Wordless Wednesday - St. Patrick's Day 2008

Sunshine!!

OOhh the past few days have been amazing! The sun shining, the temperatures warming up in the afternoons! I love all of this being outside running around! The mornings are still chilly but that is all the more incentive to get things done around the house and get outside to enjoy the weather :-)

How has the weather been in your neck of the woods? Any signs of spring..? I hope this isn't a tease and we are actually going to just stay warm now!

On the sickness front we are feeling better.. just getting over the last bit of the cold, the coughing phase.

Tot School - K Week and St. Patrick's Day

Sammy is 34 months old.

We played with some snow playdough we made. I am going to add some green playdough this week :-)

We also busted out our memory game this week. We have used this in the past for matching. This week Sammy was actually able to play it as a memory game.

The letter we focused on this week was K. So we made a K with kites on it. Sammy liked helping to cut out the triangles for the tails of the kites.

We also made a big kite. We didn't have all of the materials to make a real kite or the wind to fly it.

So we hung it on the back door. Sammy wanted me to help him paint the big S on the kite. Sammy also picked the colors we painted with. I am pretty sure his favorite color is orange :-P

We did a few Saint Patrick's Day activities this week. Here is the sensory box I created for the next 2 week. In the box there is green rice, green pipe cleaner, 2 different dyed green noodles, green feather, green pom poms, "gold" pom poms, green and gold sequins, and a shamrock that I sewed out of felt for him.

Sammy thought it was really fun that the shamrock stuck to his shirt :-P


We painted some cardboard green. I then traced and cut out some shamrocks for another craft (below).
Next Sammy glued them to the yellow construction paper. I drew and cut out a pot. Sammy glued that on. I next applied glue to look circles and Sammy put gold glitter on the glue. We made two of these. Daddy is taking one to work for his office.

All of our finished projects for this week:

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Things I Never Thought I Would Say

The other day I blurted something off that I never thought I would say. Then it hit me that I have said several of them.

1. Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do. (in response to I don't want too).
2. What were you thinking? (like Sammy even understood this question) - this may have been when my sweet little 2 year old tried to flush a whale bath toy down the toilet. Where it is currently stuck waiting for Tim to take it off the floor and try and dislodge the whale. My advice to Tim, "Free Willy"! (I know lame joke but it totally cracked me up).
3. Just try a bite you might like it (which he did.. but I heard that a lot growing up)

So what momism have you said that you never thought you would?

A little piece of my childhood

So I thought it would be fun to share some stories about my childhood with all of my bloggy buddies. That and I'm home sick for the 3rd day in a row and have nothing new to share *wink*.

So this story is from when I was 10 years old. I made the all-star softball team after the regular season. We had a tournament with a bunch of other all-star teams. This was my first time playing more than one game a day and I was loving it. We had played a game and didn't play for a few more hours. My parents decided to take me to get some lunch before the next game. I can still remember what I ate that hot day! I had a grilled cheese sandwich and a big glass of chocolate milk.

Okay a little while later we were playing again in the heat. I was playing second base when my stomach started to hurt. We had two outs and I kept thinking I'm okay just one more out and I can run to the bathroom! We finally got the 3rd out. The closest bathroom was about 50 yards away. I took off running. I am running and thinking ohhh man I am barely going to be able to make it! When I ran into the bathroom there was only 1 stall and someone was using it.. then the panic set in!

I will save you from the details.. but I will say that I no longer like milk and that my nickname was stinky to a few girls for a few years. I totally lied to them and told them I threw up on myself.. in retrospect I'm not sure that was real believable!

The one good thing that came out of the most embarrassing moment (ever I think) was the confidence needed to try out for a travel softball team. I played travel softball for the next 9 years!

Okay.. so now spill the beans.. tell me something from your childhood!

Small Pleasures

My friend Terra wrote about her small pleasures yesterday and I wanted to do the same today :-)

-a new to me sewing machine! Thanks Mom! I can't wait to get started using it :-)
-Borrowing a Curious George movie from my sister
-melting snow
-dying rice for a sensory box for Sammy
-the month of March
-Sammy's ever expanding vocabulary
-the women's retreat I'm going to next month
-the book fair opening up at my house in a week!
-purging unneeded things
-new house cleaning plans that seem to be working
-spring break is next week for Tim
-bonus and raise on Friday (okay so this isn't a simple pleasure but still exciting)
-clean sheets
-my list of things I want to do
-planning my garden

What a Fun Night!!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting my sister for dinner. After some delicious Chipolte dinners and meeting our parents we were off to see Annie! This was my sister's favorite movie growing up. I think we watched it a couple billions of times :-P

The show was amazing! There is no photography allowed so I couldn't take any pictures :(. But take my word for it, the show was so good!! The girls in the orphanage were soo cute and really amazing performers!

It was a late night for me getting home after midnight but it was worth it! So much fun! I am sure I will be going to bed at 9 tonight :-P

We are all battling a little cold :( I hope its all short lived!