St. Patty's Day

I had scheduled a playdate for St. Patrick's Day, but Charlotte got sick Wednesday evening, so we cancelled. :(

The craft:

The snack: The outfit:
The hair: :)

Valentine's Crafts

I finished a holiday craft BEFORE the holiday (and not the night before either. :)

I made this cute frame...(now to find a picture of my kidlets)

Supplies:

I forgot to take a picture before I started gluing...:)
Sorting the candies, and banishing the "reject" ones, lol. My helpers (they ate the "rejects"): At first, I was going to do one row of hearts...then I liked two rows... But I love the way 3 rows look:

This V-day picture was taken 2 yrs ago. :( My daughter was only 1 month old, Andrew was 2.25 yrs. :)

I got this idea from a Too Cute Tuesday post on Funky Polkadot Giraffe. When you click on the thumbnail it takes you to Simply Crafty. There's another version on a blog I already follow, Yesterday on Tuesday. Mine is a combo of the two.

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This is the base of my next Valentine's craft...but what to write on the side...my husband suggested Be Mine...I love it B. Mine :D.

NYE 2011

I went to a small gathering at Kayla's (my youngest sister) house last night. There were 7 adults and 4 kiddos (age 4 and under). Here are some pictures I snapped @ exactly midnight:

Kalvin (8 months)

Austin (21 months)

Charlotte (23 months)

Andrew (4 years)

I find it funny that the youngest is the most alert and happy (used to those late nights, I supppose) and it decreases as you go up in age. My sleepy lil boy crashed around...10:30 pm, I'd say. :) Charlotte crashed sometime after 1 am. I left at 2 am, and my sister was just then headed to bed with two still very awake boys. (Kalvin was dozing on and off all evening.)

My only resolution (which applies to MANY, MANY areas of my life) is to GET ORGANIZED. :)

Happy New Year 2011 everyone!

Andrew's 1st Day of Preschool!

So, today's post should be wordless...but I just CAN'T. I have to gush and brag about my baby boy!

Photographic evidence that even though my little boy started school today, he's still my baby! (Sleeping in my bed! You can see Charlotte's pillow in the top right, she ended up in our bed too!)

Today was the first day of preschool for Andrew. He started at a cooperative preschool here in Battle Ground.

"More pictures? Can't we go in yet???"

"(Charlotte) Look mom, there's all the other kids going in..."

Finally, getting his first peek into his new classroom...

His jacket and backpack on his hook. :) I forgot a picture of his cubby! :( I'll have to snap a picture on Monday. :D

One last glimpse of Andrew before we head home for a couple hours.

He doesn't even notice that we left. :(

She really missed Andrew. She followed me around like a duckling ALL morning.

Kiss, kiss, moo moo! (So sweet!)

Charlotte joins in on the fun.

"Where do you think you're going with MY car???"

Going home!

Andrew telling us all about his first day...including his snack of crackers and napkins. lol

We took Andrew (and Charlotte) out to lunch and to a movie to celebrate his first day of school...Charlotte got bored (I did too!) with Iron Man 2, so we waited in the lobby for the boys. We got 2 $0.25 bouncy balls, a $0.25 bracelet (blue on her R arm) and some photos done to pass the time. The trucks were dug out of my diaper bag. :)

Wordless Wednesday

Birthdays!

Sorry it's been one whole month since my last post. :) Nothing exciting is going on...

Did you know that there are more August birthdays than any other month? 9% of babies are born this month. In my family, we have only two (3 in Jan., 2 in Feb., 2 in Mar., 1 in April, 4 in May, 3 in June, 1 in July, 0 in Sept., 3 in Oct., 0 in November, and 3 in Dec.), but that's not the point. Anyway...my cousin Bobby turned 12 (!) on the 5th and my baby brother turned 21 on 8/9/10. :) Speaking of which, on the news there was a baby girl (Ella Rose) born on 8/9/10 @ 11:12 pm. The pointed out that her weight was 2 ounces higher than needed to be 6# 7 oz on 8/9/10 @ 11:12 pm. Way off track...

Okay, so August birth's = highest month, why? 9 months after winter. It's cold and people have nothing better to do. :D

We've been invited to a lot of birthday parties lately. We were just at one yesterday, it was at a cool pizza place in Beaverton. The little girl had a Barbie-themed party and was turning...6, I believe. :) My husband and I are firm believers that children (ours included) have too many toys, so we try to find alternative gifts. Usually we opt for books or clothes, but kids can even have too many clothes (never too many books). I stopped at Target on our way and got a Hello Kitty backpack, binder, folder, and notepad, as well as a pack of Crayola markers and colored pencils. I threw it all and some tissue paper into a reusable shopping bag (cheaper and more practical than a gift bag) and hoped she was in school or starting school this year. :)

I've already started thinking about Christmas gifts...I have 4 nephews and 1 niece, I would like to make their gifts, but what to make? My oldest nephew is going to be 9 soon, and the youngest is 4 months. I think I'll be making this (http://skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/hooded-towel-tutorial/) for the younger ones (my almost 5 year old niece and all the "babies").

Man this post is all over the place. Here are some pictures from yesterday.

Getting ready to go have some fun: :)

Cute little carousel that was free to ride as much as you wanted:

Mini Ferris Wheel set up in the corner (also free of charge):

Andrew is in this yellow one with three other little ones from the party:

Being made to finally exit, they'd been in there for a long time. Andrew would have stayed if there were not other children waiting for a ride.
Giant ball pit: (There were two hoops in here, but they were so high that even I had trouble making the shot, I don't know how they expected the children to do it...)

Finally going home...: