Isla's 100 day school project

I must say I had a proud parent moment on Tuesday when I dropped Isla off at school. Her project was one of two hanging on the door to enter the preschool. A while ago her preschool had a 100 days of school celebration and the kids were to make/bring something to show the class that symbolized 100. Now in the letter that was sent home about the celebration it said you could bring 100 M&M's or a snack that equaled 100 etc. I considered those options and decided that this was a project for Isla, not me :) What would she really learn if I made a snack or counted out 100 pieces of candy for her to take. And even if she helped count out the candy, she would be more focused on eating the candy than the purpose of the project. SO I bought some supplies to make a project and we worked on it for two days! Now was she overly excited about it? Maybe not but by the end she was proud of it and that's what mattered.

The project she completed was gluing on 100 pom pom balls to the signs that said 100

She counted them out mostly by herself. I did guide her into counting them out into piles of 25

And there it is hanging on the door with the other really cool project that was a monster with 100 eyes! 

She did come home with a big bag of candy so she got to enjoy that part of the celebration too :) 

The Finished Project

We have officially completed the most awesome baseball bedroom a little boy could ask for! Well at least we think so :) Here are some pictures of the room. Enjoy!

The picture hanging to the right of the window hung in Josh's room when he was little

This is mainly a picture of Aiden's bedding which is reversible. On the other side it is white with baseball bats and balls. 

It's impossible to fine strictly baseball crib bedding so this is a set I found on Target(online) and it's just very simple stripes and I think it works well with everything. It came with a race car sheet but my mom had bought a plain navy blue sheet that I used instead.  

Most of the design/projects were pinterest inspired. Josh claims he hates pinterest but look how awesome everything turned out! He successfully cut that baseball bat in half and then attached the hooks, his dad hand-painted the baseball wall with the help of a stencil and Josh painted the scoreboard on the wall. 

There is a lot of thought and hard work put into this room and we just hope the boys will love it :)

A weekend at home

This weekend we spent at home getting some things done around the house or as Josh calls it, the honey-do list. He had a couple items on that list for himself though too! The boys' room is all but finished. My goal was to have it completed by the end of March and today is April 1st and I'm waiting on my last shipment and should have everything completed and hung tonight! I will take pictures and hopefully share them in the next couple days. My mom took most of the day off on Friday and helped me get a ton of baby clothes washed and put away as well as sanitize and wash all of the bottles and put those away. These things are much more fun to do with someone else's help! She brought each of the kids a new outfit and outside toy and kites! We went outside to fly the kites but there wasn't much wind so the kids had to run the kites which resulted in what could have one us the big bucks on America's Funniest home videos I'm sure! Aiden was dragging his kite around, minding his own business and Isla was running hers to make it fly just above the ground. Isla ran around Aiden and down the hill and her kite wrapped his head at the perfect height and almost took him down! We laughed so hard! It was hilarious!

Saturday night, after a long day of chores, Josh set up the kid's tent for them to watch a movie and eat some popcorn. They loved it!

I also became a barber over the week/weekend. I cut both Aiden and Josh's hair and it doesn't look bad! I did get a little close to Aiden's head in a couple spots but it will grow out ;) Hopefully before Easter lol!

Before: Look at this wild man!

After: So much better

We actually had some wind on Sunday so the kids really got to fly their kites. It went well for about 5 minutes before Aiden's got stuck in a tree and I believe we have officially lost Isla's but it was fun while it lasted.

Happy April Fool's Day!

Nicolle