Bowling!

Sully attended a bday party for his friend Jayden at the end of January and went bowling for the first time!

Christmas finally ...

And it's only already February. Go me!

We made a snowman ornament out of Sully's hand prints ... 

Decorated the house without one single fit...

Helped to string up all the lights ... 

Decorated our annual Christmas Hockey tree ... 

then watched Sully pose in a scarf he found while taking a knee... 

Each night unwrapped and read 24 days of Christmas & winter inspired books  ...

And came to mommy's office instead of school, (phew, off the hook!) ... 

Practiced some numbers to keep busy as the end of the day neared ... 

then had an allergic reaction (insert sarcastic YAY here) ... 

Read some more books once our eyes didn't look like we went 3 rounds in the ring ... 

Then had some friends over - an amigo, a goofball and a sultan king  (I made sure to protect the innocent and then gave Sully a hat so he wouldn't feel left out.This doesn't rhyme, but whatever)

The kiddos made homemade painted ornaments (okay the kids did one and the adults did like 

the remaining 4) ... 

And made "Reindeer Food" for everyone to take home and use Christmas Eve for Santa's helpers to leave outside their doors ... 

We went and picked out our tree with a whole lot of mud and luck ... 

And  then watched as Daddy wrestled it onto the truck ... 

Of course we made sure it was first "Sully approved" before purchase ... 

Then we decorated that bad boy & sang favorite carol verses ... 

We attended Sully's Winter play (he's in the moose antler hat)  ... 

Made treats for daddy's work & totally ate more than we bagged ... 

And of course also made some for the fat man in the red suit ... 

Who in turn, left us some pretty awesome Christmas morning  loot. 

Inexpensive home activity

During Target's Christmas clearance I stocked up on some super cheap buys that we could use at home for "schooling". I use that term extremely lose. Extremely. Anyways, I picked up these cute felt red, white and grey acorns that are normally $9.99 vase fillers for $.98. Score! I had no idea what I would use them for until a few days ago when I was looking for something else and came across some felt scraps. As luck would have it, I had the same color felt as the acorns, so we made some felt trees. I dumped the acorns in a bowl with a tong and we've been using them to sort, count, classify and make patterns out of. We've also been using them to practice addition and subtraction. Thank you Target!

Art by Sully

A few of my personal favorite zoo animals he's taken to drawing lately. The giraffes face cracks me up everytime.