Kid Swap!

Back in the spring when we made the decision to not send Keira to preschool for her 3-year-old year, my friend, Mackenzie, asked if I'd be interested in doing a child care swap. Basically, each week we would take a turn hosting each other's child for one morning until after lunch 1x per week and the next week we would switch. It sounded like a great idea and so we planned to start this fall.  Now that we're more than half-way through September, we have had a few kid swaps and it has gone very well! The worst part is when the mom comes to pick up her child at the host's house because both girls are so sad that the fun is over and the friend has to go home.

This is at the first swap!

Keira LOVES playing dress up at Ella's house!

Just like at home, Keira is quite the helper with folding laundry!

Mackenzie is a Pinterest-loving, very crafty Momma at heart and the girls got to make these super fun art projects!

Creative use of toilet paper rolls!

For lunch, the girls got to pick their vegetables to put into the mac-n-cheese!

I don't think Keira has eaten so many vegetables in her life!

Footsie friends!

The next swap was at our house.

Ella came over bright and early because her Daddy dropped her off on his way to work.

The girls are still trying to wake up!

We had a little bit of a rough start...Keira had a hard time being flexible with our routine, like allowing Ella to ride in her blue car or help push her car on our walk with Jack (she is used to pushing it along without having to share!). So, there were a lot of tears as Keira adjusted to sharing and being flexible.

Once we got to the park, swinging helped lighten the mood and the girls had a great time giggling and squealing with glee!

Tetherball is fun with a friend!

Sharing the trike and helmet went really well!

So fun!

Time for a smoothie break and Cat-in-the-Hat!

Painting with brushes was out the window!

It's way more fun to get messy!

Play-doh was the epitome of fun!

Each girl had their own dough and tools and made lots of fun things! 

I think they played on their own for 30+ minutes (while I just watched from the sidelines).

Ella asked me to put her hair in a ponytail, which was very exciting for her mom!

Little sweetie

Silly Ella with her play-doh!

The girls were taking turns using the camera to take pictures of each other. When it was Ella's turn, Keira was upset about having to give up the camera, so she is pouting on the bed. When I showed her this picture that Ella took, she said, "Why am I laying on the bed?"  Good question!  Why are you?!

Keira took this picture, which is so sweet.

Here they are back at Ella's house!

Making collages with magazine pictures.

Keira loves to use scissors to cut!

Hard at work!

Snack time = veggies!

Look at Keira's face:

"Ummm, I'm not sure if I like this..."

"Ella, are you SURE you want to eat this?!"

"Okay, well, if you think it's good, then I do too!"

Yay for eating veggies at Ella's house!

When lunchtime rolled around, it was time to make pizza!

Very focused

Cheesssssssse!

Always gotta steal a bite!

Mmmmm! Delicious!

 The last time we had Ella over, I didn't take too many pictures.

The girls had so much fun playing at the park together (for at least an hour!) and they had lots of fun at the play-doh table again. Keira seemed to be much more relaxed and flexible this time and overall the day went really well!

YAY for Kid Swap days!!!!!!!!!!!!