Rainbows

We made rainbow finger print art.

The children let me borrow their sweet little fingers for mine:


CB's:

"Those dot things, those are kisses. The unicorn friends are sharing apples."

BBD's:


"Mama, it's ART! We are gonna hang it up!"

The girl and I also used her birthday flowers to make rainbow-ish prints.

Mix it up

I came across a lovely spring tree craft idea here.

Things did not go as planned with paint blowing for the trunk {I got a big fat blob} so CB suggested that I "just use a paintbrush for the tree part". So we did.

Genius is in simplicity sometimes.

BUT there was still a need to blow some paint around...so we did that separately.

See how much fun it is?

Watching how the colors marbleize together is intriguing.


CB decided to combine the two projects to make this masterpiece:

There was also mixing of the play dough colors.



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Cupcake Flowers

Inspired by Valerie of one of my all time favorite sites, we made our own Build a Flower Activity Set.

The son was disappointed when I told him the baking cups I had out were to make flowers.
BBD: I thought you were going to make cupcakes.
M: How about muffins?
BBD:Of course!...and juice.

I didn't have cute baking cups so we fancified ours with good ole crayons. And trimmed them with the fancy scissors-which I also used to cut out the leaves.

Putting the flowers together is strangely calming, especially adding lots of beads. They are fun to build, and rebuild.


CB has a song for it "build it again, take it apart, build it again, take it apart, add a new leaf, put on a bead-see?, build it again-change it, build it again-change it, build it again-change it".




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Birthday Interview

Favorite color:

Blue

Favorite food:

Pepperoni pizza

“Are you talking about my favorite sugar treat”:

Cupcakes

Favorite song:

I have 2 favorite songs. Is that okay?

My Cuddle Song and Twinkle, Twinkle

Favorite thing about yourself:

That Boo Dah is happy. {She had him cracking up.} That I am nice and kind.

What do you like to do:

I like playing with my friends, a lot.

What do you want to do this year:

I want to have a party.

What do you want to do when you grow up:

I want to visit your house lots and lots and lots and lots.

Thoughts:

People don’t know that I am a ballerina.

Birthday Book Countdown

Our book countdown for Christmas was such a hit, that I decided to do one for the daughter's birthday as well.

This time, I just wrapped each book in a single sheet of construction paper and tied a simple string around. She enjoyed counting the books in the pile to see how many days were left. A little bit poked out on most of them and she would try to guess what the book would be about.


The books were piled in strategic order. We started with the Skippyjon Jones series, which both children absolutely fell in love with.


She danced around and jumped for joy when she opened "If You Give a Pig a Party" on the eve before her shindig.

And the main feature opened the morning of her birthday:

{It is this little ballerina's birthday in the story too.}

She was so excited to write her name in the front cover. She even included a heart.

She took it to school and Miss Amy read it to the whole class.

"You saved the best for last, Mom!"


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Birthday Traditions

Here are a few things that I have adopted to be Birthday Traditions. I wish I would have started them from the get go, but I can do them from now on.

BIRTHDAY BOOK COUNTDOWN

Click here for a full run down.

WATCH THEM GROW WALL DISPLAY


PICK YOUR CAKE

Dinner too.

BIRTHDAY BANNER

May seem silly, but it means a lot to the kids-as integral to the decorations as balloons. When I asked what we should get Pop for his birthday, the daughter said, "a birthday banner".

FLOWER DELIVERY
Daddy gets the girl a bouquet every year. {I am thinking the son would like a delivery of candy.}

BIRTHDAY INTERVIEW
Series of questions to be asked each year on the big day.

See an example here.

I would LOVE to hear about your traditions too.


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Say NO to litter boxes

Using the toilet is a pretty big deal in our house right now.

Prompted by this:


I was explaining to the son what a litter box is.

I want to poop in THAT!

So glad we don't have a litter box. Just so glad.

And hoping he doesn't discover an imaginative replacement.