Groundhog Day 2017

~Groundhog Day~

Happy Groundhog Day 2017! Lydia and I did a lot of fun groundhog day activities with the kids. A lot of these are from previous years. As always, I'll highlight links to the templates/printables in red throughout the post.

Connor and Shaila love this video. It's from Punxtawney Phil's perspective and explains what Groundhog Day is.

 First we did a Happy Groundhog Day coloring page.

 Brandan absolutely LOVES preschool. He did an awesome job on this Groundhog Shadow Matching Game. There is a page with nine shadows on it, and I cut out the corresponding groundhogs for Brandan to match.

 

Next I cut out some blue rectangles out of construction paper and had them paste some green construction paper on top of that. Then the kids cut the top of the green construction paper into little strips so that it looked like grass. They colored this groundhog template and pasted it and cotton balls onto the paper. Very simple, but they had a lot of fun with it!

 Brandan's favorite craft was our toilet paper roll groundhog. All you need for this craft is this template and a gluestick or some tape.

Phil did see his shadow, so we settled in for our 'six more weeks of winter' by finishing off with an Addition and Subtraction Color By Number and some hot chocolate!

Click here to see last year's Groundhog Day post

Twins' 7 Month Update (Siobhan)

~7 Months~

Baxter and Cade, you are seven months old now! You are both cutting your two front teeth, and you are very eager to start eating 'real' food instead of your baby cereal 😉 You love sitting up and playing matchbox cars with each other. Cade is almost crawling, and Baxter seems like he is just going to go straight to walking! You look so similar, but we can already see your two different personalities developing.

 You haven't quite figured out sharing yet!

(Cade)

Baxter

Mischief Managed (Siobhan)

~Mischief Managed~

Baxter and Cade got these adorable 'Mischief Managed' onesies for Christmas. They suit their personalities perfectly 😉

                                              Baxter                                                   Cade

The babies love to play with each other. They are spoiled when it comes to always having a buddy around. The other day they were crying because their exersaucers were on opposite ends of the room!

 

 Cade

 Baxter

 Brandan is thrilled to have little brothers to play cars with!

 They love looking in their mirror together!

Twins' 6 Month Update (Siobhan)

~6 Months~

How can you possibly be half a year old already?! We love you guys more and more every day. You can sit up by yourselves, and you love to eat as much applesauce as we feed you. You play with each other all the time, and your favorite toys are the ones that light up.