Thankful Thursday

Ok, lets try this again!! I AM going to get back on track, I won't give up!! If anyone is still reading, thanks for sticking with me lol!

I am once again SO thankful for all this beautiful, unseasonably warm weather we have been having. Today it got into the 80's!! In APRIL! Wow! Little Jimmy and I have been playing outside every day this week I think.

I am also SUPER thankful for our new (to us) recliner. Jim's parents are moving into a smaller house and they gave us theirs. It is so nice and cushy....Luke approved of it right away. I know, I am one of THOSE people that lets their dogs on the furniture. I really try not to, but there is a certain hubby who does not enforce it on his end so its like fighting a losing battle. So he gets to be the one who brushes the dogs so they don't shed as much on my furniture!

Anyway, I am excited to have this recliner because I am getting to the point in my pregnancy where it is becoming uncomfortable to sleep. I am a back and tummy sleeper so sleeping on my side starts getting old after a while. That and my hips don't appreciate it much. So I am hoping that I will maybe be able to sleep on the recliner if it gets really bad, I at least have the option this time around. I really wished we had one last time!

D is for Duck

I came up with this all by myself!! I kept seeing the D is for Dinosaur projects, but Jimmy loves ducks right now so I wanted to make a duck with him. I am sure someone else has done this before, but I didn't even search for one and was proud of myself for thinking of it =)

Materials:

• Yellow Foam sheet or construction paper
• Orange Foam sheet or construction paper
• Scissors
• Googly eye
• Glue

How to make the Letter "D" Duck

1. I outlined a capital D onto a sheet of yellow 5x7 foam - I just used the scissors to make an impression and then cut it out. You could also trace a letter D onto the foam or paper with a pen.
2. I used the extra foam from the inside part of the D for the duck's head. I just free handed a head shape and cut it out. I also free handed a beak and 2 feet on a piece of orange foam and cut them out.
3. Glue the head, beak and feet onto the D as in the picture. 
4. Add the googly eye and voila! A cute letter D Duck!

Tot School - Letter "C"

 

Jimmy is 26 months old

I am super late getting this posted!! We had an appraisal done today so I have been cleaning the house like crazy! We are trying to get refinanced...so anyway...we didn't do as much as I had wanted last week, but here are some highlights of what we DID get accomplished.

Letter "C" Crab from Totally Tots, a really cute craft! Jimmy loves his little crab. We have kind of had a thing for red crabs since he was a baby and his favorite button on his LeapFrog mirror was the "red crab."

We reviewed the letter C on Starfall.com. Jimmy got to play with the barn Cats a lot, he really enjoyed that. =)

 We Colored Easter eggs with some friends. THAT was fun, the kids just went crazy and were dunking the eggs in dye left and right. My awesome friend Katie is cool like that. She just put down some plastic and the kids went to town. I was the "protective" mom, trying to keep Jimmy from making TOO big of a mess....I guess I am kind of a neat freak, though you wouldn't really know it from seeing my house!

 (gee, I wonder who's child put all those eggs into one cup? Not Jimmy, never MY child! lol)

We also colored eggs at home, just mommy, daddy and Jimmy. Yes, mommy took over and didn't let Jimmy get too messy like with his friends! But I didn't have any plastic to put down (wait, I think I do have a drop cloth, doh!) ah well. But he did get to help and then put stickers on the eggs when they were dry! We had fun.

This isn't really anything letter "C" related, but Jimmy got to play with play dough for the first time this week. He really enjoyed it. Again, I was trying to keep everything neat and tidy (I know, I have a TODDLER, good luck to me right?? lol) and I tried to show him how NOT to mix the colors, we didn't want brown play dough! He actually did pretty well. And he only tried to eat it once I think... ;-)

 Well, that's about it. I finally got new ink for my printer so hopefully I can get some fun activities that I have been seeing printed out for Jimmy. I know he will love doing them! See you next week (in just a couple days I guess!).

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Thankful Thursday

Its been way too long since I did a Thankful Thursday post so here we go!

I am Thankful for the awesome weather we are having!!! Oh praise the Lord, it just makes me feel SO much better! I have been in the worst funk since our dog Duke died and then winter was just horrible for me. I have not had it diagnosed or anything, but I am pretty sure I suffer from that Seasonal Affective Disorder. That or I just really get the winter blues, I never feel like doing much of anything and don't have any energy. It really stinks. I need my sunlight!! And now I have it, yay! It got up into the 70's yesterday and is supposed to reach close to 80 today!! And tomorrow...oh, its supposed to get into the 80's, I can't believe it!!

And with this nice, lovely weather comes something else I am very thankful for...my spring flowers, trees and bushes are starting to sprout and bud! The birds are singing, the robins are hopping around looking for worms, the sun is shining and the horses and animals are frolicking. Oh spring, how I love thee!