It is hard to imagine that my Brodie Bear is 4 years old today. We celebrated his birthday tonight. For dinner he requested steak, spaghetti and corn. And for his cake he wanted a monkey with chocolate chips. Here is what I made for him.
He was pretty excited. I wanted a picture of him and I with the cake and it ended up being quite the funny show.
He had a great night, not only was he excited about the cake he was just as excited about his gifts...Legos.
It's no secret Brodie's favorite animal is the monkey. To go along with our "M" theme this past week we did lots of monkey activities. Brodie was very excited to do this craft. I got the idea from here, and of course changed it up a bit to fit with what supplies I had on hand.
To go along with this craft we also read the book 5 Little Monkeys and the boys took turns looking at the Monkey Lapbook I made them last year.
This week we are talking about the letter "M". We made our version of this cute mouse craft. All you need is construction paper, scissors, and glue. We used felt for the nose, yarn for the tail and of course a googly eye!
Linked to Showcase Friday at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.
Well Jake's first game didn't go very well last night. They got beat 34-0. Jake didn't play a whole lot. When he was in, he played offense. I thought he did pretty good getting to the ball carrier. I realize that I can't sit still when he is on the field. Every time he makes contact I involuntarily lift myself off the bleacher in anticipation!
After the scrimmage he was in the homecoming parade. Unfortunately he was seated on the other side of the fire truck so we didn't get a great shot of him but he heard us yelling at him so he threw us some candy over the back of his head!
(that's Jake with his hand up in the air, behind #58)
It was a great night for a parade.
Here is an activity I did with the boys to go along with our "D" week. Brodie typically hates to have his hands dirty or sticky. I wasn't sure how he would react but he had alot of fun with this.
