Home school preschool spring week

Home school preschool this week was all about Spring!

I am so glad we are finally here!

I hate winter and even though it's still a little cold I am so excited that there is no more snow!

We read these books

the grouchy ladybug

The flower Prowler

Mr. Gloomingdale's downpour

the tiny seed

We painted a coffee filter and made a butterfly using a clothes pin and googly eyes.

 worked on her numbers with eggs in a nest. the ruler was to help her identify a number. I am trying to get her to be more independent in finding the answers herself.

 we made a puzzle of the parts of a flower

 Thursday was had plans to go the zoo but it rained :(

 Friday we got in our flower garden and planted some seeds and bulbs.

she finished up her alphabet work book with the letter Zz 

next week we will start flash cards. she really only knows about half of the letters by heart so from here on out I will be really trying to work with her on identifying letters better.

 then we worked in her math workbook on shapes. she's great at them but I just wanted to boost her confidence.

I was pretty bummed that we didn't get to go to the zoo so my husband said we will just do a family day this weekend and go together! that sounds better anyways :)

using and maybe abusing Roses

I got a new, fancy, big camera!

It's the Cannon 7D

I have been dreaming of upgrading for years but with new babies, buying a house, new cars, and life seemed to push my dream farther away. 

so I just made do with what I had and I am very proud of all the things my old camera taught me and all the pictures I took with it. 

It's a great camera.

But I want to grow and it had seen better days.

My cousin is taking a photography class in college and asked if he could barrow it. So I am glad that it wont be just collecting dust.

anyway

with an upgrade there are somethings I needed to relearn and a lot of new options!

I am so excited!!!!

so here is my new baby,

getting to know a new camera and posing little ones as models are not the best combinations.

so I started out with some still life 

I had won this bouquet of roses from my mommy meeting earlier this month.

I love those mommies, always brightening up days

These are all sooc. (straight out of camera) no editing. I am pretty proud of them!

then the roses died 

but I didn't want to just toss them. 

and right now I am loving Fine art.

I have been pinning tons of fine art photography (my pinterest) and dreaming of all kinds of concepts.

these last pictures are all done on my phone

 

and the the crafty side of me still didn't want to throw out the dead roses. so.....

eventually I will have to throw them out.

but I can confidently say I got a lot of use out of them.

be on the look out for lots of photography related post

 I have tons of things planned!!

home school preschool St. Patrick's week

Last week we celebrated St. Patrick's day during home school preschool

We learned all about the real St. Patrick

and his story is pretty amazing.

we watched a veggie tales video about him

Then we read a few other stories

St. Patrick's day

That's what Leprechauns do

we tried to wear green most of the week

and we worked on our numbers with a pot of gold

 The made a three leaf clover Trinity. check out her awesome writing skills

God, Son and Holy Spirit

 Then I thought we would do something a little different and paint the windows! 

her face when I told her she was allowed was like shock, scared but excited. I live for those moments when I throw my kids off in a fun way. 

and yes it will take some elbow grease to clean but I would do it all over again to capture this picture!

Home school preschool was cut short this week because I am a HUGE College basketball fan and March madness is my Superbowl! 

I did let her work in her workbook while I was watching the games. and yes I said let her.

she was very upset I didn't plan anything.

goof, it's March Madness what is she thinking?!

Go UK!

splinters and my DIY remedy

When we moved in there was ugly maroon color carpet in the girl's room

the entire rest of the house was hardwood, so I just ripped up the ugly carpet.

well when that ugly carpet was installed they glued it into the floor.

and the glue left black marks all over. 

it's not pretty but the worse part is the floors were not sanded down or smoothed. 

 Eventually we will refinish all the floors 

right now we just don't have it in the budget 

so after four nights in a row of holding a screaming Miss Belle down so Brian can use a needle and tweezers to dig out quite a few deep splinters in her toes. 

We had enough.

I went searching for a rug.

our bedrooms are huge!

the girl's room holds a bunk bed, a single bed, 2 long dressers, one tall dresser, a desk and a toy box!

so I knew we would need a giant rug and I knew I did not want to pay for a giant rug.

so I went shopping for 4 medium size rugs.

 I used fishing line and sewed them together.

it's not the prettiest.

but it only cost me $20 and a sore thumb, sewing through this material wasn't easy.

 it's actually really hard to get a good picture of their room.
 too many beds and dressers in the way.

but you get the idea

 yeah for saving money and no more splinters!!

Pink hair

I wanted to do something fun and different.

pink.

pink hair.

yep

well I kept going back and fourth about doing my whole head or just part of it.

so I went to my dear friend/long time hair stylist Angel (link to her salon) and she suggested I start with just the underpart and then next time go a little more if I want

I liked that.

So she did the first step

then I bought the box at the store and waited a little over a month and did the second step.

here is the before. 

be jealous of my selfies

they a beautiful :P

I typically dye my hair by myself but after many video tutorials I watched It was clear that this stuff is pretty messy and not to do it by yourself.

 while sister was applying it she said "opps!"

and I was scared to look.

luckily we got most of it out.

my neck however is taking a lot longer.......

 

the box includes bleach and the dye

we did both steps and then I had a special deep conditioner bottle that I used afterwards.

another selfie...

here is a video after it's dried

I like it but haven't had much time to actually curl it or fix it.

I am partly waiting till my neck clears up some more.....

This past weekend I took a bubble bath and this happened....

It's fun a different and why not?!?!

you only live once 

let loose and if anything it will be a funny memory my kids will talk about forever....

"remember that time Mom wanted pink hair and ended up dying the dinning room floor, chair, her neck, hands, shirt, kitchen sink, counters, and ruined about 4 bath towels?"

yep I am THAT mom.

p.s. A lot of people ask if my husband likes it.

I don't really know or care lol

It's my hair and he's used to me changing it all the time and sometimes it's drastic changes. I have suggested him doing different things with his hair but he wont so why should I do what he wants lol

he loves me

pink hair and all :)