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Monday, July 18, 2011

A Belated Birthday Dedication to Little Son

Little Son turned 3 on July 10th and I posted about his Messy Art Birthday Party, but I also wanted to do a single post dedicated to his 2nd-3rd year and how much he's grown up.

He really is an incredible little boy!

Last year his 2nd birthday theme was a Pancake Birthday Party (his favorite food at that time).

This picture was taken the month before he turned 2 while he was Fly Swatter Painting.

I can't resist posting a few of my favorite baby pictures of him

And here are my favorite pictures of him in his 2nd year.

Summer

soon after turning 2

First time catching crawdads

Fall

He's wearing the apple print shirt I just made him.

Look at that sweet face! He still had a bit of "babyness" to him

Halloween

Homemade costume put together in 15 minutes! He was a road!

He loved it because there were cars glued all over the front of him!

Winter

First day with NEW GLASSES

First BIG snow and snow angel

Came into the living room to find that he had "gotten ready" all by himself to go sledding.

Spring

First honeysuckle

Can't forget the daisy nipples haha!

And finally...this summer

Sometimes I just dont know how we got from

HERE

But it has been the best 3 years of my LIFE!

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Our Week in Pictures

A Weekly Post

That Captures the Memories We've Made

From Monday-Sunday

(including the cat)

(playing a bit of catch up this week with this post. Seems i'm always doing that...)

4th of July

Seriously, can any part of my body get any rounder?!

just a few more weeks!

Learning to wash his OWN dishes. He loves it!...for now anyway haha

L and his "Nonny" (my mom) cooking steak and scallops on the grill.

Playing in the rain! I was nice and dry under my umbrella.

L at Fastlanes

playdough

Shower ISpy.

We have a marble shower with blue swirls and my husband and I are always finding "things" in the swirls that the other has to find. We BOTH found this one the same day.

Can you guess who it is?

It's the snake off of Disney's The Jungle Book (or Robin Hood..same snake)

He looks like he's scared. Can you see it? lol

The next one for my hubby to find is the moose

on a kidless evening I took a drive by myself past our road for the first time since moving in. I say this almost every day...I love Arkansas! Everything is just gorgeous.

I pulled over at several spots just to take pictures. I never take this beautiful land we live in for granted. It always stuns me.

I actually drive past this every day and wonder whats back there. During the evening (around 7pm) the light shines through so beautifully and it's been calling my name! I finally pulled over to take a peek.

closer and closer

and then I saw a snake...so i'll be saving the peek into the field for another day.

A vine forrest that I couldn't resist pulling over for. It was more like a kingdom!

A delicious fruit lunch!

Oh, and any drink tastes better when it's in a mason jar.

Linked Activities

(click the pics)

L's Messy Art Birthday Party

Shaving Cream and Powdered Paints

Painting on a dry erase board

and lets not forget

Caddy Cat

I Spy Caddy Cat.

Can you find her?

Caddy peeking out of the rocket. She has claimed this tent as her playhouse.

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Painting on a Dry Erase Board

This huge dry erase board is my alltime favorite garage sale find. There were two for 7 dollars a piece (do you know how much these things normally cost?!) so my mom and I each took one for L to play with at our houses. Ours is in his room with all sorts of magnets on it. He loves it!

However, today it occured to me that he could probably paint on it with washable paint! I tested a corner and it wiped right off. So, then outside it went and the fun began :)

I love that L plays great independantly but also asks me to join in quite often.

I'm usually always up for messy fun.

One thing L always does is ask me to draw out a story or scene of some type. These are always his ideas. I know he loves to see his thoughts come to life. In this case, he asks me to paint a tree with apples ( I painted the tree and he added apples). Then he asked that I paint him climbing the tree trying to get an apple. He also wanted me by the tree watching him climbing it.

So thats what I TRIED to paint.

I think ive mentioned before that i'm the worst artist in the world.

It's all stick figures and cartoonlike creations with me...but L doesn't mind :)

He then asked that I draw a rainbow, which I did. Then he wanted it to be a circle. So I turned it into a circle and he asked that I put certain people standing on top of the rainbow-naming them one by one (he included me and daddy, and some of his friends and even one of daddy's friends)