That’s not where I left you!

I’ve been saying this a lot lately, Raelynn is really starting to scoot and roll around more.  I put her on her play mat the other day and looked over at her a minute or two later and found this..

 

Rolly polly, Raelynn still hates tummy time, but is she puts herself there she is ok with it. 

Thumb sucker #2!  She has a little monkey tucked away under her shoulder like she is cuddling with it.  She is just so stinkin’ cute!

“Oh, hi Momma!”  She back on her back..how did she do that?

 

Yummy feet!

Organizing OCD

Have I mentioned that I love Pinterest??  Not only have I gotten tons of new recipes and great activities for the girls, I have also gotten some great new organizational ideas.  I keep running across “pins” with these beautiful weekly menu planners and dry erase boards for to do lists and other planning stuff.  I’m a huge planner and list maker so the idea of a craft that helped me stay organized made this crafty mommy a happy camper! 

After lots of planning I decided on a weekly menu board for the kitchen and an area by the door to the garage to hold paper and a place to hang backpacks, purses and lunch boxes.  I’m super happy how it all turned out!

 

My helper

This is just a plain old cork board, I used my favorite damask fabric, some adhesive spray and my cake icing spatula to make it look like this.

 

Clothes pins, fabric strips and DIY mod podge to make the clips

I hot glued thumb tacks to the back of the clothes pins

Finished product, there are 7 clothes pins to hold a meal for each day of the week. When I shop I make sure I get enough dinner for 7 meals each week, I don’t plan what day we eat them though.  Under that there’s a pocket for recipes and a pocket to hold the strips of paper with the meals printed on them.  I still need to get those printed out. And under it there are 2 more clothes pins to clip important things to, right now there is a McDonald’s monopoly piece for free medium french fries :)

 

Project #2

 

This is a 8”x10” picture frame that I put a piece of fabric in.  Now it’s a dry erase board!

Heavy duty magnets for the magnet board

I hot glued these clear decorative “marbles” to the magnets to make them look pretty

Magnet board, I bought the magnet board and glued this fabric to it and used my handy cake icing spatula again to push the fabric under the frame.

2 dry erase boards (picture frames) and one magnet board

Hooks for the wall

Here’s the prep work, I used the 3M picture hangers so I didn’t put a million holes in the wall.  I’m not very good at finding studs in the wall so I also used some anchors to attach a 1”x3” piece of wood to the wall for the hooks.

 

Finished product! There are two dry erase boards (one blank and one with the days of the week) and a magnet board in the middle. Under that a 1”x3” piece of wood painted the same color as the wall with four hooks to hang stuff on.

 

In addition to all of this I had an extra 11”x14” frame that I put some pretty pink and white dumask fabric in to create a dry erase board for my Lilly Pie Creations work space. 

Lots of pictures

Lilly and Raelynn were being super cute the other day so I took about million pictures…sorry for the photo bomb

 

Kisses from big sister

 

Baby in motion…a gymnast in the making maybe?

Waiting for the garbage truck to come by

We added a 2nd ottoman by the window, and now its kind of like a window seat

Max likes it too, silly puppy

Don’t you just love that poofy ponytail?

The many faces of Lilly

 

This is her happy face

Her mad face..she’s a little confused

This is her sad face, again confused

This is her silly face

Can you hear Lilly saying, “No Mommy, YOU do it!”

Mommy’s turn to play soccer

Last weekend Lilly wanted me to play soccer with her in her Soccer Tots class.  This was surprising, normally I’ll start playing with her then she will beg for Daddy to play instead.  I don’t think Lilly knows that mommy is the one that likes sports in our house.  This gave Daddy a chance to take some pictures of of me and the bug! 

 

Racing across the field, Lilly thought it was hilarious that she was holding on to my leg as we tried to run

Kicking over cones

One of our favorite games..tickling the parents with a noodle

Got’cha

 

Going after the camera man..haha!

Now it’s Mommy’s turn

 

This is by far her favorite game, coach throws a hoop down the field and lets each kid chase it and bring it back.  This week Lilly was at the end of the line.  She waited patiently and when it was her turn she screamed the whole way down the field until she got the hoop then the whole way back, all of the parents were laughing hysterically!

 

Walking backwards, she still can’t do it by herself.

Coach called out a color and the kids had to run to it and stand inside that hoop.

Lilly had to kick a ball around a bunch of cones and into the goal…she did a great job, she didn’t knock over any cones!

I’m not sure if you can see it but she’s standing in the goal with her ball after she kicked it around all of the cones.  She did it like a professional, I was amazed!

Raelynn’s First Solid Food

A week shy of 5 months and still no solids?  Yep you are right, we decided to wait as long as possible to give Raelynn solids. Breastfed babies really don’t need solids until 6 months as long as they are on track with their weight gain.  This is a totally different approach than we took with Lilly, on her 4 month birthday we gave her rice cereal.   Last week I got a wild hair and thought Raelynn may be ready for solids, she watches and looks longingly at us when we eat anything near her.  Either she is not ready or she really doesn’t like baby oatmeal, totally opposite from Lilly she loved oatmeal and could eat it by the truck load if you let her. 

Here are a few pictures and a video that I took of the oh so MESSY adventure.

A before picture..nice and clean

 

Just a little messy

 

More mess

I don’t think any oatmeal made it to her tummy, most of it is caked in her neck

 

Silly Girl

 

Lilly’s First Day of School

Today was Lilly’s first day of school, school started 2 weeks ago but we were late enrolling her.  I’ll blame that on having a baby and loosing track of time this summer. Between dealing with a newborn and potty training, registering Lilly for school was kind of on the back burner. 

Ok back to today…Monday I asked Lilly if she wanted to go to school without Mommy and Daddy and she nodded her head.  I kept telling her over and over again that she would be there all day without Mommy and Daddy and every time she said “o.k momma,” like I get the point mom bring me to school! So after touring the school, making a nap mat, packing a lunch and backpack we were ready to drop our doodle bug off for her first day of school!  Mike took the day off so he could be there at drop off and pick up, I think really she was very happy to have both parents (and little sister) drop her off at school and then be there to pick her up at the end of the day. 

This morning Lilly woke up and asked me if today was a “gool” day.  She was pretty excited about going, excited about carrying her backpack, excited about her new nap mat and excited about school all around!  Here are a few pictures I took before we left the house.

Lilly posing with Tigger in her backpack..of course he went with her

Look how excited she is!

Woah..looks like those soccer skills are helping her coordination a little :)

We had a successful drop off, no tears were shed (neither momma nor Lilly), she went straight for the yellow frog that she played with the other day when we toured her class room.  We actually stayed a little while to talk to her teacher and Lilly disappeared to go play, she did so much better than I expected.  I really thought she would cry her little eyes out (like she used to when I dropped her off at the same place for my mom’s group), but she didn’t and was happy as a clam. 

Mike and I came home and played with Raelynn like she was and only child..Raelynn also had a wonderful day!  At 3:00 sharp (ok maybe a little earlier) we went to pick Lilly up from school.  She was happy to see us but more concerned about her popsicle (cake pop) that another mom brought as a treat for the end of the day.  Lilly’s teachers said she was great, the only hiccup was that she didn’t want to go potty so she wet through her pull up at nap time.  Oh and she decided not to sleep at nap time.  So we picked up our grumpy girl in a fresh new outfit and came home.  After an hour or so of grumpy mess this happened…

She zoned out like this on the couch for over an hour!

Lilly went to bed about 15 minutes early tonight…that is a sign of a very successful day in my opinion!