Feb – April 28th 2008
Sherwood Music Conservatory at Columbia College – musical petting zoo where they could try out the xylophone, trumpet, violin, flute, clarinet, watching a mini-concert of a piano, cello and drums
Adler Planetarium – models of solar system, 3-D movie Fly me to the moon, driving a remote Mars rover
Art – lots of painting, drawing with crayons in bathtub, painting with food colored shaving cream, drawing hundreds of drawings on the easel in the hallway, lots of play dough creations
Indoor Playground in LaGrange
Shedd Aquarium – highlight was the sharks in the Wild Reef exhibit
Music – Alexa loves, loves, loves playing CDs, tons of playing drums on pots to the sounds of
Oldies Music (some songs on CD are Johnny be Good, Blue Moon, Get a Job, Pretty Woman), playing guitar on their own and with Steve
Art Institute – looking at the Bill Peet illustrations exhibit, looking at some Impressionist
paintings, watching a short children’s concert
LaGrange Outdoor Park
Granddad’s birthday – building a Cootie bug, the exercise bike
Family Crown Play Lab at the Field Museum and Egypt exhibit – crawling through play logs, picking pretend corn, brushing off fossils, playing musical instruments found round the world, playing with Wedgits
Having flour fights
Running through mud puddles
DuPage Children’s Museum – Light pegs and using light to draw on walls, stringing beads, climbing in pretend castles, water and bubble table, above ground tunnel, shapes on dry erase board, Colorforms
Khol’s Children’s Museum – Play Domink’s store, water table, farm exhibit
Jack and Steve’s Birthday party
Reading: Highlight was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and lots of Bill Peet books
Dino exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo
Easter – egg hunt in Amys’ backyard, getting pretend cell phones
Jared using Steve’s tools to “fix” his bike
Climbing the tall bushes in the back yard
Reptile Fest – petting snakes, bearded dragons, iguanas, and a 15 foot alligator
Friday, June 5, 2009
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