Fancy Nancy Tea Party

This afternoon the library on the west side of town hosted a Fancy Nancy tea party for the preschool crowd. If you don't know Fancy Nancy she is the star of a series of children's books. She is all girl, love glamour, Paris, French words, and all big 'fancy' words. I love the books because they appeal to Rebecca's girly side and teach excellent vocabulary. Anyway, about thirty little girls, dressed to the nines, were at the library. They had a story, made fancy eye masks for sleeping in, played accesories realy race, decorated cookies, and drank pink lemonade. It was really, really well done and adorable! I can't wait to go again next year!

                                            Simple, but cute decorations.

                                            Don't know what were doing, but I'm happy!

                                    Her sleeping mask

                                              The dudes hung out by the window.

                                              I loved that they had placecards!

                                              Yeah, he's going to hate me for this one!

                                             Very into her project, I think she had a cup of icing on that cookie!

Vacation Bible School

Its been a busy June, but I think our summer is about to come to a screeching halt. The heat is suffocating and that means its time to hang out in the basement. We may even go ahead and start our kindergarten plans with Rebecca. The beginning of this month Rebecca, Levi and I all helped out with Vacation Bible School at church. Rebecca was one of my students, of course, and Levi was class mascot. One afternoon our little 'cubby' even fell asleep in our bear cave. The children loved having stories in the bear cave, armed with flshlights. Here are some pictures of the way our church decorated for Sonrise National Park. We have some really talented people at church who put in hours, and hours, and hours of hard work. It was an amazing week and we had roughly 120 children each day. 38 of those 120 were our 5 and under crowd and they were so cute and so much fun!

                                My 'Story Bear Cave' room...complete with a fishing stream and woods.

Somedays I'd have a group of little ones heading out the door while another group was crawling into the cave nad settling in for our lesson.

Our preschool director made this awesome 'cave' our of black plastic sheeting and we even had white Christmas lights in the top to look like stars.

A close up or our river....I thought the sparkling blue fabric was a cool way to make water.

Our snack table.

In the church foyer.

Also in the church foyer.

                                                   Don't wake baby bear!

                                           Inside the Beaver Craft Lodge

                                             Our Creative Beavers

                                               Another classroom was devoted to creative play!

                                     More from the creative play room.

  Another great snack station.

                                 Waterfall for the 'True Nature' reality show.

                                     The stage and set of "True Nature".

Tie-Dye Summer Party

This afternoon we had several of Rebecca's little friends and my 'mom friends' over for a little tie-dye fun! The kids all made unique shirts, munched fruit, sipped tang and I think had a great time. I know Rebecca and I loved the project and the company!