Scrapbooking with Troy

Troy and I had some mother/son time on Thursday. He has been on winter break since the Thursday before Christmas, therefore I decided to take off of work to spend time with him. We had just the activity to do together, SCRAPBOOKING!

Troy received some legos for Christmas and he wanted to make a book of all of his creations. So, we decided to add pages to his scrapbook with them. We went to Archivers in the Mall Of America. You can buy and take some of your tools inside the store to create pages, etc. while you are there. Troy picked out some stickers and paper specific to Star Wars and Lego. We then went into the back room to plan our pages. Troy was a huge helper and really knew what he wanted to do. He did all of the cutting and the majority of the gluing. We left the store with the pages all ready. We just needed to print out our pictures at home.

We had so much fun with the project that he is talking about scrapbooking other toys as well.

How to Make a Gingerbread House

Matt and I volunteered at Troy's school for the holiday party. When we arrived, we found out the kids were going to make gingerbread houses. Troy's teacher, Mrs. Kunkel, had thought of everything. She had us lay out different candies (lollies) and marshmallows on the table, a tub of icing and graham crackers. She then showed the kids a variety of gingerbread house pictures as examples so they could see how to decorate the roof, the sides, and even the yard outside. You could tell their creative juices were flowing! 

Kids started by covering an old small milk carton with graham crackers using icing as glue! They then used their imagination and put m&ms, tootsie rolls, candy canes, life savers, etc. all over their houses. A few candies made their way into their mouths which was all apart of the fun. We had a great time with them.

EMMA - The Tap Dancer

Last week, Emma came out of her first tap class saying she had so much fun. Now in her second class, she is definitely listening more and trying to learn the routine. She came home singing some of the songs and wanted to put her tap shoes back on, so I take that as a good sign. Her recital is in May, so we have a lot of time to practice.  NOTE: I would recommend turning the background noise off.

The Star Wars Story - According to Troy

NOTE: Troy has been rather enamoured of Star Wars lately. He brought home a Star Wars book from his school library this week, so that may have sparked the following story.

Once there was a spaceship. The people were going to destroy Darth Vader at the station where the storm troopers were. Once they were ready to attack a storm trooper, a guy got out of the spaceship with his light saber. He started fighting the storm trooper and killed him, breaking him into pieces.

They flew back to a restaurant but bad people were there, so they went into the restaurant. The man went in. He "zirked" [according to Troy, this is the sound of a light saber] the storm trooper and he was dead. His friends came over and went in with him. They were seated and were ready to eat good. They ate and they ate, because fighting bad guys makes you hungry! They went back to the spaceship and got in. They drove back home to their planet but a storm trooper surprised them and took a light saber!

TO BE CONTINUED....