Block Puzzles

I got this idea from Pinterest...block puzzles. Best part, I had everything I needed. I printed a few images out and mod podged them onto wooden alphabet blocks-I used 9. Here are the pictures, it took me an hour and a half and the glue dries really quickly so the kids were busy with them a few minutes after being done.

Can you guess what games/shows we watch? I might do more, we'll see. For now Lauren is content with three more puzzles, she loves puzzles!

Did you know...

that Feb.15th is Buzz Lightyear's birthday? I actually made it up, it was raining that day and we decided to throw a birthday party to lighten things up a bit. First was making cookies, that's all I had on hand, peanut butter cookies, yummy. Then we had a little shoe box and filled it with toys that Lauren picked out for Buzz, how about that-toys for a toy.  Then we lit a candle and sang to him. It was fun, Lauren asked a couple days later if tomorrow was Buzz's birthday, so cute. Here's a picture.

Happy Valentine's Day

Todd made a video for me for Valentines Day, it was really neat and I'm glad he made me a video instead of signing a card. It's on youtube, here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPVrpIrYPQ&feature=plcp&context=C34fd00bUDOEgsToPDskKX3nxzwyuTBIG2sC8w7Oaz

Enjoy!

San Dimas Canyon Park

The kids love this park, it has way more than a regular park does...it has a little zoo! Owls, snakes, turtles, and deer etc. They also love the playground, here is Lauren being a big girl and running around all by herself.

Fun times

Mess free finger painting...was a hit!

don't mind the dirty diapers outside, oh well.

My Garden

When we first moved into our apartment I was excited for some dirt, we had a balcony patio in our one bedroom our first year of marriage. I had planted cucumber, squash, tomatoes, and pumpkins (rookie mistake, they took over the entire patio!) Last year I just never went out to the patio, ever, both kids were too little to play out there especially when the weeds took over everything. This year is different, I have plans and by golly I'm gonna do it, because both kids are driving me crazy in the house and they love being outside. Once I clean out everything and put in the mulch and flowers, then they can run and go crazy! I want to get a sprinkler for them to run through and a water/craft table for them to play with messy things outside. Here are the before pictures.

Valentines

I finished decorating my mantle for this month, I'm trying to mix it up this year instead of just Halloween and Christmas.

The banner says "Je t'aime" it's french for "I love you". I figured we needed to represent our romantic French lineage.( I'm not french I just inherited the last name but the other three people in the house are).

In the land of IKEA

I wanted to take the kids somewhere they haven't been before (well Lauren has been there before but I'm pretty sure she has no memory of it). A place where mom would like to go and be stimulated as well, light bulb moment happened one weekday morning last week and I thought "IKEA". So off we went and we went straight to the kids section. After looking around at toys we found the bedroom sets. They had four different bedrooms set up and I had two favorites, no three...whatever. Lauren was exploring all the bedrooms and pretending the beds were her own, so cute. Every time I leave I want to go back the next day because I feel like I didn't see everything. Here's a pic of them in the last bedroom, there was a little kitchen set up in it and Lauren played chef very well, I was surprised, my lessons in the kitchen so far have rubbed off on her already, so proud.

Baby Wipes

I've been doing home made baby wipes for over two months now. I've learned that Bounty towels are way better than the Viva ones, just FYI. Here is how I do them:

Cut a roll in half with a non-serrated knife (feel the burn, you'll work up a sweat, just a warning) Then in a container with a lid (I found mine at the 99 cent store) that will hold half of the roll fill with 2 cups of water, then add 1 T of baby oil, then 1 T of baby wash. With the cut side facing down, put the roll in the container of water. Then close it and flip it, letting the towels soak up the solution.

After the towels have soaked up the solution then you remove the lid and take out the cardboard center and voila the end of the roll will pop out of the middle.

 Remember, use Bounty. In these pictures I used Viva first and they don't have the "select a size" rolls so the wipes ended up being LONG. Buy Bounty select a size towels and you will love these wipes. Also I noticed that when my kids have a diaper rash, they don't cry when I wipe them with the homemade wipes, at all, not kidding. So big plus there on the no crying and screaming thing.