A little creativity

I saw this on pintrest and thought it was a neat idea.  (if you don't know what pintrest is, besides being addictive, it is like an online bulletin board to keep track of all those fun things you find online but don't want to bookmark).  I have found other ideas, but I thought the butterfly footprints would be an easy thing to do.

I painted the kiddos feet right after lunch.  Oh my you should have heard the giggles!  I learned that Andrew's toes are very ticklish and Kathryn has pretty high arches.

I had these frames for something I was going to do in K's room, but then we found princesses wall decals.  I had bought the frames as a 4-pack on sale at Michael's (just for you Sarah).

The other two pics are cut out of two crayon drawings by the kids.  Kinda makes a little art gallery.  So that was our craft for this afternoon!

Today's lunch

is brought to you by the shape "round".   And it wasn't even planned.  It just happened.       

An unplanned wonderful morning

Eric called this morning and said he left his computer at home and asked us to bring it to him.  I got the kids ready and off we went.

I decided since we would be out, I'd take the kids to the playhouse, but halfway there Kathryn said she wanted to go to the playground.  I remembered there was one not too far from where I was headed anyway and it would be closer to other errands I wanted to do.

This one has a small kid area that has the squishy ground.  It took Andrew a while to get used to it, but he eventually found the slides.  Oooh and it has better potties.

We then headed to Sam's for a few things and pizza for lunch.  The threes of us ate for $5.36.  Not bad.

I love when little older women tell me I have the cutest kids.  The lady today could have had great grandkids, but she made my day saying mine were adorable.  Thank you random lady :)

Both were out by the time we got home.  I played Lego's Pirates while Kathryn continued her nap.  I don't think Andrew slept anymore, but I made him "rest" in his crib anyway.  I hear him playing on the little piano right now.  At least bedtime should be easy for him tonight.

 

randomness for the week

My kids have gone through a gallon of milk in less than 48 hours & are asking for more.

Kathryn likes to point at random things with words and say to Andrew, "You see that sign?  It says you can not do that" {whatever "that" may be at the time}.  A moment ago it was the menu on the fridge saying he could not get the milk out of the door.

Andrew has flip-flop tan lines.

It never fails.  If I fix fish sticks for lunch, Andrew will be asleep before he has finished the second stick.

Kathryn said to me the other day, "Mommy, when you get smaller and I get bigger and I am driving and you do not get into your seat car when I say so, I will give you a spanking.  Because that is what Kathryns do."

"Because that is what Kathryns do" can be applied to anything... spankings, jumping off couches, crying, throwing toys, crayons on the carpet, etc.

Kathryn picked out clothes and got dressed all by herself today.  Only glitch was the panties on backwards.

Kathryn does not like her hair behind her ear.  My hair, if down, is always behind my ears.  I can't stand it in my face.  So out of habit, I push hers behind her ears if she is eating or doing something else that her hair needs to be out of her face.  She in turn pulls it right back down.

The other day, Kathryn came & got her stool so she could turn on her light.  Little did we know, until too late, that her ceiling fan was on and the light wasn't.  She put the stool on her bed and pulled the string to turn the light on.  Intuitive, but not real bright.

Kathryn will gladly tell you that she will be 3 in a couple of days.  I wonder how many free kids meals we can get before Thursday??

An "A"!

Kathryn wrote her first "A" today!  I'm so proud of her! 

I wrote her name.  She's been drawing As.

my little helper

Kathryn has been "helping" me with my chores lately.

First, she thought she would save me time by painting her own toenails.  They needed more pink.

Then, I was being too slow and not picking the right items for our dinners for the next couple of weeks.  She decided to fill it in for me.

And then... she needed to teach me how to fold the laundry because for the past twenty plus years I've been doing it all wrong...

She's growing up.  And even though sometimes she can be "that child" that makes me want to scoop her up and run away from public, I love every kissable square inch of her.

What a day

I had planning on taking the kids outside this morning.  But on my way out I hear the lawn guys.  Figures.  I was deciding on what to do instead and a friend called to invite us to the park with them.

We play.  I was ready to get home.  It was lunch time and I knew that Andrew was getting tired.  I told Kathryn if she wanted to go to Daddy's picnic tomorrow, we needed to leave.  She bee-lined it for the car.  I don't know if she forgot or was too excited about tomorrow, but she didn't see the rope fence.  :(

I think my heart stopped until she screamed.  She was clothes-lined and lying on the ground.  I almost dropped Andrew running to her.  She wasn't as hurt as she could have been.  I think she may not be running at the park for a while.

We came home and ate lunch.  Afterwards I felt the need to give her a treat.  So we made M&M cookies.

Now she is taking a nap.  My poor little girl :(