Eclectic Parent

No idea what the kids got up to today. Sleep over at grandma and papa’s house!

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OK random moments from the month that I’d meant to blog but forgot about until we uploaded some photos.

We graphed gummy bears. Yummy math. We graphed by color. Even our 2 yo got it with help. We colored in the number of each color. The best part of the project was eating the manipulatives.

C […]

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We went to an event today called Mighty Mud Mania on Friday. What more do you want, really? We had a great time. There were obstacle courses (through the mud of course), mud pits, climbers and play houses in fields of gooey mud. There was a giant sand castle building area, huge slip ‘n slides, […]

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One of the biggest things recommended to promote a love of reading in your children is to let them see you read. Sounds great. I LOVE to read. I’m a back of cereal boxes, fine print at the bottom of ads, anything that stands still long enough reader. Admittedly my reading used to contain […]

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TV. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Some days I really think we should unplug it, get rid of it, use it for a big doorstop. It sucks up so much time that could be spent doing other things. It’s mind numbingly bad much of the time. But then you have days when the […]

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Last day of soccer camp today. Kid’s really enjoyed it. We went swimming afterward with some friends we haven’t seen in about a year. So three hours of soccer, home for lunch and then about 3 hours of swimming. They were so tired they were falling asleep as we left. 4:30 is way to late […]

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Today was the fourth day of camp. Daddy brought the video camera to camp today. We’ll have to see what we got out of that. Afterwards they went swimming; camp is at the Y after all. So after three hours of soccer and one hour of swimming, D had lunch and hour to rest and […]

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Tuesday night’s soccer camp homework was done Wednesday morning. By the time gymnastics gets out, it’s dinner, bath, bed. Tuesday night’s homework was to make a healthy drink. The coach was explaining the energy drinks aren’t good for them and they were supposed to come up with something. Well we were pretty low on groceries […]

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Tuesday C stayed the full three hours with D. That’s a lot of running on little legs. Of course D then went off to three hours of gymnastics Tuesday night! That’s a whole lotta exercise. They had a lot of fun though. They are really loving soccer camp. Between 9 - 12 soccer and 3:30 […]

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So this week we’ve had soccer camp. It’s at the Y but run by another company; I’m really impressed. They didn’t get nearly enough people, but instead of the usual move of canceling the whole thing, the coach has done an amazing job of blending extremely different age groups together. There was supposed to be […]

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