Toddler Time

I've been trying lots of toddler learning/play activity ideas from online. Some J loves and some he could careless about.

 Jackson loves my nesting mixing bowls and enjoyed dumping numbers in and aout along with putting them up on a cookie sheet. Easy, cheap all reuseable.

 Ralph had more fun with this than J. J couldn't care about hammering the ice to free the toys. I'll try it again though cause its free and easy and I think he could have fun with it.

I found 100 ballpit palls for 3 dollars at Goodwill. Lets just say he loves them and they are all over out house all the time. He had some fun in the pack-n-play throwing them around, but its not really worth the work to collect all of them into it since he loves them out.

These are beans and little foam letters someone game me. This activity J likes but he's done after 2 or 3 minutes. He likes the way the beans sound on the tile- so he throws them all over. I just sweep them up and put them in a bag to use again though, so at least its a cheap activity even if it doesn't last long.

Huge fail. I've seen this one several times. Jackson touched it like 3 times and then wanted down. I'll try again later because its cheap- since I own lots of  paint and I think it could be a good way to teach colors and how they can mix and make new colors.

Again with the nesting mixing bowls- he just really likes these.

Help Me! I've been abducted by Pinterest

This week my crafts exploded and I tried my hand at making some little girls clothes I found tutorials for on Pinterest. I made 2 pillowcase dresses- out of one pillowcase (this one turned out cute).

I made a huge puffy white TUTU! Its so girllllllllly. And it was crazy easy. Just takes some time for all the cutting and tying.

Scrap fabric tutu's are pretty big right now, and I had lots of scraps. This is how it turned out. I think it would be cuter if I had more coordinating fabric- but its still fun.

These are 2 of the 4 onesie dresses I made. Basically you make a skirt and attach to a onesie. A lady online added a little belt, which I did too, I think it makes it look a little fancier. The other 2 are smaller and kind of Christmas-y.

 So that's my progress. I've got so many more crafts that are partially done or semi-started! But I finished these 8. Now to make little headbands to match. This girl is going to be way more girly and cutely dressed than I am!

We Are Expanding

We found out a couple weeks ago that we are going to be having a little girl early in November!

Galveston Beach

We went to the beach a few weekends ago. Jackson wasn't sure about the water at first, but he didn't want to leave at the end of the day!

I'm Cute and I Know it (wiggle wiggle...)

I LOVE PIZZA

Lost Maples Camping

Ralph took us camping this weekend at Lost Maples- a state park west of San Antonio. Ralph has good memories of visiting there when he was growing up. We got to camp next to this little cliff and pond. It was beautiful. Only thing is it was a mile hike into our campsite (and we don't pack that light with Jackson- so two trips). Was a good time- beautiful dive. Oh and Jackson had his first band-aid- which he fell down and scraped right off with-in 20 minutes.