Fun Summer Ideas

I saw this on another blog I read and I read through all the posts because I wanted to gather up as many ideas as I could!

~Paint with pudding (on the table, paper or your BODY!)..or finger paint if you are feeling daring
~Put flour on the kitchen table and play cars in it. You can also add fun cups or whatever your heart desires
~Make playdoh. Play with said playdoh
~Cook
~Zoo
~Go to a local farm and ask (or call ahead) to look around
~Color
~Paint
~Have a picnic on the living room floor
~Build a fort
~Swimming
~Fill a container with dried beans and scoop them , sort them, drive cars through them, shovel them etc
~Have a letter of the week. Draw a picture pertaining to said letter, hide uppercase and lowercase of that specific letter around the house and find them, bake something with that letter
~Bake cookies and decorate w/ whatever holiday is coming up
~Sidewalk chalk
~Paint a wall indoors with chalkboard paint, instant rainy day chalk fun
~Popcorn balls..popcorn, 1 stick butter, 1 bag marshmallows. Pop popcorn, melt butter and marshmallows together, combine all ingredients, roll into balls and let cool.
~Fruit Loop Sort..click here for the printable and instructions
~Hike
~Marshghetti..Bag of marshmallows, box of spaghetti (regular not thin) and build something.
~Games..board games, card games, etc
~Twist pipe cleaners into glasses, animals or jewelry
~Water balloons
~Bubbles
~Paint the driveway or fence with water..use sponges or just spray
~Sprinklers
~Make popsicles..try layering with fruit, yogurt, juice
~Wash the car
~Have a dance party and play all kinds of music
~Play hide and seek
~Write or draw in shaving cream
~Work in the yard together..pulling weeds, planting flowers, planting/picking vegetables
~Make a pine cone bird feeder
~Learn to sort laundry
~Help clean the house..give them a damp cloth, swiffer, duster and have them go to town
~Dictate a letter to a friend or grandparent while mom writes and take a trip to the mailbox
~Make an obstacle course
~Go on a campout
~Hide easter eggs and have kids hunt for them
~Have a scavenger hunt..find a blue sock, a purple shirt, a pine cone etc.
~Play "I Spy"
~Go bird watching/listening. Can you find a cardinal or robin?
~Play tag
~Books on CD
~Mystery bag..place an object in a bag and let them feel it and guess what it is
~Build your own pizza
~Have a tea party
~Fill a tub with water and set it on a towel..go to town!
~Barnes and Nobles story time..every Tuesday morning..or check our your local library!
~Fun Crayons..break up your old crayons, put them in a silicone tray with fun shapes and bake them until they melt. Abut 7 minutes at 275. When they re-harden, the crayons make great funky colors
~Sidewalk paint..make with equal parts cornstarch and water..then add food coloring. Enjoy!!
~Homemade bubbles..1 C. water, 2T. light corn syrup, 4T. dish washing soap
~Make your own silly puddy..mix 4 parts Elmer's glue with 1 part Borax, add food coloring and store in a plastic baggy
~Make a collage with old magazines
~Fun snacks..cookie cutters and bread to make cinnamon toast

Fun ideas I picked up from many other blogs and wanted to have them all in one spot for later use :)

SURPRISE and random thoughts

For the few of you who guessed my surprise from my previous post (ahem-Kelly ;) ) I actually deleted what I had said and will re-enter it again tonight..just so I can remember what I had been feeling that day..

As for my surprise we are going to have a double blessing in December-we are pregnant with TWINS!!! It caught us incredibly by surprise since neither of us have twins, at all, on either side. The one and only thing I can think of is that I had only been done nursing Adelyn for a month before I got pregnant..and being pregnant for 9 months and nursing for 13 months equals 21 months of the female organs not knowing what to do. We have since got over the shock and the excitement is beginning to set in. I always tell Eric that the Big Man upstairs must think he's one funny individual because I was always one to proclaim loud and clear that I would NEVER have twins, I would never drive a mini-van (which is now our only (practical) option), I am terrified of stretch marks (and being pregnant with twins I am bound to get them), I am terrified of reaching whale like proportions, little babies scare me-little as in 4lbs..I can do 5lbs. 4, not so much...much less, I now have to deliver not one but TWO babies. The other things that terrify me is that Adelyn is going to get lost in the shuffle and I want to, but essentially have to, breastfeed. But He knows what He's doing and He must think I can do it :)
Oh and having a "plan" how many, what gender and how many years apart they are pretty much flew out the window too. I've heard from many people that having a "plan" is pretty much asking for something different. Ours was to have 2 kids close together, preferably girls, then wait until Adelyn started school to start trying for our 1 (in Eric's opinion) or 2 (in my opinion) more kids, boys. Pretty sure that isn't going to happen :)
The babies are both measuring exactly the same and they are fraternal..definitely a bonus, no twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome with fraternal twins!
We have many changes coming in the Fitzgerald family and we are excited for what comes our way!