pumpkin patchin' number 4

i watched the sigl girls for an afternoon and in a shocking turn of events... decided to take them to a pumpkin patch! duh. it's always fun to practice life with four kids. i think i pretty much have it down. pretty much. 

dr. maze's farm

woodland park zoo

i had the sigl ladies for a few days and they were desperate to go to the zoo. i was nervous to do a four on one seattle excursion, but gosh darn it if i'm not a people pleaser... even when it comes to children! so we went, and it was pretty much fine. jane likes to imitate all things involving heath, so she had to bring a baby and a car seat (for safety...duh), and a stroller, and a diaper bag packed with all the same things as my diaper bag. it's a good thing the whole idea of it is precious... or i might have freaked out the 5th time that baby came bouncing out of it's car seat that was shadily jammed into the stroller and jane had a panic attack over the welfare of her child. oh man. i love my little mini me. AND he will never ever remember or realize this, but it was heath's first trip to the zoo! oh baby boy... you are growing up quick. 

animal-palooza week!

make something monday: animal shirts

we decorated tshirts with animals using a bleach pen. old navy had shirts on the cheapie cheap ($5!) and i got a bleach pen at target. you never know what color the bleach will turn the shirt... bleach is weird like that, so it's kind of a fun surprise. i printed out simple cartoon animals of whatever animal the kids chose, so they could have some drawing inspiration. if your shirt is a light color you can pre-draw with a pencil and bleach pen over it. so fun! also... this was a pinterest idea. jaw-dropping news, i know. 

bleach pen shirts

time to read tuesday: animal books

the library had a few bajillion options in the animal department.

we're going out wednesday: woodland park zoo

i love the zoo, but sometimes i start to feel like... "oh are we big jerks (like humans in general) for caging these wild animals and forcing them to live in confinement for our amusment?" but then i just decided... whatever. they don't know any different. maybe they love it. probably not, but i still like going.  

that's delicious thursday: homemade animal crackers

so adorable. you just need some teeny tiny animal cookie cutters.

animal crackers

fun outside friday: farrel-mcwhirter farm park

it's like a free zoo with farm animals. fun. 

transportation week!

make something monday: polka dot transportation

i found the polka dot art idea on pinterest (you are shocked), but the blog is in spanish. it's okay though... the pictures are enough or you can have crazy google translate it for you. anyways, you just make a picture using ink pads and erasers on the end of pencils. i found silhouette photos online for the kids transportation choices (an airplane, rocket, and hot air balloon) and printed and cut them out. then we traced them onto card stock and polka dotted inside the tracing. it's pretty easy and cute.

polka dot art

time to read tuesday: transportation books

there are a lot of forms of transportation. a lot. think about it.

we're going out wednesday: the museum of flight

the museum of flight isn't exactly my cup of tea, but there are some pretty cool things there. you can take a tour of nixon and kennedy's (and some other presidents) air force one. and go inside a replica rocket ship. where astronauts sleep is terrifying by the way, as if that job isn't already the scariest. 

that's delicious thursday: sugar cookie trucks

the pinterest recipe below is a cookie dough recipe that doesn't spread or grow too much, so it is a goodie for making cookies in shapes. like trucks. 

perfect sugar cookies

fun outside friday: meridian playground

so, i originally planned on taking the kids to a park in bainbridge, so we could take a ferry there, but then that started to feel like a crazy excursion. so we went to a park in seattle... and we took a bridge there, so that's something. plus, we went shopping at u-village.