I tried my hand at cookie decorating (piping and flooding) tonight. I’m pretty happy with outcome! Hopefully I’ll find some time to do a few more tomorrow. It’s a time consuming hobby!
Tickled Pink!
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Well, hello sunshine!
What a beautiful day! Started with a happy boy out the door early for school, happy girl off to school, a tiny bit of Valentine’s day shopping (shh!!), WW meeting (down 2.8lbs!!!), back to pick up a happy girl from school, lunch with daddy, and an afternoon in the sunshine. Ahhh… I love sunshine! I even have sunshine bread (sunflower seed and raisin) in the oven right now to keep the happiness coming. Happy day!
At the bus stop, waiting for big brother.
I love this series of three photos.
Here comes the bus!
Lex was tired and went right inside, but Eve and I stayed outside in the beautiful sunshine. She was super helpful shoveling the driveway. She is a good worker when she wants to be.
Eve wrote her name in the giant snowbank on the edge of our driveway. Can you see it? Right between her and my shadow.
Tip of the Day: Use packing tape
I read somewhere (Parents magazine, maybe) a suggestion to use tape to keep kids mittens and gloves on in the snow. My first thought was “that looks silly,” followed quickly by “but hmm… I wonder…” Both of my kids lose their mittens in the snow several times each outing, despite all the velcro fasteners on their snazzy winter clothes. When we went outside this morning I was able to talk Lex into letting me wrap his arm with packing tape :) Eve, of course, wanted some too! I got Lex out the door, then got Eve dressed and out the door, then myself. When I made it out, Lex yelled “Mom! The tape is working!” And it did. We were out for about an hour and their hands stayed nice and warm. Yay!
Here’s a quick video from this morning too.
I ended it just a second too soon. Right after I stopped it he said, “That Did Not Work.” :)
Love is in the air
Aren’t they adorable?!?! Lex was reading a birthday party invite to Eve. Crazy thing, we have two birthday parties this Sunday, overlapping. The kids are trying to decide which one they want to attend. I’m not crazy enough to try and juggle both!
They melt my heart.
We started making Valentine’s Day cards today. As I did last year, I laid out a bunch of supplies and the kids went to work. I love how creative they are and how liberal they are in expressing their love. I hope they never lose that! I’ll post pictures of some of the cards they made later, but here is the work in progress.
Lex, hard at work. He got 8 done today! He has a lot to make this year.
Serious Eve, working the glue.
Silly Eve with her rudolph nose.
A new sticker chart
Last week, while listening to Lex very excitedly tell me that he only has to earn two more stickers at school to get a fancy bracelet prize (he got it today!), it occurred to me that we haven’t done sticker charts around here in awhile and it may be a useful to our morning routine. I discussed it with him this weekend and he was super excited. Together we made up a chart, some goals (out the door with no fussing and in the car by 8am), and some rewards (watch a movie, date with mom or dad, trip to the science museum, etc.) The deal is if he gets all five stickers in a week he’ll get to choose a reward on the weekend. He has been talking about this since Saturday and was out the door bright and early Monday and today. It’s awesome, so far! I know it won’t last forever, but I’m hoping it will at least last long enough to put an end to his whining about school habit.
He hung it on his door and asks me each morning if he can put a sticker on the chart. He is so cute!
Of course we’ve already run into a small glitch. Snow day tomorrow. That’s probably an automatic sticker, right? He shouldn’t lose the week because of the weather. :)
More for Lex:
See what Lex learned from his fire station pamphlets?
Check out the sun shining through our "stained glass" pictures. It was beautiful.