

Have a great day!

Veronica and her friend Frida raking leaves

Veronica with friends Lucas, Mariam, Gavin and Eli

September 2012 Photo Bomb

September was a busy month for us. Ninong (Jose), Tito Erik, and Charlie visited over Labor Day Weekend. We checked out our local farmers' market, spent time at the playground, went to a birthday party, practiced yoga, and took a tour of a local chocolate factory.

Dancing at the farmers' market.

Inside the big green slide.

Veronica and Tito Erik

Playground time

Swinging at Samuel's 3rd birthday party.

Tito Erik and Max

Charlie coaches Veronica on her downward dog.

Taza chocolate factory tour. Hair nets required! Max is wearing a beard net.

Mommy and Max

Post chocolate factory tour = happy Mommy

Gramps found Maximus his very own beer.

Enjoying the indoor pool at Lola and Gramps' hotel.

Their hotel also had an outdoor pool.

She had a great time in the pools!

 Our local fire station let the kids climb their trucks at an annual event. Here are a few photos:

Daddy and Veronica

Inside a truck.

Veronica and a very big ladder.

Max and Veronica

Enjoying an end-of-summer ice cream cone.

For more September photos, click here.

Veronica's 3rd Birthday Party

I (finally) uploaded the photos from Veronica's 3rd birthday party. Grandmom and John flew from Houston, and Ninang (Aunt Elyse) flew all the way from Seattle. Lola and Gramps and Ninong (Tito Iboy) drove from DC and NYC, respectively, for Veronica's birthday. Thank you all for coming and for helping make Veronica's birthday filled with family and love. She is a very lucky little girl to have such great relatives. Here are just a few photos from the party.

The birthday girl, "I'm three!" (That lovely party dress from Lola lasted all of 10 minutes before it was deemed "itchy".)

Stealing the decorations from the base of the cake pops, handmade by Lola.

Pre-party cupcake. 

Family photo (The best of the bunch we took! Oh well. Notice the different dress.)

Lumpia, deviled eggs, cupcakes, birthday cake, pancit, and cake pops! (Not picture: some really awesome ham.)

She loved her Doc McStuffins (new Disney character) cake and cupcakes.

Nom nom.

Playing with her new Doc McStuffins doctor kit.

Giving Ninong a check up.

Checking Mr. Dolphin's heart beat.

 For more photos of the party, click here.