Colin Starts the Road to Crawling

The other day my husband noticed Colin getting up on his hands and knees! Now he's doing it all the time. I can't believe he's big enough to start doing this! Check out this video:

Fun With Contact Paper

Today we made pictures with contact paper and jewels. I simply taped a piece of contact paper to the wall (sticky side forward) and gave them jewels to decorate with. The kids seemed to really enjoy this activity but didn't spend as much time at it as they did with the sensory bin. They have come back to it often throughout the day though.

My First Sensory Bin

I finally got around to making a sensory bin! Woo-Hoo! I have been meaning to do this for at least a few months but never had the time, money or a good idea. I finally decided to just throw some stuff I had on hand in there and pick up a few little things at the Dollar Tree to make it interesting. I made this with my 2 year old son in mind. But my older girls played with it for quite a while before he woke up from his nap. Some things I put in are: white pom-poms (snow balls), snowflake confetti, little plastic tools, scoops, tweezers, a small broom thing with a dustpan, felt robots, silicone cupcake wrappers, jewels, and some sticky styrofoamy stuff (like floam?). The girls made cupcakes, we had a treasure hunt to find the jewels, and in the end we broke out in a "snowball" fight. So over all I think my first sensory bin was a success!

Black Bean Burgers

One of my recent undertakings is trying to make vegetarian meals for dinner. This is new to me, and honestly it's scary sometimes. When I found a recipe for black bean burgers it looked pretty good. So I had to make them. Verdict...I LOVED them, Brian thought they were good, and the kids pretty much thought they were disgusting.

The Best Hairdo Ever

If we are "facebook friends" you may have heard about the ongoing battle i have with Olivia's hair. It is a force to be reckoned with and usually I lose the fight. Which means her hair often looks like she lives in the jungle.
One night we sent the kids to the bathroom to brush their teeth and after a minute or two we heard hysterical laughing. Around here laughter often means trouble so I went to see what was going on. This is the sight that greeted me.....


Her hair apparently has skills the world has not seen before. Of course Brian and I were laughing too.

Hot Springs!

We were invited to go to Riverdale Resort in Idaho with some friends. It is a place with a couple pools that are fed by a hot springs. Swimming at night in January was definitely an adventure, and fun. The water in the big pool was mostly warm but not as nice as the smaller pool. The kids had a blast! Sorry the pictures aren't great. My camera pretty much sucks.

Cooperation

My four year old has a very strong personality. So these two playing together usually consists of Olivia taking Jonah's toys and Jonah screaming and chasing her to get them back. So you can imagine my surprise when I found them playing nicely together with the same toy, without me setting it up. It was so cute I had to take a pic.

Cap'in America

Jonah finally got some masculine dress-ups for Christmas. This one is his favorite. Whenever he's wearing it, he just walks around telling everyone, "I Cap'in America!"