Tuesday Treat Day!

I'm going to hopefully get in a new blogging groove with a new little series of weekly posts! Most weeks seem so mundane around here and a lot of times I don't feel like there's much to write about, but I've started something new with Ansley that I thought would be easy to blog about.  We are calling it Tuesday Treat Day and it's basically just that....Tuesdays we have started doing 1 really fun and different thing on Tuesday of every week.  It doesn't have to be anything extravagant or over the top, just something fun that I know Ansley will enjoy.  A treat for her.  So to start us off....we began this Tuesday at the Riverside Library in Jackson.  Our Parents as Teachers friend, Amanda gave us a schedule of fun events they put on as a way of reaching out to Jackson community of parents and children that are in the PAT program. I couldn't believe ALL the fun things they had for the kids to do!  There were stations set up all over the room and they started things by reading a story to the kids and building a snowman throughout the story.  Each kid got a glove, an eye, nose, or other part of the snowman.  It was so cute to see the kiddos bring their piece of the snowman puzzle as Amanda read the story!

So we started out at the food table (she's just like her momma, always goes for the food first!).  We put together a snowman with a powdered donut, chocolate chips, and a piece of candy corn.       

Ansley got a little excited about the donut part and enjoyed a bite of her treat before we had even started.  Oops. 

  

I could barely get a picture before she had devoured the whole thing!  Excuse the powered sugar teeth.

And lips.... 

Then it was time for sensory fun!  They had snow, sand, flour, sugar...all kinds of mediums for the kiddos to play in! Ansley's favorite was the snow, she probably spent 20 minutes burying animals in it (and she wouldn't let the little deer that she called "reindeer" out of her sight)! 

On to the glue-like substance where she made acorn and pine needle imprints.  She loved this too! 

The the pink squishy jello bags were fun too. 

Then it was time for a Valentine craft with paint and gluing.  She was most interested in painting her hands herself, which proved for an interesting situation with a 2 year old who thinks she needs no help with anything!  Let's just say she wanted to include her whole arm in the painting process and I had to get a little stern with her. :) She was definitely showing signs of a much needed nap, so after the craft we bolted for the door before Tuesday Treat Day was a disaster. Ha!   

We really had a great morning diving into lots of activities.  We will definitely be going back for more PAT events like these!