May review

Hi Mamas & Tots

This month featured a lovely spring theme about Growing, Gardens and the Great Outdoors. It reminded me that children are like precious flowers, each varied in their own special way, beautiful alone and glorious in a community of peers. So thank you Mamas and Tots for making us all better together!  We had a terrific month full of wonderful events/activities, here is a bit of a brief lowdown of the month

John Janzen Nature

This is a newly discovered gem for myself. Early in the month we explored the forest like indoor playground at John Janzen, my little one especially loved splashing in the stream! After we had a nice chit chat and the kids had time to explore, we took a break for snack time. Once the appetites had been sated we hit the trails in a pram procession. It was lovely to walk through the lush greenery, and easy to forget we were in the heart of the city. Upon our return to the centre, some mamas stuck around to enjoy a lunch and more play time. Miss Fin and I had a fabulous time with all of you mamas and tots! We plan to return on a rainy day soon.

Explore Art

I am getting excited just remembering how glorious this day was! It started off as kind of a blustry gray day to be hitting up Jackie Parker. We arrived to discover some fabulous mamas had secured the indoor pavilion. This was an art project to remember! We painted pancakes with fruit flavoured syrup, or at least some did; mine preferred to simply paint her tongue. By the time the art project/snacks were cleaned up, the clouds parted and the sun came out. The tots hit up the playground and the splash park in style! It was lovely to see the children sharing the toys that we rounded up out of diaper bags and cars. It is truly a special group of mamas to be so giving.

Beanstock Playdate

First of all a huge shout out to Kelly for hosting during inclement weather! For potluck snack time, everyone delighted us with their creativity and brought fairy tale themed snacks! We had Jack's three bean salad, Red Riding Hood's snack basket & muffin basket, Hansel & Gretel brought us their bread crumbs and cookies, The Three Bears oatmeal cookies, The Tortoise and the Hare rolo turtles....mmm so good, The Princess and the Pea salad (if you have not had the pleasure to try the pea salad or the rolo turtles you better hit up Chani and Kelly for the recipe!) Brenda lead us in a science project to grow plants starting with a bean. I can happily say that Finley's beans have started to sprout some roots.

Bookclub & Busybag Swap

Jackie Parker is such a great place to meet up with the littles.  We had a double header as the mamas got together for some fun busybag swaps and a book club for the little ones.  This months book was The Tale of Peter Rabbit - a much loved classic.  Thank you to Chani for leading circle time and sharing a book with us. Reading is a very important skill to have in your mama arsenal, but I will leave more of this subject for a later blog.  

Photos & Playtime  

The lovely Kaylin hosted this event in Millwoods Park, and regaled us with her amazing talents. She captured the essence of our little darlings and we had fun in the park while doing so. If you have not seen her  blog run don't walk and check it out - www.kbphotography.posterous.com  

Rhymes that Bind 

We headed off to rhymes that bind at the suggestion of a mama who has done this a few time, thank you Jennifer!  While I am certainly not a singer by nature, I enjoyed watching the littles dance around and enjoy themselves.  They even had a snack and water break (which was provided for us).  Chani hosted a potluck lunch afterwards (I could live for these potluck lunch days!).  Thank you to all the Mamas out there who are always inspiring me in the kitchen department!  

May was such a fabulous month for us, I really enjoyed the seasonally appropriate theme of growing and nature.  We are looking forward to June's theme of baby animals!  

Taking it one day, diaper and daisy at a time.