We so enjoyed having Memere with us for the past few days! It was such a treat for all of us. Grace and Jack loved their time with Memere. Here are just some of the special Memere memories that will always stay with us ~ going on long walks to the lake, playing at the playground, swimming at the lake beach, swinging soooooooooo high on the swings, going for bike rides with Grace, eating meals together, picking blackberries, golfing, and hammock swinging! Thank you, Memere, for all of your help these past few days and for staying with us an extra day while I recovered from my foot injury.
This was a great activity that really appealed to Grace's sense of touch and smell. First, Grace chose several spices ~ cinnamon, salt, curry, coriander, dill, red pepper flakes, pizza seasoning, parsley, mustard seed, and mint. Next, Grace painted several pieces of paper with glue and then sprinkled the spices over it. 
Once the glue dried Grace was left with pictures that smelled wonderful and they were so visually interesting with such great colors and textures.
Grace couldn't get enough of this spice activity! She loved all of the smells and the different textures of the spices. Grace spent over an hour creating her spice pictures and she later enjoyed playing, mixing and pouring the spices. In the picture above Grace has cinnamon on her forehead. I told Grace that she smelled good enough to eat!!!
The infamous spike in Jack-a-roo's hair was getting a little long so while he was eating his breakfast this morning I took out a pair of scissors and gave Jack his very first haircut! Jack then received another haircut this evening at dinnertime so I could shorten that cute little spike even more!
Jack loves everything about calendar time! Jack crawls over to the calendar door several times each day and kneels so he can pull the calendar pictures off of the velcro in order to examine them more closely. Jack has learned so much from calendar time. Jack identifies apples (we are using apples for our calendar numbers) and he loves all of the songs we sing about the days of the week, numbers, months, seasons, weather, etc. Jack also recognizes the American flag that I have placed on the door and it is his job to remove it from the door each morning and give it to Grace so she can say the Pledge of Allegiance. He loves to wave the flag while we sing "You're a Grand Old Flag." Calendar time is a fun way for Jack to learn so many concepts and it is something we all look forward to each morning!
