Action shots

Mike got behind the camera again during Lilly’s soccer practice last week…

We also took professional pictures so you may notice a costume change.

 

Chasing a hoop..Lilly’s favorite game by far

Bringing the hoop back to Coach

Time for a water break, “Daddy I’m coming”

 

Cheese

Chasing Mommy with the noodle

She thinks this is hilarious

 

Action shot..she got me!

When is doubt duck!  I think this is right before I tripped on the noodle and fell on my butt.

Payback…Mommy’s turn!

 

Another fun week of soccer in the books!

Lilly’s 2nd day of school

I promise I won’t do a post every time Lilly goes to school, I just wanted to share a few pictures of Lilly on her second day of school.  She picked out her own outfit, she did a great job as a model for Lilly Pie Creations..hehe!

Remember last week when I said Lilly refused to use the potty at school.  Well this week I prepared her and told her that she needed to listen to her teachers when they told her it was time to go potty.  She did listen the first time, then she fell in the potty.  Yup you read that right she fell in the potty!! Her teacher set her up on the potty and turned around to help the next kid and she fell in, Lilly now claims the prize as the first kid to fall in the potty in her class. Her teacher said that she has never had a kid fall in the potty in her class before.  She also said, she knows now to hold Lilly when she sits on the potty.  I honestly think it’s hilarious, of course my kid gets my clumsy gene (don’t worry Lilly you’re not the first person in our household to fall in the potty I promise).  Needless to say, she refused to go potty at school the rest of the day, and two weeks later she is still talking about falling in the potty at school!! 

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!