Cutting

This is what my kitchen table looks like every Wednesday afternoon. Junk mail COVERS the table. Kids sit around the table reading and looking at pictures, drawing on, and cutting junk mail. Lots of interesting talk goes on at this Wednesday afternoon table.

And other interesting things happen too, like the hand switch. Notice above Lyssy is cutting with her right hand.
And now she is cutting with her left hand. She cuts perfectly fine with either hand, but she writes best with her left hand. Funny thing is that I write with my left hand and cut with my right.

FUN times!

Light Box Tracing

One of the many AWESOME birthday gifts Lyssy received this year was this Fashion Designer.

It came with this GREAT light box! Only problem is that the people transparencies that it came with are alittle hard for Lyssy to make just yet. Luckly, mommy was VERY inspired by this AWESOME light box (I think I've been unconsciously wanting one of these because I can't get over how great it is). I got some transparency paper and started making things for her to trace.

This is GREAT for beginning writing practice!

I made a few things that she is ALWAYS asking me to draw for her, along with her first and last name, the alphabet letters, and some numbers.

Oh and don't worry, Lyssy loves the light box just as much as I do!!

I have a 4 year old!

Prissy Lyssy had her 4th Birthday yesterday! I am so very very blessed to have 2 beautiful, happy, and healthy children! Lyssy is a light in our world, she is full of laughter and sunshine! She is crafty and full of spunk! She is prissy, yet can keep up with her big brother. She is shy at first and then will talk your ear off. I love her so!

Valentines Decor

Yesterday we set up our February calendar and talked all about the month and the holidays in it. Aidman noticed that we had not decorated yet for Valentines Day and decided that we needed to make wreaths (they LOVE making wreaths for their bedroom doors), so we got to work and making our home look lovely!

Last year after Valentines Day I bought a bunch of heart foamies on clearance and they came in very handy!

I made this wreath, which I happen to like the least of them all. I should have just had the kids made it for me.

AB was very proud of her work!

I love how Aidman always wants to get close to his art when I take a picture.

Here is Lyssy's on her door, how pretty!

Then we decided to make a banner. I put a bunch of foam hearts on the craft table for them to color with markers. I figured it would take a couple days for them to do all 18 hearts. Boy, was I wrong! Come to find out, coloring on foam is SUPER FUN! They all sat there and colored all 18 hearts in one sitting!

I then wrote the letters on, hole punched, and tied them together.

Anyone coming to our house knows that kiddos live here!

We are still planning on making pretty suncatchers for our kitchen windows, but that will be another day.

Art

This is why I keep paper and writing materials available to my kiddos at ALL times! All of this art work was done last week, and there was no help from grown ups at all (most of the time the grown ups weren't even in the same room or were but were otherwise occupied).


Aidman drew a picture of Mommy and a sunflower (this was my Birthday card).

Here is another picture of me that Aidman drew.

Lyssy made this colorful picture. She didn't tell me what it was and I didn't ask (she would have if it were important).

Aidman drew a tent, a campfire, and Daddy.

Aidman drew this spaceship. See the flag? I did make the yellow dots for the stars and told him how to draw them, because he REALLY wanted stars.

This is a house and person that Aidman drew.

Lyssy made several suns and dots here.

Aidman made this Batman for Daddy.

I encourage you, if you don't have art materials at a hands reach for your children then get them out and set up an art area! You will be BLOWN away by their creativity and ability!

Super Quick Puppet Stage

When I woke up yesterday, Aidman was standing next to me. The first words out of his mouth were "Can we make a puppet show Mom?", as a non-morning person I rubbed my eyes while agreeing that yes we could make a puppet show. Then he said "we need a big box, do we have one?" and I answered that no we did not. "Well, how can we make a puppet show then? We really need one" he said. That's when Mommy Genius came upon my sleepy body "we can use a sheet and tie it to two chairs", I said. That set Aidman in motion to get everything he needed.

I ate breakfast while watching an awesome puppet show! I am one lucky mama!!


Once the puppet show was over the puppet show quickly became a tent. The kiddos all had a fun morning playing together.

MTM with our cousin!

On Monday my sister Sherryberry and my niece Laneybug came over to help me make more aprons. Good thing too because I have been fighting with my sewing machine and needed some help, as it turned out, I fought with her sewing machine too. So, I'm starting to wonder if it's just me... hmmm, no it's gotta be the machines! hahaha.

Anyway, Laneybug kept my kiddos GREAT company while the grown ups were busy. They even got to have a yummy Muffin Tin Monday floor picnic together while watching a movie.

They ate ham, cheese, roll, pears, coleslaw, and airheads that Laneybug bought with her own money to share with her cousins. Isn't she sweet?

Thank GOODNESS, we got ALL 20 aprons completed! Lyssy is wearing her very special Birthday Girl apron, it is the only one that got pockets and is glittery!

Each of the other aprons have doubles or triples that look like them. Laneybug decided that she wanted this one with hearts all over it.

I think AB has a BEAUTIFUL smile!

This is one of my favorite fabrics! I think I just love the brightness of it because we bought the same design in blue and pink and I didn't like it at all.

Laneybug has to pose for EVERY single picture! I think this fabric is super cute on, but it feels super thin.

Of course, we will have a few boys in attendance so we had to make a few boy aprons. Aidman insisted that I make a Yankees apron for him, he is OBSESSED!

This fabric would make a cute shirt!

Such a handsome guy!

Sewing Aprons

This week my sister SherryBerry came over and helped me to start making aprons for Lyssy's upcoming Birthday Party (it's an In The Kitchen/Cooking theme at my work). We have to make 20 aprons!! On this day we figured out a pattern, cut all 20 aprons, and sewed 8 of them, NOT too shabby!

Of course the kiddos had to see what was going on! Plus they love spending time with Aunt SherryBerry, who we don't get to see as often as we'd like since she lives an hour and a half away.

It was a fun morning together and we made some stinkin cute aprons!

I have a sewing machine, but am not great at it, I can manage a pretty straight line though. SherryBerry just got her sewing machine this Christmas and has been having a GREAT time learing how to use it, so she was pretty excited to help me with this project!