Our little To-Do Board

I saw on How Does She of this girl doing a little board for her son of what they were going to do that day. The board had things on it like brush teeth, bedtime, go potty, etc. I thought that Zach could benefit from a board like that too. Instead I did a Today and Tomorrow board. I didn't want to overwhelm him with too much, but I wanted him to see what was going to happen the next day, so that he could look forward to it and get excited.

Zach LOVES it. He points out different things on the board with a huge grin....like the go to the park tomorrow card. It also helps him do his "chores", like help feed the dogs and clean his room. I started having him make his bed as well and help water the plants. He goes to the board a number of times a day and when he completes a task he takes down that card.

He has different fun cards in there as well, like go to Disneyland, the beach, the park, the zoo, etc. Those are the cards he really likes.

Zachary's To-Do Board For Sunday and Monday

I just used a large magnetic white board I found at Walmart and covered it with cute BOY scrapbook paper. I even covered the round magnets with cute paper too.

Now all we need to do is hang it in HIS room

Link to the original blog where you can download a lot of the cards you see. The other cards I used her template and just copy and pasted my images over them. Like the go to the park card

http://www.howdoesshe.com/how-to-create-a-visual-schedule-for-your-family

Baby Animals

At the Hartvigson Farm there are a lot of baby animals being born.

Fist is this Cute little baby goat. It was so soft and little. The kids didn't really want anything to do with it

 See Madison giving it the eye like "come any closer and I'll scream"

 The only way to get her any closer was to hold it and be in the picture myself.

 (I like how the mama is looking in from the side)

 These baby chicks were so cute and we really wanted to hold them, but that mama hen was VERY protective. You stick you hand in there and she would peck it off.

 The kids favorite of course was the baby kittens

No kittens were harmed in the taking of these photos

The Very Silly Caterpillar

We found a Caterpillar in our yard (which is very rare) and the kids thought it was so silly

At first they didn't want to touch it

 Whenever Madison would to pick it up she feel the little prickles and drop it

 Zach said it was tickling him

 "Um Mom there is something on my head.....please remove it"

 Koda thought it was something to eat and wanted to investigate more

Overall the kids loved it and didn't want me to put it back where we found it

Easter Day

Easter Morning started out with fun Easter Baskets

 Zach went straight for the game Wacamole

 He loves his new frog

 Madison loved her new bunny

 Madison's Easter Dress

We hope everyone had a fun Easter (a month ago)

Hunt those Eggs

The kids had a few Egg Hunts for Easter.

First official one was with Playgroup at the park.

 Another was with their cousins at my parents house

 Zach found a hard boiled egg and was like "what is this" and threw it on the ground

 She was really going for that one

 "Look Mom the egg is right there.....now get it for me"

We did a number of "mock" Easter egg hunts at home, prepping for the real egg hunts. The kids LOVED hunting for Easter eggs, but loved it more when they had candy in them. We ended up with SO much candy that we are still eating it.