Whats New Wednesdays

So, ok I have been slacking somewhat, but I happy to say that my slacking is thankfully limitied to my blog, I have been doing sooo many actvities with Austin, we have WEEKS worth of WW posts.
But this week, we will show you THREE things we have done, since we have missed three posts.

ONE:

With Spring in full bloom, we found this adorable, and awesome idea.

We spent TWO dollars. A suet feeder, peices of scrap yarn and wool fresh off the sheep ( thanks to an awesome coworker) andVOILA, watch the birds build beautiful and colorful nests for their eggs


TWO: We found this super easy bird feeder recipe, with toilet paper holders, peanut butter ( all naturaul) and bird food

It said you could hang ribbon on it, but we could not find our hole punch, and liked the idea of just slidding them on the braches

and THREE:

Back in March we found this game to play for St Patties, but it has stuck, we hunt for gold coins ALL the time, and Austin loves it. If you are looking for a fun acitvity that doesnt involve the televison, this seriously keeps his occupied for SO LONG

All we do is hide the coins, he comes into the room and has tp lace them on the map.

HE. LOVES.IT

* WW * ( on a Thursday)

This week has been dragging, I pulled a muscle in my back earlier this week and let's just say have spent a lot of time lying on my back doing NOTHING!

 

And if I may point out, when momma's sick it seems time freezes, life cannot go on without her.

 

This week, pre-back spasm, we made THIS CAKE:

 

it was so easy.

 

three ingredients: oreo pie crust

strawberries, cut

and chocolate pudding mix

 

 

 

It was SO good!

 

I have to make this short, because I need to lie down :)

 

FUN posts coming up, including Easter and birthday parties

 

 

WW

Easter is right around the corner, two weeks away.

We focused our search to spring-y and Easter-y related activities..


This week we choose Easter Bunny Vases, found HERE

painting our cans

Applying with tacky glue, our cut out ears

Glue on the eyes

AND Voila, you have two bunny- vases. They turned out to be NOTHING like the ones on pinterest.

BUT just as cute, and JUST as fun for Austin

 



IN fact he loved them so much, that he really,really wanted to put REAL flowers in them. He went outside in search for flowers. I did not even bother to tell him that we didnt have any flowers yet, because it is only March.
HE came back with two long, and very much dead, flowers left over from last year.
IT was THE.CUTEST. THING. EVER!

Such a sweet boy. When he wants to be.
But hey. who isn't right?

* Whatever Wednesdays*

 

 

We are soooo ready for Spring in our home..

 

This week we decided to put some egg cartons to good use and make catapillars..

 

 

You don't need to be a professional artist to impress children, just a little imagination, and mostly time.

 

 

All we needed was egg cartons, markers, googely eyes, and antenas

 

 

 

 

It's really the most simple of things, but this made my sons afternoon.

 

Creating meaningful time with our kids is so easy, and also easy to neglect. With two full time working parents, and a baby I put a lot of intent into my my relationship with my son.

 

We go on dates, we do crafts, we bake,

 

He is starting to look forward to our weekly tradition of "researching" our next project.

 

Being a parent is so easy, and yet so hard. Having all our love wrapped up into these little creatures, who only looks to you for answers. It's a lot of pressure. But mostly rewarding. To see him conquer something new, or feed his sister, or even put his shoes on the right feet. Is is the BEST feeling I will ever feel. Ah a mothers love..

 

Addy is TEN months old now, where has the time gone?

 

She started clapping today. SO adorable. She is so darn proud of herself.

 

Tonight at dinner, every time she took a bite she clapped, and momma said " YAY"

 

Because it is something to celebrate..

 

Here's to life.

 

 

 

 

 



* Whatever Wednesdays *

Well is it Wednesday already? This week we did something a little different. And by different I mean, we didnt really do something new, due to time issues.. okay it sounds like an excuse, but whateve Im a bust mom

It is my belief that as a society we overstimulate ourselves and our children, with tvs, and phones, and computers and all these gadgets and toys. Sometimes it's so nice to shut it all off, listen to nothingness. Not to say I dont love and live with my phone near my side. However, sometimes I  fantasize about living with less technology..

What I am getting to is, I use the internet for dinner ideas, party themes, crafts and all these mommy things, but sometimes I come across really cool articles, and gain insight and inspriation on parenting.

We have been researching some very cool St. Patties crafts, because I do love me a holiday to celebrate, and I did marry into an Irish family. so, when in Rome..

We also have been talking a lot about Heaven.
Austin came across baby James picture, and said " that was me when I was in the hospital"
And I told him, that it was his cousin, Keke's brother, but he never met him, he lives in heaven.

We talk about Baseball, sign ups are tomorrow night,

We talk about Daddy's new job, " he is a good guy"

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Now I am off to overstimulate my senses with SURVIVOR!

Tata


 

* Whatever Wednesdays*

So my previous title, has been replaced by "Whatever Wednesdays"
The theme is still the same however.
Each week we try something new, albeit a craft, a recipe, or a fun activty, that we discover on the world wide web, or mostly pinterest. And of course, blog about it :)


This week we ventured into the kitchen to try something, we have never done before.

Something for our fourlegged family member, who on the day-to-day sometimes gets forgotten with the hussle and bustle of our busy weeks.

Homemade Dog treats,
recipe found: HERE

It's really rather simple, and totally changeable to your doggies taste buds.


First we mixed our ingredients ( only four, peanutbutter, milk, flour and soda) The recipe called for what seemed like a lot of treats, so we cut our in half and it made a total of 24 treats

Next, be amazed at your momma's amazing ball forming talents..

this was not staged, he was just being a goof ball

Then use your rolling pin to roll it out, like cookies. You will need extra flour to make it less sticky.



using his rolling pin from aunt rere

Then  choose your cutter, we have this huge bin of cookie cutter shapes, but you dont need to make it dog boned shaped it can be anything, or even just round. Dogs dont really notice the details.. :)

Then cut them out, just like you would cookies

Put them on a cookie sheet, ungreased, bake at 350 for about 15 minutes, will get hard, like a normal dog treat..

Let cool.

And enjoy.

Abby very much enjoyed these, Austin however did not.

He asked to try one, and I figured it couldn't hurt. He spit it out saying " these are just for dogs, not people, mom"

So there you go.
ONLY feed them to doggies. Not kids

Abby Approved