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Friday, October 7, 2011

Flutter By Friday 10-7: Come Link-up!!

Welcome to this week’s Flutter By Friday blog hop!
The reason:
For readers to find other neat blogs to read and follow.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

3 in 30: October: Week 1 Update

The first week of October went very well!

Here's how we did with each of this month's goals:
1. Morning- Mornings have gone fairly well. I haven't gotten up by 7:00 every morning but if I wasn't up by 7:00, I was up by 7:15/7:20.

2. Middle of the day- I can still work on this one. We made it outside more than normal but not everyday.

3. Bedtime- This one has been better than a success! Every day we did great with the unplugged time and both kids were in bed by 9:00...that's half an hour earlier than I had planned for Maddy! It's working so I'm keeping it like that! As much as I love the kids, I am enjoying the kid free time each night.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Project 52: Week 40

We've been preparing the kids for the idea of a new little baby brother or sister pretty much since the beginning of my pregnancy. Thanks to a great idea from a friend, they are already playing with Jellybean. Around this time, they say a baby can start seeing light. So, Sean and Maddy have started using their flash lights on my belly to see if Jellybean can see it. Sean is so cute "Baby, can you see it? Wake up baby!" He also likes kissing my belly and talking to Jellybean. Then yesterday, he had his head on my belly and was singing to Jellybean when he got a big kick in the head. He jumped up pretty fast and his face was priceless!

Monday, October 3, 2011

Weekend Recipe: French Toast Bites

A day late because of computer problems but better late than never! Yesterday morning we had French Toast Bites for breakfast. Yum!! My kids are not big breakfast eaters but they scarfed this down! We made a little mistake and didn't let the bread go stale first. This made the bread more soggy than it should have been but didn't effect the taste. The recipe can be found here.

The ingredients:

Sugar
Cinnamon
Eggs
Buttermilk (We made buttermilk with almond milk and vinegar.)
Milk (We used almond milk)
Vanilla extract
Salt
French bread
Butter
And of course real maple syrup

Inspired by this pin.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

School Days: Dinosaur Ice Dig

This week Sean decided he wanted to learn about dinosaurs so that's what we started on. We didn't do nearly as much as I thought we would because Sean's ER trip and my ultrasound. I have a list of activities for next week to continue this lesson. This post will be about one of the activities that we did get to this week: the dinosaur ice dig! This activity was inspired by this pin/this blog post. I should have done what they did and used paper cups because it would have been easier to get the ice out. The kids had a blast anyways! I used the plastic dinosaurs the kids have gotten at the doctor's office and froze them in plastic cups. These dinosaurs float so I had to put the tops on the cups for this to work. We enjoyed this project so much that I didn't realize that I wasn't getting good pictures. If you look past the blurriness, you'll get the idea and see how much fun they had.

Both kids got a set of tools:
Spoon, fork, water (room temp and hot), medicine dropper and salt.

3in30: October

September was a good month so I'm looking forward to trying this again this month! I think I'm going to work on routines this month.

This month's goals are:
1. Morning- I want to work on my sleep and I think becoming consistent with a wake up time will help. So, I will get up by 7:00 every morning...7 days a week.

2. Middle of the day- I find myself making excuses about getting the kids outside...heat, rain, bugs.. We all need the outside time so we will get outside everyday even if it's just for a short time while covered in bug spray, holding umbrellas and wearing rain boots.

3. Bedtime- We're going to get into a definite evening routine. Part of this will be having unplugged time...no tv, no computer, no cell phones. Sean has a bedtime but it's kind of lax. Maddy does not. Everyone will be home by 8:30. That's when our unplugged time will start and it will continue until the kids are in bed. Sean will be in bed at 9:00, Maddy at 9:30 (with the goal of moving it back to 9:00).

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