keeping 'em busy

i am trying to keep my girls busy so that they won't get bored over the summer. its a bit difficult because i have no helper right now and so i  do the cooking and other household chores aside from taking care of them.

i really want to keep them out of the tv and when the opportunity arises, i engage them into doing something whenever i can. one of the advantages of having no helper is that the kids are always with me and we do almost all things together even the chores.  its one way to teach responsibility. such as fixing the bed, putting their slippers/shoes in the shoe rack, dirty cups in the sink, hanging wet clothes, and water the plants. they also help with the grocery and in the laundry shopw whenever i go there.

start them early learning about business ;)

one activity that we love to do is to bake or make something such as pastillas, brownies, pizza and cookies.

when i am doing something that they can't help, i try not to turn on the tv. i let them browse through their things and let them do or play with whatever they choose. 

read books, learning to read





building bocks

drawing on paper

drawing on the laptop

since raya is still high on her performance during her moving up day we sing and dance to the songs "we're all in this together" (from the movie high school musical), "da coconut nut" (by smokey mountain, and "yesterday's dream". its fun. she's actually the one "teaching" us since she claims she is the only one among the family who "knows" the steps =) we also play pretend of teacher and student wherein i am the teacher and she and rob are the students. i teach syllables to raya and shapes to rob ;) and when the opportunity calls it, we go out and play ball or go to the park.

or rob walks the nighbor's dogs ;)

and this is just on weekdays. its a whole lot more (and fun) when daddy is around on weekends!