sending you love

{not quite} a 3 hour tour

Before we moved, I found a groupon for a boat rental out of Newport.

Chris was just happy that we had our own boat and didn't have to go on a group tour.

Charlie was happy to be able to 'drive' it.

Ethan was not happy with the stink.

But, if you want to cruise close to sea lions, you have to be able to stand a little stink.

friendship corner

A few families from church were so sweet to invite us to join their 'friendship corner'.

It's a preschool co-op type get together. This group has 4 boys {all 4 years old} in it. We switch houses each week and do a little lesson, but mostly just let the boys play together. It was our turn to host last week, so I thought I'd share my lesson plan.

(You know you were NOT MEANT to be a teacher, when you stress over a lesson plan for 4-year-olds who just want to ride their scooters anyway. Note to self.)

theme verse: "A friend loves at all times." Proverbs 17:17

letter: L

shape: heart

color: red

I sent the boys all over the house on a scavenger hunt to find something red:

We played a musical chairs type game, using hearts instead of chairs to this song:

We snacked on red food:
We worked on writing the letter 'L' with these print outs I found.

They each counted out 20 candy conversation hearts and we graphed the colors.

They played our new favorite game: connect 4 launchers:

& they spent the rest of their time together with a lot of scooter riding!

tour of the hedrick house