Little Bo Peep

Went all out for the girls halloween costumes again this year. I was originally going to have them be a butterfly and a caterpillar but I couldn’t figure out how to do the caterpillar. Then I stumbled across this Little Bo Peep dress on Etsy and fell in love. It was selling for 300 so that was out of the question but after seeing it no other dress would do, so I did what I do best with my champagne taste on a beer budget and made my own.

I have to give my mom all the credit for sewing it together because that is not my strong thing but we spent so much time just getting the perfect fabric and embellishment's until it looked very similar to the original. The hat was the hardest because I couldn’t find one anywhere but on the day before halloween we made a floppy bonnet and put it over an old easter hat and I think it turned out really good!

The dress we copied……..

And our finished project…….

I forgot to mention we also had a disaster when it came to the shepards hook. I had ordered it on ebay about a month before we needed it and as it kept getting closer to halloween I got worried it wasnt going to show. Sure enough when I checked the sellers page it looked like they had skipped off with the money and closed down shop. I now had 2 days to get a new hook or else we would no have a very good little bo peep. Thank you 2 day air shipping from a costume store, you saved the day.

Spa Day

Brie needed her hair washed but didnt want to take a bath so I said we could wash it in the sink, So we set it all up for her to lay on and she asks if she can have cucumbers on her eyes too. So then we figured we might as well go all out and put on the robe and do a face mask too. She didnt like the mask though so we had to take it right off. Girly girls I have!

Butterfly

We did one of those butterfly kits this spring where you order the caterpillars and then watch them turn into butterflies All five survived and when it got nice and sunny this week we let them go. When Brie opened upt he thing 2 flew away right away but two of them were still just hanging out so they actually let her pick them up and hold them before they flew away.

Swimming Lessons

Bries first class of swimming lessons ended yesterday and so for the last day we were allowed to go in and take pictures finally! Her class had four kids in it and she made friends with one little boy, Quin. She seems to love her lessons and asks every day if its swimming day so we signed her up for the next level, she is now a Pollywog 2! Some of the things they practiced in this class was jumping off the side and going under water, kicking on their front and backs, going under water and getting toys off the bottom of the pool, and floating on their backs. She also really liked her teacher, even though she never learned her name lol. She drew her a picture and gave it to her at the end of the class and it said "To Swimming Teacher From Brie" Im glad she had so much fun and wants to continue on.

Dirt Cups for Earth Day!

There is this great holiday at the end of April that a lot of people forget about, Earth Day! and every year for earth day we make dirt cups! So if you want to do something a little special with your kids here is the recipe

One box Jell O chocolate pudding
3 cups Milk
12 oz cool whip topping
Some oreo cookies
Gummy worms or bugs

crush up the Oreo cookies and layer them on the bottom of a clear cup
throw in some gummy worms
Mix together pudding and cool whip and cover the dirt and worms
sprinkle a little more dirt on top of the mud and top with an extra worm
Enjoy!

Oh the differnce a week can make

Titanic came out in 1997, ten years before Brie was born. But the other day when we were playing airplane and I lifted her on my feelm she threw her arms out and yelled "Im the King of the World"

How Do You Know That......

Every day brie tells me things that just blow my mind, and I have to ask her how she knows these things. Kids are so amazing the things they soak up and remember, but dont worry these are all G rated comments. Thank god she has yet to repeat or bring up any bad things she has heard or seen

Scene: Just driving home silent
Brie: "mommy did you know when you mix blue and red it makes purple"

Scene: Watching Land Before Time together and as far as I know I have never taught her or talked about names of dinosaurs
Kacy: "Brie do you know what kind of dinosaur sharp tooth is?" ( we are both sitting there thinking she will have no idea)
Brie: "umm umm he is a T-Rex"
Us: Silent, look at each other, more silent " how did you know that"
Brie: "well he looks the same as the one on that movie w the boys and that was a t-rex" (i figured out she was talking about meet the robinsons"

Scene: Brie comes running into the bathroom where I am all excited after watching some cartoons
Brie: " mommy I just saw this stuff on tv that will make your stretch marks go away!"
All I can do is laugh because she even paused it so I could check it out.

Rockstar

Gigi found my ipod after I got back from a run and it just blew me away that she knew to put the headphones in her ears and rock out. Babies are so observant its amazing what they learn from just watching you. of course big sis is an expert at the ipod already so she wanted to jam too and switch songs. its my running playlist so i think they are listening to G6 and I bet I bust lol.

Brie+My phone=these pics

Brie loves using my phone to take pictures and the other day I downloaded everything off my phone to see what kind of things we would got. There was almost 200 pics of all sorts of thing but most of her sister doing things. She has cought gigi climbing, trying to touch the computer which is a no no, and my personal favorite gigi picking her nose with her thumb. There were also a lot of naked bum shots but I deleted those ones :) Thank you PI Brie for giving me a good laugh

Bunkbeds

brie really wants a bunkbed, but I wasnt sure they were quite ready for them. So they made there own out of the table. of course they are already fighting over who gets the top bunk!

The Fantastic 5

Last year for kacy's moms birthday we got her frames pics of all her grandkids and then each year we get updated pics of all of them and replace them in the frames. Her birthday was on wednesday so now I can reveal how all the pics turned out :)