How To Beat The Heat Indoors

It's Georgia in July and this heat is killin me y'all.

I hope you all laughed at that, I never EVER say y'all. It feels funny coming out of my mouth but I had to give it a try, ha! 

On to business. Today I had all 3 littles home since MD's daddy has been bringing her little brother to preschool early in the mornings and he was up late last night. He was just too wore out this morning and his meltdowns were just far too strong to get him out the door. 

In order to keep the peace when we're all home we have to stay busy! So that is just what we did; we finished up our breakfast, brushed our teeth and got dressed then headed to our kitchen table/art studio to paint a few masterpieces. 

I love to keep kid craft supplies in our home as it's something nearly every child loves and the cutting, folding, glueing and more are all great tools to focus on MD's little brother sensory issues and to improve his fine motor skills. 

Simple painting, painting with shaving cream, painting inside gallon sized ziplock baggies(NO MESS!) there are so many ways to entertain the kids when we are stuck indoors. Sometimes we forget to keep it simple and let them enjoy the little things like painting their palms and turning handprints into jellyfish or butterflies! What crafts do your littles enjoy most? 

I hope you all are enjoying the last stretch of summer. Our house only has 2 weeks until back to school!! 

Much Love

XOXO

Street Smart, Sesame Street Smart!

Recently I've heard a lot in regards to children learning as much from episodes of Sesame Street as

they would attending a preschool program. I have to believe this to an extent but still believe a preschool program is beneficial. It has been especially helpful with my son and his ongoing SPD issues. Obviously I don't believe those behind the study are hoping to replace preschool programs with the television program but more so point out not all tv time is terrible.

Anyways, Back to our post....


WE WENT TO SESAME STREET LIVE! Thanks to the give away of tickets we hosted we were able to attend the show for free with our friend Amanda (check out her blog, Somewhere Over The Camo) and her little peanut and it was adorable. 

The characters, the set, all of it was just too cute! I was so excited...oh, the kids were, too! ;) This
show was about Grover's friend traveling from another country and how we should celebrate differences in cultures/people. What a great message, fun songs and awesome show. My littles loved dancing around and clapping to the music. I highly recommend attending a Sesame Street Live show if you get the chance! 

We weren't able to stay for most of the show as we had an emergency come up but the kids certainly enjoyed what we were there for.

QUICK SIDENOTE: I do wish I would have seen more seats filled at the show. It is amazing how frequently we say there is nothing to do with the kids or as a family and then we don't take advantage of all the things we are lucky to have in our area. We have to remember if we don't use it we lose it. I would hate for us to not get the opportunity to do things like this someday because of all the empty seats.