Playdough

As promised, pictures of our playdough! I got the recipe from here. In fact, we got many of our summer activities from The Idea Room.

I wasn't sure that David would enjoy the playdough. He only half helped me make it. I have to tell you though, this playdough smells so good! Who knew that flavored fruit drink could make things smell so good! We made ours with grape mix, and have fruit punch to make another batch. David loves it! He and Nate will sit for ever at the kitchen counter building and making things. Nate helps David make train like things, and then he builds. Here are some pictures of the fun. Ignore the drawing on David. He saw Nate accidently mark on himself, so he wanted some "ink" too.



My resourceful side

In case you were wondering, it is hot in Indiana. Like really hot. I don't like the heat. It makes my hair frizzy and me cranky. Alas, I still have a 2 year old to entertain. What to do, what to do...
I should be able to do something with shaving cream and cars, right? Why, yes I can, and it was a HUGE hit! (And David smelled like rasberries for a while after too.)

First, you must cover your arms in the shaving cream...

 

 

Then cover all of your cars...



 

Cheesey smile for mom

 

 

So, there was an activity for one day. Now, since we are on day a million of 90+ degrees, we needed another activity. Surely mommy can do something with some shampoo, cornstarch, and food coloring. Again, why yes she can. Another hit! We have done this a few times since. So easy and entertaining.

 

Our colors. David helped pick what colors we made. (I finally found a use for my ice cube tray!)

 

 

 

The masterpiece, although the brown just looks like poop.

 

 

Tha paints float in the water.

 

 

So happy!

 

 

This is what you get when you dump all of your paints in the water. Brown poo looking water - gross. But look at that cute butt!

 

 

So easy and clean up was a snap! Next post will be playdough! It smells like grape koolaid - yummy!

Firsts

Last night was David's 1st night in his transitional bed. He was a rock star and slept in the bed the whole night and didn't even get out of it this morning until I came in to his room. It sits low to the ground, so he very easily could have gotten out. I was so impressed to find him in his bed when I walked in this morning and this afternoon after his nap. Let's hope the trend continues.

Since we had accomplished the big boy bed, we decided that it was time for a real haircut. We had done some trims, but nothing major. Today we went to Cookie Cutters to do the first haircut. It was pretty cool, and they do kids cuts well.

Here are the before pics:



Some action shots. He did so well! They put in a movie (Bob the Builder) and let him pick his car. He thought it was so cool. I thought it was amazing at how still he sat while she cut his hair!

And the after shots. He is not amused that we took a zillion pictures. He just wanted his balloon and sucker.

It was a good day for David, and a hard day for mommy. He is getting so big and has such a personality. This summer his speech has come so far! I can actually understand what he wants most of the time. Tonight at dinner he spilled some of his juice and said "Awe man!" Cracked me up because that was a new phrase for him. He is such a big boy!

Outtings

I am off for the summer, and I love spending time with David. However, if we don't get out of the house at least 4 of 5 days, I tend to get grouchy. I am not a stay-at-home mom, although sometimes I wish I was.

Anyway, since we (I) need to get out of the house, we have become creative on what we do so that we are not always spending money, or at least not very much. We go to the library, $1 movies, the zoo (we have a membership), the other zoo (aka PetCo), the playground (when it's not 90 degrees), and our latest outing, our local thrift store (read Goodwill, but doesn't thrift store sound better?). I wasn't looking for specific, just looking. I'm tired of my decor, so I'm slowly replacing things. Nate says its okay, but to remember our ultimate goal of getting out of debt. Free is great (like this) but cheap is the next best thing. I've been keeping my eyes open for things I can rework to fit into our space.

Back to my outing. It was 90+ degrees on the day we went. It was an outting with AC all in one. While walking through the isles (killing time before nap time), I picked up books for David (you can't beat 0.69 each for Dr. Seuss books), and a pair of shoes. On our way out, we headed down the last isle, when my heart skipped a beat. I found the perfect piece of art for my wall. I didn't care the price, I was buying it. Much to me delight, it was only $13! Even Nate agreed that it was worth $13.

Here is what we had before. Nice, and it was only $10 at Big Lots 4 years ago. It just doesn't scream that a boy (two actually) live here now.

And my new purchase. L.O.V.E.

 

I'll reuse the old canvas. We'll be re-doing the guest bedroom into David's big boy room soon, so I may do something for his room. Best part of redoing it is that if I do like it, I can paint over it and start again.