Best Friends Foreeeever!!

Check out my little one and her BFF! These were taken in the church nursery - sharing breakfast and chatting on the couch. I love that she has a little girlfriend that's close to her age. How fun and so sweet!

Discovery Bottles

On Sunday mornings, I'm typically in our church nursery with kids age 0-4. I come up with various activities for the kids to do to keep them busy. I saw this link (Discovery Bottles) on making discovery bottles, and it's been something I'd been wanting to do with my own kids for quite awhile and finally decided to just do it! You can see my little one with her bottle below. (We didn't get pictures of the kids actually making the bottles, unfortunately, but can you imagine 8 kids with lots of glitter, beads, etc?!)

AND, you - yes, YOU - should join my blog on google friend connect...look to your right! :)

A Big Boy and Banana Bread

Yesterday, my big boy and I made two loaves of banana bread! Yum! One was made with regular flour and one was made with whole wheat flour. I ran out of the white (and usually just use the whole wheat when making honey wheat bread), but decided to try it, and I actually liked it even better! H is becoming so independent and LOVES to help cook!

Talking about being a big boy...today, he finally got a hair cut! It's shorter than I had originally wanted but the stinker wouldn't stop moving around! He loves it. Tonight, he didn't want to lay down on his pillow because he didn't want to mess his hair up! Haha! AND you know your son is getting big when you start calling PRESCHOOLS. Yes, he is getting SO big!

Shamrock Handprints

This is a picture of my one year old's shamrock. She did great, didn't she?! Your little ones handprints (with fingers pointing towards the middle) pushed down four times on the paper form the four leaf clover. It's kind of hard to tell because her little hands liked grabbing all that extra paint off the plate, but it's close enough for us. Tip: Make sure you have wipes ready to wipe off your little ones' hands right away! 

Now, go get your paint on before St. Patty's Day!

Here are my adorable kids at the Snake Saturday Parade:

Shamrock Hair Clip

St. Patrick's Day is coming up, and I was inspired from a picture I found on Pinterest (see here) to create a felt shamrock bow for Reese! The original was super cute and looked so simple so...since my husband works at Hobby Lobby and gets a discount, I called and asked him to bring home some green felt - only 50 cents plus his discount!

So...I freehanded some little hearts on the light green felt and some bigger hearts on the dark green felt. I also drew a circle to hot glue everything onto so that it would stay together. Then, I cut everything out! (I have a lot of felt left for another project! Yeah! Then, I hot glued everything together (points of the hearts touching in the middle) including a button in the middle and glued that onto a clip. I am SO not crafty, but was super happy with how it turned out...

So...what do you think??

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!!

We've been celebrating Seuss' birthday for awhile! Here are a few of our festivities:

All week long, we've been reading LOTS of Dr. Seuss books! We've also watched, "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss" and a Dr. Seuss cartoon series on Netflicks...Hudson LOVED them both!

We went to a Dr. Seuss birthday party with our friends, the Summits, at the mall! There were different crafty/ coloring activities, and we got to meet the Cat and the Hat!

We saw CYT's production of Seussical Jr. with GaGa, Papa, Nana, Kat and some friends! Hudson's cousin, Anna, was in the musical but the picture of them didn't really come out. 

I made these "green eggs" out of white chocolate and green M&M's. So easy - just melt some white chocolate and use a spoon to pour a little on a baking mat or wax paper (so they can come off easily), and then, drop a green M&M into the chocolate. They took awhile to harden so I ended up letting them sit out all night to make sure they were nice and firm. We ate them during intermission of Seussical Jr!

And of course, we started Seuss' actual birthday by listening to Green Eggs and Ham (and other Seuss stories) on CD and eating yummy scrambled green eggs and diced ham! Hudson thought that was SO fun! He even said, "But I don't like green eggs and ham!" when I served them to him. Silly boy...he ate them and loved them!

He also made a Cat in the Hat hat picture of himself and is going to a Dr. Seuss Celebration at the library this evening with Nana, Kat and Reese. Dino O'Dell will be performing! He's going to love that! We're also making Cat in the Hat parfaits! Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! I hope you enjoy celebrating today, too! How are YOU celebrating?