A couple neat books

Today we had small group for church.  It went very well and Olivia played well with the other kids.  Then we had to run a couple errands.  We didn't get home until about 3:30.  Olivia wanted to go outside and play baseball, so we did.  While we were playing a neighbor of ours came out (she is 4) and wanted to play baseball too.  Olivia and her played a little bit, but it ended when the other girl threw the ball and hit Olivia in the face...Then our other neighbors came out.  They were trying to go to the park (an elementary school across the street) but there was apparently a science fair going on there so it was busy.  She has 2 kids.  One just turned 3 and the other is 4 months.  We just met them 2 days ago.  Our neighbor told us about this park within walking distance but a little further away.  We decided to walk to it together since she is new and Olivia and Alex love playing together.  The whole way it was threatening to rain outside.  When we finally got there the kids played for about 10 minutes then it started sprinkling. We packed up to go home.  Apparently though we weren't paying attention on our way there because we missed the street we were supposed to turn down and took a LONG way home.  We probably waked 4 miles (there and back..one mile there 3 back). I got some good springtime pictures on the way back though.
When we got home I read Olivia a couple of her "Math" books and we read "The frog with a really big mouth" and another rainforest book.  We are working on learning rainforest animals.  And what a rainforest is.

We also read "10 red apples" which is a pretty fun counting book.  Olivia wants to read it again and again.  I like reading it because it is fun.

We read Math Fables (yesterday I shared math fables too) this is a good "math" book with fun little stories

And one of our fiction rainforest books, this is one of Olivia's favorites that we got at the library.  This frog eats the "biggest fly in the whole world" so he goes to different animals (animals of the rainforest) and brags about his ability to them.  He asks them what they are and what do they eat?  Olivia wants to read this one all the time.  She used to call Jaguar's "tigers" but now she gets the difference after we started our rainforest study. 

We have another rainforest book we read..I think it is just called "rainforest" but I really don't feel like going downstairs to find it (its 1:09am and I'm about to go to bed).  It talks about the rainforest and shows pictures of lots of animals and insects from each of the floors of the rainforest.  It gives names as well so Olivia and I can learn the names of the animals and insects.

Olivia also watched signing time twice.  Its a new one we got from the library.  The sports one so she is learning the signs to all the sports.  I was making dinner when she was watching it and she came in after every sign to show me what she was learning.  :)

Also we worked on the rubiks cube.  Olivia can now solve it if you mix it up a little from turning in both directions.  (not mixed up all the way)

Pics from our walk from the park