Archives for May 2008

After nap time I decided to be brave and let them paint rocks. I wasn't worried about Lorelei, just Allan, but all went well. We only had a brief moment of finger licking the paint… It's hard to control your impulses at 20 months 🙂 We all went outside to pick out rocks from the […]

Story time at the library has gone on hiatus until mid-June, so I am left to my own devices. I decided to get out Lorelei's favorite book, (I am not sure Allan has ever looked at it) which is a Winnie-the-Pooh pop-up book. It is extremely cool (thanks Colleen!) and we try and reserve it […]

 Do you ever have those weeks where everything seems out of control? I am having one of those weeks. Steve was gone over the weekend and it feels as if it has been me and the kids for a month. I know I just had a vacation by myself, but it seems like months ago. […]

Today didn’t start out well. Allan was up every 1-2 hours during the night. I just knew it had to be an ear infection and if it wasn’t, then I would really wonder if there wasn’t something super serious wrong. So I called and made the earliest appt. I could get at Pediatrician’s office. They […]

Lorelei kept asking, "Mom can we play air-o ball?" I found the perfect ball for this game. Where did I find this perfect ball you might ask, why the Target $1 bins of course. I wanted to try and throw the ball around through the air, but I found that both kids were a little […]

In the afternoon after nap time we made our fingerprint critter pictures. I was excited because the ink pads we used were from the Target $1 bins. (Gotta love the $1 bins, I spend a lot because of those bins!) Lorelei and I started off making ladybugs with the red ink. She did a beautiful […]

During story time at the library we read lots of books about boats. The craft was to make a boat and then you could draw a picture of a boat too. During the making of the boat we used clay to hold up the straw mast. Lorelei was having fun using lots of clay. So […]

Sooo…  you may not know this about me, but sometimes I don’t get everything on the list accomplished. Now I know some of you may be in shock at this moment, but it does happen. The whole airport delay in Tampa and not arriving home until 1 in the morning sort of wrecked my Monday […]

Last week on days 9 and 10 I was gone on a little vacation to Tampa for my cousins wedding. Steve stayed home with the kids. He took them to Holland for the Tulip festival, where his family was working in their concession wagons. Instead of baking cookies, they tried a new food – corndogs. […]

On Day 8 we made necklaces using string, noodles and Cheerios. Allan pretty much just ate the Cheerios, although I did work with him to get one necklace made that he could wear. He wasn’t very interested in it and was having more fun dumping the noodles and cheerios out of the bowl and putting […]