The Library and Holidays in the Village

We had a lovely time at the library. It was the first time Kali was out of her stroller and exploring there.

 Not only did we happen to be there for stories and song time, Logan got a magic key so Santa could get in our house and he told the librarian about a book he read so he could get a star to decorate and put on the tree.

 Kali clapped and cheered for Logan

 "Cookie? No, Logan didn't give me a cookie? Why do you ask?"

 We went to the Community Safety Village of York Region's "Celebrations of Cultures". Logan was so thrilled to drive in the golf cart from the parking lot with daddy!

 On a wagon ride around the village

 Logan loved these!

 With the safety beaver -see the cute little village behind us? Adorable isn't it? Inside each building was a craft, activity or food item sponsored by a cultural or religious group from York Region. We got our names written on bookmarks in Japanese, we tasted samosas,  we had Tartar Russian tea, played jingle bells to Bahai songs and looked at art from different countries. So much fun!

 These blow-up decorations are always a big hit with Logan

 Making jingle bells and gingerbread in "Santa's Workshop"

 Hot chocolate and timbits --Santa must be Canadian!

 Surprisingly Logan sat and watched the kids sing like a dozen Christmas Carols. He really liked watching the older kids

Rainy AND Snowy Weekend

We had both rain AND snow this weekend. Someone needs to send Mother Nature a memo and let her know it's almost May. We kept busy this weekend doing lots of fun things inside.
Making muffins is always fun for Logan. After dance class, Logan helped by counting out the muffin liners and putting them in the tin.

He loves licking the spoon just as much as eating the muffins.
Tip: We use an ice cream scoop to fill the muffins up -great for toddlers and gets the perfect amount in! Logan now knows how to press the button on it himself.

We went to the larger library in the afternoon. Logan found a few books about dancing and even a book on Usher!

Reading the Dance book

Reading a book that Logan picked out called the ABC's of Art -it shows a famous painting for each letter of the alphabet. Logan even recognized a bunch of them from the Little Einstein videos.

We went on a "treasure hunt"; up the elevator to the top floor!

Logan spotted a painting on the wall: "Look, Mommy! It's an art show!!"

Logan's always excited to help out in taking care of his sister.

It wouldn't be a complete weekend without dressing up as MJ and singing and dancing.

Logan's been wanting a headset like Micheal has in some of his concerts. He has a microphone stand and a microphone but no headset! Oh no! He use to hold the microphone at the side of head for these parts. We looked at the toy stores for one and then Allan just took the XBox headset and tied up the cord for Logan --perfect!

Playing with magnets

Snack time!

Doing something a bit different for bath time...

We worked on some Mother's Day crafts. We were watching the show Calillou and we saw him make flowers out of paper and pipe-cleaners. Looked pretty easy in the cartoon so we gave it a try ourselves!

We used foam instead of paper and drew out flower shapes to cut. Logan was having some trouble cutting the shapes so instead I cut a circle and he put snips all around the edges.

Poke a pipe cleaner through and you have a very simple and easy preschooler craft for Mother's Day!

We also decorated a box for Uncle D.

Logan loves stickers and we have a bunch of these, so this was a good craft --plus it actually turned out looking very nice too!

Logan gathered all the books about babies and read them to Kalia and I.

In Logan's swim class they took the boat again to the deep-end.

This time they had the kids get out of the boat and stand at the side. Each one took turns jumping into the deep-end with their life jacket and then floating on their back and kicking. We're so happy that Logan is enjoying his classes and it's such an important skill to know too!

We also met up with Uncle D -to give him the box we decorated and to ask him to be Kalia's Godfather!

Logan Loves to Read

Logan really enjoys our trips to the library. When we go he gets to pick out three videos and three books. At bedtime, Logan picks out three books to read. When we read at night Logan follows along in the book with his finger -either on his own or he asks us to move his finger over the words as we read.

The other day Logan sat on the floor and was "reading" some books while I changed Kalia's diaper. This is actually pretty common for him to pretend to read but this time he he was pointing to words and pretending --gotta be some kind of milestone.