Advent

Here are a few of the advent activities we have done

 

Xmas bath in our tub - kids love taking a bath in here - green on one side and red on the other!

 

Bird feeders



Weekend Happenings

Friday was a home day - didn't do much during the day but that night we went to the Rec center to build gingerbread houses!

 

 

Saturday I drove to MD for the Annual Ornament Exchange! Super fun as always!!

 

 

Then on Sunday I drove home..... what a nightmare!

 

This sign below says Delaware State Line 31 miles - 95 mins

It actually took me 105 minutes to go 31 miles

 

 

This was Monday morning - after it sleeted all night - messy messy messy!!

 



Advent Day 4

 

I found these ice cream cone ornaments online and thought they would be fun to do!

 

Sam: Mommy I want to do mine like this

Me: Well then its not an ice cream cone

Sam: Mommy I have better ideas than you

Me: lol

Sam: I can do it however I want

Me: fine

 

Hannah got mad when I tried to help her with the glitter

 

The outcome

 

and yes my kitchen now has glitter everywhere!!



Advent Day 3

Ring! Ring! What's that I hear?  Bells?

Nope! Its rocks! Today we are going to Ringing Rock State Park!

 

 

Don't forget your hammer!

 

It was a beautiful day! Sunny and close to 50!

 

Next time I wont bring Hannah - she wasn't able to climb very well

so I had to carry her

 

Ringing Rocks Park is a 128 acre park nestled in the woods in Upper Black Eddy. Located within the park is a field of boulders, about 7-8 acres in size, that have an unusual property. When the rocks are struck with a hammer or another rock, they sound as if they are metal and hollow and ring with a sound similar to a metal pipe being struck. The park also has Bucks County's largest waterfall.

 

Besides the strange ringing properties of the stones, there are other mysteries surrounding this park. One odd thing about the park is that most boulder fields are the result of an avalanche from a mountainside collapsing. This boulder field, however, is towards the top of the hill, not the bottom. That means it didn't result from a rock slide. There is also no evidence to suggest that these were dropped here by a glacier as glaciers were not thought to have come this far south. How did this boulder field get to be like this?

 

The boulders are made of a substance called diabase which is basically volcanic basalt. This is one of the largest diabase boulder fields in the Eastern United States. The boulders have a high content of iron and aluminum and were thought to have broken apart during the Pleistocene Epoch probably about 12,000 years ago. The boulders were created through many years of freeze-thaw cycles that broke up the diabase into individual pieces, a process known as "frost wedging". The rocks may then have accumulated in this one area as the water saturated soil provided lubrication for the stones to "creep" downhill to their present location, a process known as "solifluction". This could have happened during the prior ice ages when overlying moist soil literally slid over the frozen permafrost below, carrying the boulders with it.



Random

Sam Sandwich

 

 Hannah is so great at cutting!

 

 Hannah playing with my old Strawberry Shortcake dolls

 

Cheese!

Advent Day 2

Day 2 was our 1st "home" day - Monday!

 

We wrote letters to Santa

 



 

We also made French fries (in the oven)  Sam loved them!

 

And we spent some time outside!

 

 

Christmas Advent Activities

 

Since my hours got cut at work the kids are home PT now - I knew I would go crazy just sitting at home so I thought it was the perfect chance to do an advent activity each day!  When working FT this wouldn't be possible so I am trying to make the most of it!

 

Day 1 is making paper snowflakes.

 

 

Here is our advent - I used matchboxes and filled each one with an activity.

 

 

Sam: Mommy, don't tell me what they say - I want to be surprised! I like surprises!