Good Night Moon

This week we did a unit on Good Night Moon (the first real actual BFIAR book). We had fun! Here is a glance at what we did!

Read the book every day

Watched a video of someone reading the book with animation

Read these two complimentary books to the "cow jumping over the moon" and the "3 bears in chairs" from Good Night Moon

Worked on counting some of the items in the book

Ember discovered what mittens were

Found hidden pictures from the book in a salt tray

(I thought this was cooler than Ember did)

Worked on putting together a puzzle of the book cover picture

Had some "red balloons" and "moon and stars" for lunch

Baked "red balloon" cotton balls

This was pretty cool! You mix flour and water together... dip a cotton ball in and bake for about 1 hour. The outside shell becomes hard but the cotton ball stays normal in the middle. The said you could break them with a toy hammer but we didn't have one so we just used our feet :) Ember really really enjoyed this one!

Practiced hanging socks and mittens on a clothes line with clothes pins

Made a moon and star craft

Created our own stars 

Foil on an empty toilet paper roll. Make holes in the foil and then shine a flashlight through the tube.

(This kinda worked.... but not as good as I hoped it would! But Ember loved using the flashlight in her room)

There were SO MANY IDEAS for this book/unit. It was hard to choose which ones to do! But I think we both really enjoyed the activities we ended up doing!

2nd Birthday Party Parade!

Ember loves parades! She loved the 4th of July Parade this year, she loved thinking we were in a parade when we did the Climb to Conquer Cancer in August, and one of her absolute favorite parts of Disneyland last week was Mickey's Soundsational Parade. So... when I saw this idea, I knew it would be PERFECT for Ember's 2nd party! 

The supplies

The birthday girl!

All set up and ready to go! 

(the weather was not cooperating with us as well as last year and we decided last minute to have all of the party inside besides the actual parade. I am glad we made that decision because there was more wind and rain than we anticipated!)

The snack table

Choose a Necklace

Table to make a Dancing Ribbon Ring

And the station outside for decorating "floats"

Ember is ready for the fun to begin!!

Everyone is here! It was nice and cozy!

Getting ready for the parade with streamers and balloons!

Time for the parade!! We had parade music playing from speakers in the wagon Dustin was pulling and my mom was handing out candy to any of the condo residents who came out to watch. We put flyers on everyone's door inviting them to come out and cheer us on and about 15 residents accepted! Not bad for a rainy, chilly day!

Luke brought his Powerwheels Jeep and it was pretty hilarious to watch him running into bushes and plowing through the complex. His dad sure got a workout :)

The whole group!

And then it started raining immediately after these pictures! Talk about perfect timing!

We headed inside to sing Happy Birthday and have cupcakes!

Then Ember opened her presents!

The kids running around after the party while the adults still hung out!

We are extremely blessed by all our family and friends that helped celebrate our little girl and make her feel special on her 2nd birthday!