C is for Cupcake

We started today with another trip to Story Time at the local library.  I was so proud of Gooba today.  They start each Story Time out with the kids playing this little red drum and saying a little song that ends with them inserting their name.  Gooba, and the other kids, have been very reluctant to perform this activity during the first two Story Times.  Today Gooba played the drum while I said the song, and at the end of the song she said her name!  She also was a fantastic listener and even participated during the story!  For our craft today we made magic wands, an extra special treat for Gooba, wands are kind of her thing.  Another cute story, we have been calling our Story Time teacher Ms. Dot, only to find out today that her name is Ms. Di.  She told us "My name is actually Ms. Di, like Princess Di." Gooba's response "No, I'm the princess!"  Nice.

After Story Time we went to the park with our cousins - C for cousins!  After the park and lunch with Daddy we went home for a little bit.  Here's what we squeezed in during that little bit of time before going mini golfing and out for chicken and waffles!


First we read Camilla the Cupcake Fairy while we were going potty.  Then we read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, a book we took out at the library.  I found a super cute song on Spell Out Loud that matches up with the book.  We sang the song and put the cute little cupcakes into the cute little cat can I made with the printables from Spell Out Loud.  We did this activity many times and counted the cupcakes. We also counted the cupcakes on the paper.





After we played with the cat and the cupcakes we painted a bottom and a top of a cupcake I cut out of construction paper.  We just painted it with washable paint and a brush.  When it was dry we glued the cupcake together and a put a cherry on the top.  We also added both letter C's onto our background paper.


So again today was kind of a lame learning day, but a super fun day with our family.  Tomorrow I expect more of the same since we are starting our day with gymnastics and then meeting our family at the zoo.  Yikes, having visitors makes me exhausted, and makes our house messy since we haven't been there!  I wouldn't have it any other way, family is so important and special to us we are loving every minute of having them here!