Pruitt Playschool (Letter C)

We have been learning about the letter "C" the past few weeks. Owen has had a lot of fun learning about the letter "C" even though we have been really busy with traveling, celebrating Grace Ann's birthday, and going on a special trip! There were so many fun things to do with this letter!

Our Bible verse the past few weeks:

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

We started off by coloring some cupcakes on the letter "C'. Owen does NOT like to color at all!!  I'm not sure why he is so against it, but hopefully he will like it a little better when he is older.

Owen colored a cupcake and then we glued candles on top of it! LOVE how he is concentrating so hard in this picture!

We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle...

...and then made our own caterpillar out of construction paper!

We took our cars through a car wash (Owen's latest obsession!). This was by far his favorite activity over the past few weeks!! We used some of Justin's shaving cream to clean our cars and I made a "wiper thing" but cutting up an old rag and tying pieces of it to the end of a spoon!  It worked great! :)

Homemade car stamps using bottle tops and foam stickers!

I have been saving small containers with tops over the past few months for this activity. He had to match the top with the correct container and then had to screw on the top! This activity was a lot of fun and I'm still collecting different size bottles.

We made the letter "C" by gluing Cheerios on some paper.  He did great with this activity and glued the cheerios all by himself!

I had some leftover cupcake stickers from Grace Ann's birthday invitations so we sorted them by color!

We made a crab using our hands! I don't really like to use "real" paint that often, so Owen really enjoyed this craft!

I dumped some Cheerios into a big bowl and hid some letter "C's" in there for him to find with his "grabber". Once he found them, he stuck them on some construction paper.

We practiced cutting on the white line of some paint chips! He is doing so well with his cutting! I think I need to buy this boy some left-handed scissors! :)

Dot Paint!! We read a Cookie Monster book and then painted Cookie Monster using blue dot paint.

Our bulletin board will some of our crafts we made for the letter "C"!

Owen's Special Trip

Back in the Fall, we won a free stay in a hotel for the TOMA convention in Gatlinburg at the end of April.  We decided to just take Owen and make this a "special trip" for him while Norma stayed at our house and watched Grace Ann.  Justin had a meeting all day on Friday, so me and Owen just spent the day going to an indoor zoo, eating FREE chick-fil-A, and swimming in the pool at the hotel! When Justin finished with his meetings on Friday, we went out to eat with the Cozart's and then went back to the pool to swim some more! We got up early on Saturday morning and ate breakfast at a pancake log cabin, then went to the aquarium! Owen had a blast on his "special trip"!!

We went to the pool 3 different times while we were there! He loves the water!

SHARKS!! Owen was so excited to see the sharks at the aquarium!

LOVE this boy!!

Owen enjoyed lots of daddy time on our trip!



Grace Ann is ONE!

My little cupcake is ONE!! I can't believe how quickly this year has gone!  I made Grace Ann some pancakes on her birthday and put a candle in them! She LOVES pancakes just like me and Owen! 

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This is a picture of Owen with his pancakes on his first birthday...almost TWO years ago! :)

We had fun celebrating her actual birthday with just our little family, but we were so excited for the rest of our family to come visit the next day! 

Dancing with daddy before bed!

I found so many cute ideas on Pintrest for a cupcake birthday party! Here is the invitation we made:

Birthday wreath using cupcake liners! SO EASY!!

Birthday banner that I made using my embroidery machine!! I was really happy with the way it turned out! :)

Flowers that Norma picked from our backyard! So pretty!

Cupcake stand from Hobby Lobby that I decorated with ribbon and bows!

Centerpiece using cupcake liners and ribbon!

Bib that I made Grace Ann!

I found this really neat pin the candle on the cupcake game on Pintrest that I made! I thought it turned out really cute even though the kids were not that interested! Ha! I'm still glad I made it and hope to use it her birthday parties for years to come!

I made this top for Grace Ann! The fabric is some of the fabric my mom used in her I-spy quilt! 

Showing us that she can crawl on top of the picnic table that Norma got her!

Justin made some amazing BBQ for her birthday! Here he is "rubbing it like you love it" (quote from Dr. Wieting) getting it ready to put on the smoker! He got the recipe from one of the PM&R doctors at his school. Never know when those anatomy gloves will come in handy! Ha!

 The two little lovebirds enjoying a picnic...in the laundry room! :)

Showing off her sunglasses! She looks so grown up in the picture!!

Happy FIRST Birthday Sweet Girl!! :)

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! I met my mom at the outlets in Sevierville on Saturday to shop while Justin stayed at home at played with the kids! It was so much fun to shop with my mom without the kids (and much faster!)!  After spending the day shopping, my mom followed me back to our house to spend Easter with us!

Owen was very interested in coloring the eggs this year! 

Concentrating so hard on gently putting the egg in the cup!



The Easter bunny came! These are the Easter baskets that Justin and I used growing up! :)

Family picture after church!

Hiding the eggs for the 8th time for Owen!

My pretty little princess! :)  It's hard to believe looking at this picture that she got kicked out the nursery before the service even started just and hour earlier...

Look no hands!!