More fun for 100 days

We are really getting into the spirit of the 100th day of the year around here.  We're going to have a celebration tomorrow with Vanessa and the boys.  If I get my act together, there may even be pictures! (don't hold your breath!)  Today I wrote out "100" in marker on pieces of paper for the kids and they created the cutest sticker sheets.  Ford and Ruby just simply put stickers on the lines of the numbers.  We had so many stickers from Easter that Rachel was able to actually count out 100 stickers and put them on her paper.  She was a little upset that she finished making a really great 100 out of stickers but still had so many more to go.  Once she started getting silly, though, she had a blast.  She made faces with the stickers and put stickers on top of stickers to make them tall.  We must have had sticker time for a good 30-45 minutes!!  Then Rachel practiced reading some words with similar sounds like words ending in -at, -ag, and -an.  For handwriting I had her write some the words she learned to read yesterday.  Ford and I practiced his numbers together today for handwriting.  It started out as a day of Handwriting WITH tears, but once we got smaller paper and focused on one number at a time, he did a much better job.
We went to story time this morning and had a blast with Mr. Jason.  He sprinkled confetti on everyone after they planted pretend seeds and then they made their own flowers out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners.  Ruby and Ford took a great nap today and I even fell asleep for a little while...still catching up on spring break sleep!  Rachel and I practiced her violin together and read some more together while the younger two were still sleeping.  Then we played outside, went on a walk, grilled out for dinner and enjoyed the sunshine!

Also, worth nothing, we had an incredibly simple but delicious dinner tonight.  We grilled pork chops, steamed broccoli, and had cut up strawberries.  I realized as we were eating that our kids ate almost every single bite and our dinner cost less than $10 to make.  It was also extremely healthy and yummy.