Robots, Roosters, & Rain (R Day)

We took a breather from Letter Days. We were both starting to get a bit burnt out, so we took it easy for a few days. R Day ended up spanning across a few days. But we finally got through everything.

We did the Do-A-Dot sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler and talked about R words. His favorite was "Roar!" He spent some time practicing his roaring. He is all boy!

"Roar!"

R as in Rainbow!

I got the Rainbow Fish from the library and we talked about rainbows. We did a color sorting activity with a rainbow and Fruit Loops.

R as in Robot!

Dylan has been obsessed with Wall-E since we watched it on W day. He asked to watch it again, so we watched it and talked about robots.

That lead to us building our own robot. I wrapped a pudding box and toilet paper rolls in foil, and a Kleenex box in black construction paper. Dylan picked out the pipe cleaner arms and told me where to draw the eyes and mouth. After that he said, "Where da buttons?" So I let him pick out one of his Do-A-Dot markers and put some buttons on the robot.

R as in Rooster!

I got another book from the library called "The Mixed-Up Rooster." We read that book and then made our own rooster with a red cutout of Dylan's hand print and a couple other cutouts glued to a paper plate. Then, Dylan gave his rooster eyes with his Do-A-Dot marker. He decided his rooster should have brown eyes so he picked his brown marker.

When we finished the rooster he said, "Dat was cool! What other animals can we make?" Oh geez!

R as in Rain!

We put on Dylan's rain boots and raincoat and I gave him an umbrella. And I sang Singing in the Rain while D danced and played with the umbrella.

A couple days ago, we also watched the Sesame Street Letter R Mystery episode and ate rolls and rice. We finished our R stuff today by reading the Velveteen Rabbit and watching Robots the movie. I am just about R-ed out.

Maybe we can get back into the swing of things and knock the rest of the alphabet out!

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On a side note: my dad and step-mom were here for a few days and Poppy decided that he wanted to play in the snow and build a snowman with D. They both had a blast!

A New Home for the Sitko's

We woke up to our first morning in Moline Illinois to about 5 inches of snow on the ground. We had perfect weather for our entire drive, aside from the last 45 minutes that showered us with a little rain. It started snowing about an hour after we pulled into Mom & Bob’s driveway. Perfect, right?

We went from nice, warm (or somewhat cool) weather in Georgia to cold, cold days in Illinois. I must have spent too many years in a warm climate. I lived in the Mid-West for 22 years…why am I so cold all of the sudden? But the cold wasn't slowing Dylan down one bit. And he looks darn cute all bundled up!

We had almost a week until our things were to show up at our new house, so we were spending some time at Grandma Linda & Grandpa Bob’s house. But we also spent most of our time working on our future house. We were cleaning the house, fixing small things, and filling up the fridge and pantry. Busy, busy, busy!

Then March 1st came and so did all of our Household Goods! Our house was about to become our home! Once again we had wonderful weather while they movers were unloading and it was followed by an afternoon of snow that started about 2 hours after they left. Thank you, Mother Nature, for your kindness!

The first room we tackled was Dylan’s. His room is awesome!  

Dylan has now made the transition to his big boy bed! And he is a rockstar!

He loves his bed and hasn’t had any problems with the transition. Here I was, all worried that he'd roll out, or be confused about his new room, or not even stay in the bed all night. He proved me wrong on that first night. And he is almost always waking up (in the morning or after his nap) in a good mood. Such a big boy!

Mom and Bob have helped me so much here at the house. Not only did they put in an unbelievable amount of man-hours before we got to town, but they helped us unpack and make our house a home. It's still not perfect, but it's getting cozy...and we are happy.

And the only reason we have this house is because of our landlady, Grandma Gisele. She seems to really like us being here, and I think it makes her happy to see her house as a home again. I'm sure we're going to make lots of happy memories here.