play creatively
Jon and I had noticed that our boys behavior had been especially out of sorts in recent months. We noticed a significant increase in the drama department early on in the beginning of the year when we returned home from our holiday travels. They weren’t being creative, they didn’t really play with their toys and …
Hello fantastic friends! Thank you so much for all you kind words regarding our little Zero dollar gift exchange. We had a wonderful time doing it and I highly recommend you try it out, at least one year. You won’t regret it. I also wanted to give you a little update on our mix-n-match-em blocks. …
I wanted to share the gifts from our Christmas 2011 zero-dollar-gift-exchange earlier but I’m afraid I caught that pesky flu bug that I was so hoping to avoid. But I’m now alive and well and ready to jump right into the new year! If you have been following my blog you know that Jon and …
We’ve been having a lot of spooky fun over here – attending gigantic pumpkin contests, going on school field trips to Pumpkin Land and most recently making these very fun paper mache Halloween puppets. They are pretty simple and the boys are in love with them. In fact, little O now asks to play with …
I find that fashion inspiration can come from just about anywhere…and at anytime. But I have to say, I didn’t expect it to come from Little A’s toy box. Today, while working on fine motor skills, I pulled out his lacing beads. I started to make patterns on one strand, and he did the same …
Our Little A is a budding mathematician (or at least that is what his very biased mother thinks) and we are more than encouraging it (hey, the arts are great and all, but any other way to make a living and we say go for it!). He’s been obsessed with puzzles for quite some time …