Back at it!

 So this week we are back to summer, no fun cousins staying over, no friends visiting from out of town, no camps, just the three of us hitting the summer days and trying to catch up on some rest from our last two weeks of kinda crazy, we need to get even keel before we head on vacation so we have been doing lots of fun summer things at home I went through and made a summer calendar week by week for all the weeks we don't have something big going on, ie vacation, or people visiting, camps, etc  I put 3 fun things on each day of the work week for the three of us to do together and then a sensory activity most of which focusing on the main goals both the kids are working on this summer, not to say we won't be doing other things or that the rest of the time they are on their own, they aren't but I have so many fun ideas and things I want to do with them I thought it best to make a plan, so far it has been great. We started off the week with wet and dry opposites and talking about even things or people that are different can find a way to work or be together. Jimmys is on the wet side here Marshmallows in water yep a weird feeling he is digging out letters of the alphabet, then he moved on to some basic grabbing and manipulating skills as well as stirring and strengthening type activities he wanted to eat the marshmallows but only a few went missing. 

 Addy is working with the dry, Oatmeal salt and Cinnamon the cinnamon gives it a nice smell that works with senses that may have other wise been left out of this activity the salt is really weird in with the oatmeal but great for experiencing the difference between the two wet and dry. After they had both fully checked out and played with each bin we added water to the oatmeal to see what would happen, the kids loved that, and ended up adding a lot more water Jimmy really like seeing the oatmeal change its consistency, but instead he found after the initial  soaking the oats just flooded with too much water. The last part of this activity was them washing up the mess, they do love to wash dishes and that they did, they washed up their tools so they were clean for the next day. We do love summer and that they can make messes outside all day if they want, so fun! We also love the lazy days of summer, even though we LOVE having company hint hint to anyone wanting to visit, we do love just kicking it. yesterday when Doug came home we were enjoying the large driveway, camping chairs and sidewalk chalk, does it get much better then that?