Bread Painting

What do you do with a 3 year old and a 1 year old on a cold, rainy day and you have no car? Bread painting, of course. I stumbled across this idea (I can't remember where) and thought it was the cutest idea. We mixed milk and food coloring together, got ourselves some bread and paintbrushes, and went to town. Summer was only interested for about 2 minutes before she decided to just eat her bread, but Logan lasted a lot longer. But as long as Summer has food in her little hands she's happy so this was a resounding success in the Newell household. After the bread was all beautified we popped it in the toaster and had a nice afternoon snack.

Trick or Treat

Oh, you though that since I haven't posted in over a week that you would be spared the Halloween pics of my kids? Think again. I just dropped my mum and sister off at the airport. They've been here for almost two weeks, and since my office also acts at a spare bedroom my blogging has suffered. But never fear, I am back! And with pictures of my beautiful girl and sill super hero in their Halloween costumes. And no, I did not make them. Maybe one year I'll get myself organized enough to do that.

 Summer was Princess Jasmine for Halloween. When I was shopping for costumes the model for the costume looked surprisingly similar to my baby girl, and that is where they got me. I am such a sucker for advertising it's not even funny. I can't even count the head shakes I've gotten from my husband at my weakness for a good ad.

 It took us weeks of convincing, and finally my husband drawing a beard on himself, to get Logan to have a fake Tony Stark beard. He had a mask but I knew he wouldn't wear it for long. I love the beard though. Every time I looked at him I couldn't help but laugh.

I have quite a few more pictures, but I thought I'd spare you. Happy (Belated) Halloween!

Milk Jug Ghosts

Just a little warning: there is a slight chance that the Halloween theme will be dominating this blog for the next week. We've been very busy with all things spooky lately.

I'm sure many of you have seen this idea floating around out there, I will not claim that I came up with it. However, I will claim my own way of doing it and the month of preparing in order to save up enough milk cartons.

  This was a cute little craft that was quick, inexpensive, and something you're toddler will probably take a lot of pride in. I know Logan did. Tonight I found him outside turning on the lights for the ghosts. It was pretty simple. I let Logan draw faces on them, then I went over them with a permanent marker to clean it up. I then cut holes out of the bottom of the jugs. Once that was done I took them outside, placed them where I wanted them, and strung a string of icicle lights out in front of them. I stuffed a few strands of "icicles" into every ghost, buried the line, and voila! These little cuties:

They really turned out cute. Brian expressed his surprise on the outcome. He was a little dubious when I told him my plan. They look even cuter at night time all lit up, but my night picture skills are non-existent. So you'll just have to go make some and see for yourselves!

Tropical Toddler Snack

Logan loves fruit so I typically never have trouble getting him to eat it. But I saw this Palm Tree Snack idea floating around last week and thought it was so cute! These are some of Logan's favorite fruit to eat so I was able to whip it up on a whim. I don't think Logan totally understood that it was supposed to be a palm tree, but I thought it turned out so cute and quickly snapped a picture to send to Brian and my Mum. Oh, the simple joys of being a SAHM. 

The post that my pin led me to is written in another language but it has so many cute pictures of snack and lunch ideas for kids. I will defnitely be visiting this website again for some more fun ideas.

Car Painting

I pinned this idea from No Time For Flashcards a few months ago and on a rainy afternoon last week I thought I'd give it a try. Logan was really excited to paint with his trucks, but with the typical attention span of a 2-year-old grew tired of it quickly. I was able to prolong the activity by sitting down and doing it with him for a bit. Although it didn't take up as much time as I was hoping, anything that holds his attention for a little bit that isn't the t.v. is a successful activity in my books. I feel like if we were to try this again with one of his little boy friends it would last much longer. Although when there are two things tend to escalate quickly and I would probably be refereeing a lot more to try and keep the mess to a minimum.

  We used three different colors with three different cars. I just randomly chose 3 cars that I thought would be relatively easy to clean up. This little yellow tractor had a fun little tread on it that Logan liked. Choosing cars with different tread on their wheels would be a fun idea to try with this activity.