Well, its been an exciting couple of days here at Monarch Kids. The babies are growing up for sure! It's amazing how fast they change! New teeth, new foods, rolling over, grabbing feet, laughing... So much to keep up with, but man is it fun!
Next week a couple of my older kids will be here since they're off for summer vacation. We'll start off their break with a bang by playing miniature golf and going to the Littleton Historical Museum. I think I've blogged about this place before - it is an outdoor living history museum with animals, blacksmiths, old one-room school houses, barns, and much more. And its free! Its a beautiful place to take the kids for a walk and see some amazing things from our history. So we're looking forward to that for sure.
I've wanted to get outside more and go for walks and to the park, but it has been so incredibly windy lately! So hopefully it will let up here soon. And this weekend I'll be going to the store to purchase some flowers, plants and herbs for the kids and I to plant next week. What fun!
Thanks for reading - I'll write more later on this week!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Prepping for a Garden
Hello there friends!
Today I worked in the backyard and started preparing a spot for a garden. I love gardening so much and its also such a great activity to do with kids. I found this article that talked about different ideas for planting a garden with kids. It mentioned a "pizza garden", where you plant tomatoes, peppers, onions, basil...basically anything you would want to put on a pizza. Another idea they had was to plant a "rainbow garden". This would obviously have many different colored flowers and you could arrange them as a rainbow. How fun! I think we'll start with the pizza garden idea so that we can not only have fun planting the food, but also enjoy eating it! The area I'm using is a small plot of land which is great - I certainly don't want to bite off more than I can chew!
Well, thanks for reading. I'll keep you posted on the garden and other fun happenings at Monarch Kids!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Today I worked in the backyard and started preparing a spot for a garden. I love gardening so much and its also such a great activity to do with kids. I found this article that talked about different ideas for planting a garden with kids. It mentioned a "pizza garden", where you plant tomatoes, peppers, onions, basil...basically anything you would want to put on a pizza. Another idea they had was to plant a "rainbow garden". This would obviously have many different colored flowers and you could arrange them as a rainbow. How fun! I think we'll start with the pizza garden idea so that we can not only have fun planting the food, but also enjoy eating it! The area I'm using is a small plot of land which is great - I certainly don't want to bite off more than I can chew!
Well, thanks for reading. I'll keep you posted on the garden and other fun happenings at Monarch Kids!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Long Time, No Write
Hello everyone -
It has been way too long since I've written in this blog - I'm so sorry about that!
One big reason why I haven't blogged is that my husband and I had a baby girl at the beginning of the year! We love being parents - it has blessed our lives tremendously. So I took some time off to spend with her before starting the child care back up again.
For a couple of months now, we've been back in full swing. I have another infant that comes everyday - he's 2 months older than my daughter. It's been a blast seeing them interact each day. For a while she didn't notice him at all, but now she really is starting to. Sometimes I'll lay them both down on a blanket and they just stare at each other and talk to each other. He's starting to roll over so he usually tries to roll to her and touch her. I'm teaching him about being gentle:)
What else can I share? I'm so thankful its getting warmer outside. Now we can start to go to parks and long walks in the afternoon. I also bought new outdoor play equipment for the older kiddos and they've been having fun with that stuff. I have a ring toss game that we like to play frequently. One of my older girls is becoming quite the accomplished hula-hooper! She can even go from around her head to around her waist to around her knees. Wow!
Well, thanks for reading and I'll be sure to blog more frequently now. I hope you all have a great Tuesday!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
It has been way too long since I've written in this blog - I'm so sorry about that!
One big reason why I haven't blogged is that my husband and I had a baby girl at the beginning of the year! We love being parents - it has blessed our lives tremendously. So I took some time off to spend with her before starting the child care back up again.
For a couple of months now, we've been back in full swing. I have another infant that comes everyday - he's 2 months older than my daughter. It's been a blast seeing them interact each day. For a while she didn't notice him at all, but now she really is starting to. Sometimes I'll lay them both down on a blanket and they just stare at each other and talk to each other. He's starting to roll over so he usually tries to roll to her and touch her. I'm teaching him about being gentle:)
What else can I share? I'm so thankful its getting warmer outside. Now we can start to go to parks and long walks in the afternoon. I also bought new outdoor play equipment for the older kiddos and they've been having fun with that stuff. I have a ring toss game that we like to play frequently. One of my older girls is becoming quite the accomplished hula-hooper! She can even go from around her head to around her waist to around her knees. Wow!
Well, thanks for reading and I'll be sure to blog more frequently now. I hope you all have a great Tuesday!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
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