Daycare Updates :)

Well it has been a while since i've posted anything.. I wish I could be the daily blogger but I just find myself to be too busy and too tired to write about stuff that often. Also.. what in the heck would I post? My life is not that exciting :-p

 I thought I would post a few photos of what we've been up to lately in the daycare room and out and about.

 Here are the kids at the park with their friend J. They were walking along this little ledge, all holding hands, and jumping into the leaves together. Pretty cute stuff! Most days they play together great, especially when we're outside. Some days however, i'm not so lucky :-p

 I've been meaning to do this for about a year or so now and have finally got around to making labels for our toy bins! I took photos a few weeks ago, had them printed, stamped some paper for a background, and covered them with clear plastic sticky stuff of which I totally forget the name of.. a cheap and easy way to sort of laminate them :)  Now the kids find it super easy to clean up! They're getting to be quite the amazing helpers, phew! I knew I wouldn't be cleaning up that play room forever.

 I spotted these lovely book ends a week or so ago that matched our red kitchen perfectly! They were only $12 from winners so I just couldn't pass them up!  About a month or so ago I tried out a Pinterest idea and melted some crayons to stretched canvas, I love it! I have yet to frame it or even bother looking for a frame.. for now it looks pretty good as is I think!

 

I'm not a clean freak by any means but I wasn't regularly letting the kids get messy inside and this was the day I decided that I should be! They're kids, let them get messy and explore! We started off by using apples and potatoes as stamps in the paint and I think it was a whole 3 minutes until little E started painting her hands and rubbing them on the paper :) They had a blast! 

 Here is our painting and paper artwork stuck to the art wall! The kids have also been experimenting with gluing and tried some mitten lacing the other day.

 I don't remember if I originally saw these ideas on Pinterest or on a blog.. or both perhaps ? I finally got my stuff together and made the kids a bean bin! I'm thinking of changing the objects in the bean bin monthly perhaps according to the season or upcoming holidays.. either way, the kids love to pour, scoop, arrange, and bury with the beans. I also decided to try something a bit different with playdough. Toys are fun and all but why can't glass beads and straws be fun too!? It was really neat to see what the kids did with no instruction at all from me. They amaze me every day with their little minds :)

Missing My Man!

Happy Belated Halloween! I've been way too tired this past week to be on the ball with posting a nice Halloween post.. so I'm sorry for the delay :)  Jeff has been away for 10 days now and I've been on my own almost the entire time with the two munchkins. Jeff was lucky enough to get to travel to Chile for work and was able to take a little side trip to Mendoza, one of our favorite destinations. Lucky BUM!

My Mom came to visit for two days last week and it was so nice to spend time with her and have her help :) We got down to work when the kids were sleeping and she helped me paint the bricks in the playroom white. Photo to come.. She also spoiled me with yummy treats! I love my momma!

 

Mom and I took the munchkins to the pumpkin patch only to find a whole lotta rotting pumpkins!

This is with the bricks painted their new white :) They were the regular brick colours or black, grey and orangey/rust colour. Thanks momma!

Halloween wasn't as exciting as it might have been if Jeff had been home. I was exhausted from a busy day with the kids, Hudson had to nap, and Landon had to get out early to trick or treat. He had fun going from door to door but was only interested in going to 4 houses. Ah well, that's alright with me. We headed home and he had a blast handing out candy to the bigger kids, often asking them to come in and play with his toys and look at his diggers. A few of them attempted to run in and play but we steered them back to the door and off they went in tears :-p Guess we'll hide the toys next year.. ?

During the day we headed to our friend's place for a Halloween playdate and it was so nice to see the other mommies. The kids had a blast playing with all of the toys and I had a great time chatting :)

 Our Prince Ronald from The Paper Bag Princess

 All of the munchkins!

Our little Hudson gnome :)

Rainy Days

I've been holding on to Summer as long as possible but I think it's time to officially say good-bye! Rainy days are everyday lately and the leaves are all starting to change. Bring on the muddy buddies, leaf collections, and leaf jumping! The only difficulty is that I'm carrying Hudson in the front carrier and in order to keep him dry I need to hold an umbrella. Not a big deal, just means my hands are full either pushing the stroller or toting the wagon down to the neighbourhood park  :)
Here are two rainy day pics from our lovely time out visiting my family on Thanksgiving weekend. I hope you all had a fabulous long weekend doing whatever it is that you did! :)

Oranges and Yellows

I am SO loving the fall colours right now. The oranges, yellows, browns and reds are popping up every where and we're soaking it up. To help get our house a little more fall-like I did a cute pumpkin craft with the kids and we built a little scarecrow for our front porch out of Landon's clothes and a

pumpkin. 

 

Just down the road we have an awesome little park with a great maple tree full of changing leaves. We go there almost every day, especially lately because of the leaves, and jump, run, roll, throw.. you name it :) The kids love it and I love to take pics :)

Scrap Happy!

It felt like I would never get to scrapbooking the arrival of our little Hudson! Somehow, however, I  managed to squeeze in some much needed scrapping time and I'm almost up to date with all of his photos. For Landon I scrapbooked his first year of life in a special album that I plan on giving him as a keepsake when he is older. So of course I'm doing the same for this little monkey! Here are just a few of the pages I have done and some new ideas i've used.. they're not all totally done as I am going to add in his hospital card and bracelets too :) Yay for scrapbooking!

 

 

Hudson hanging out while momma scrapbooks! 

Mason Jar Jack-o-lanterns!

I've been cruising around Pinterest now for about a month or so and I've added so many great idea photos to my boards. At times it seems like it's quite a waste of time as I seem to spend hours on it each week.. but I'm getting ideas that I will use someday, right? Right! With a new little baby I haven't had quite the same amount of crafting/DIY/me time as I had prior to him arriving and just now I'm finally getting some more time to do neat little things. Finally I can prove to myself, and other skeptics, that this lovely time wasting site is full of AWESOME ideas :)
So here is the first thing I have attempted - mason jar jack-o-lanterns!

I started out with a collection of mason jars from the pantry and scrounged around through my lovely tissue paper collection to find some great Fall colours. I created a modge podge with water and white glue and glued the paper to the jars.

After they were dry I cut some cute faces and glued em on, and voila! I would like to get some other colours of ribbon for the tops of a few of the jars, but that can wait. Now I need to find some tea lights and put them perhaps in the front window at nigh

Life with two monkeys!

Not too sure what to write about here.. i've been wanting to blog for weeks now but just haven't sat down to do anything about it. My boys are growing like weeds and I'm trying my best to soak it all up.

Reading a book with daddy

The summer was full of so many exciting and fun events that we did together both as a family and just myself and the boys. We were able to spend so much time with my mommy friends and their little ones, go camping, try out the local water parks and beaches, and spend some much needed time with family.

It has been interesting trying to split my time between the two boys, my social life, hobbies, housework, and my hubby. Thankfully I think my crazy pregnancy hormones have finally disappeared and the random crying has come to a halt! Halleluiah! Plus I'm feeling a tad more rested which means I can handle things a bit better overall... the house may not always be clean and the laundry isn't exactly always put away, but I'm enjoying my boys and this amazing journey we are all in together :)

Hudson and I on his first airplane ride. Off to Nelson to see my friends Brandie and Chris tie the knot!

Working with Dad

Bedtime with three boys (Linus included)... read a book and feed the cat treats!

 

My beautiful children. I'm so excited to watch them grow and learn :)