Um, hi.
I know, I know. I said I would write. I said I would write EVERY day. And I intended to do that. And then, well. You see, I got BUSY. And I bet you can hardly imagine that, as a mother of now nearly 7 month old twins and a 2 1/2 year old, I might be busy. But I was.
Sorry for neglecting you, my precious blog. Sorry for abandoning you, my handful of faithful readers! I am back. And that’s the thing about journeys right? You may get off course, but it takes just one step on the old path to get back on it again. So. Here I am.
And never to fear. I may have been too busy to write (and boy do I have the list of excuses, but I’ll spare you), but not too busy to be keeping my children busy!
To fill you in on the past almost 2 months, I’ll just do a sneak peek here. Then, as I have time, I will update these sneak peeks with posts and tutorials. But I will simply move forward as I do that, so as not to create an even FURTHER backlog as I try to catch up.
So, since we last spoke. Here is what we have been up to.
We….
Wrote our own songs & lyrics
Went on quite a few road trips to Michigan and Minnesota
Got to ride on Grandpa's tractor
Got to see our G.G. when she came to visit
Made a fort out of blankets in the living room
Painted picture frames for all our grandpas
...and for Daddy
Painted a t-shirt for our cousin, Ethan, because it was his first birthday
Made the wrapping paper for Ethan's present
Celebrated Father's Day
Learned to use a train whistle
Went to a BBQ at Uncle Chris' and made new friends
Went out for ice cream
Flew remote control toys with Daddy (this is a helicopter)
Painted the letter D
Made a Chinese "Dragon Kite"
Made thumbprint art
Killed time at the Dr.'s office by practicing shape recognition
Made an entire orchestra's worth of paper plate and cardboard instruments, like this Paper Plate Violin
and this Paper Towel Tube Flute
and these Paper Plate Cymbals
and finally, a cardboard box "Color Piano" (I think my kid is going to be a musician one day)
Had to go in the basement and hang out because of tornado sirens
Made thunder noises with a big sheet of paper and talked about weather (so it's not so scary next time there is a big storm)
Did 4th of July themed activities like hand print fireworks with Mommy
and lit up "snakes" with Daddy (insert Mommy "eyeroll" here)
Got our first set of golf clubs at Grandma's house in Minnesota
Went to the splash park (and the beach, and played in our sprinkler, and played in our kiddie pool)
Started solids
Found our feet
Went to Aunt Ciana's graduation party in Michigan
Made an awesome race car out of a big, cardboard box
Played "house" and "restaurant" and "this is where the puppy lives" with a big, cardboard box
Painted whatever we wanted with brushes
Made scribble drawings
Played with Easter Eggs (again)
Pretended to be a puppy (a lot).
Decided that THIS is how you play with a bouncy seat (and there's no stopping us)
Started trying to CRAWL (Mommy says, "AHHHH!")
Played with textures like crinkly newspaper
Made an elevator on our living room wall
Painted with noodles. How silly!
Decided we should do things, "All by ourselves"...like put on our sunglasses.
We went to the park, and on playdates. We pretended to be puppies and frogs. We developed an imaginary tiger as a friend.We colored and painted and cooked and made things…like I said…we were BUSY.
And there you have it. Whew!
(please check back for individual posts on these projects as I get time to update them. I will link the posts to the pictures.)
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