Domi Stays Home, Royal Icing and Rocket Art

The kids had an unusual treat yesterday. Sophia's big brother got to stay home from school since he traveled back from his band state competition and came home at 2:00 a.m., (so mom said, no school for him!) After he slept in, he joined us downstairs and helped make the Royal Icing, which is a cement-type glue for the sugar skulls. The girls ended up hanging with Domi in the kitchen while Corbin and Damon played on the patio. We also enjoyed listening to Domi fill the house with music from his piano. We also made pan de muertos, but I realized I forgot to take a picture before it was all eaten and distributed.



Assembling the Calaveras (Sugar Skulls). The children enjoyed spreading the glue on the back of the skulls and got some good fine motor practice in. Domi helped join both sides together.











Community Gathering
After our Hello Song, we read the book of the week, From Head to Toe. Gave Domi the camera so he could snap some shots of the story unfolding in action.







Corbin and Mia also opted for reading time on their own.





Spanish
We've also been focusing on our colors and numbers 1-10.

And how cool is this!! Opened Damon's lunchbox and he found this.



So, who's the artist? Mom? Dad?
=)

Phrase of the day:

We were outside looking for the toy school bus, Mia found it, and Damon exclaimed, "GOOD JOB!"