tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89994180419972962222024-03-13T23:33:31.131-07:00Panda and GiraffeLaurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-6990634212673654462016-02-29T13:34:00.002-08:002016-02-29T13:34:53.526-08:00Free<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello, I'm Laura and I like to blog for a few weeks then stop for a few months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah. I had all the greatest intentions to stay on top of posting weekly but, life gets in the way and I make a priority list. This blog is usually the last thing on the list. Sadly enough, I want to blog so that my kids can someday read these...it's like a fun scrapbook that I don't have to worry about misplacing or losing...which would totally happen. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always see those parents that make these amazing keepsakes for their kids, like videos and scrapbooks or notebooks full of their quotes or little memories! I love that!! I always beat myself up about how I never started anything like that when Cody was little or even now as Eisley came along. But, that's why I always try to come back to this blog. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe just maybe this could be a constant. Sadly, that's never been the case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know if it's lack of time management</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or just feeling self conscience about what I write not being good enough. Good enough for who you ask?? Well, I don't know. I figure if it's up, might as well make it entertaining enough for everyone else to read too right? But really, I write to those of you who can relate. Of course I want to inspire people with little things here and there, but mostly I seek motivation and advice from those who have been there, done that. Although I do have people to connect with about being a mom, wife, homeschooling</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, working mom...etc. Somehow the combining of all those is when there are less to connect with. So that leaves me asking God...."Do you have a Pinterest board?" Could you imagine if he did!! Oh man, that thing would be overflowing with useful tips and tricks and would have the best graphic quotes and verses!! haha!! I wonder if he'd repin all those "All I need today is a little bit of coffee and a whole lot of Jesus" signs and shirts, Hahaha. Now I've distracted myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Honestly, life is in a constant state of change and there are seasons that I feel I've done it again. I've picked the wrong path again. I've failed. For some reason, those lies tend to show up when there is an opportunity for growth. I've been through it enough to see the pattern now. But, it's still a struggle. What a crazy lie though. I think it comes from the very early years of learning what it meant to believe in Jesus. Instead of focusing on a relationship, it was all about right and wrong. Which makes sense when you learn about Jesus from being so little. I find that to be what I teach my kids about. "Are we loving like Jesus when we hit?" Hitting=Wrong ...so I can see where if not elaborated on it can be a very black and white way of thinking...atleast that's what I take from my upbringing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents were amazing, but my own interpretation of believing was a lot of right and wrong choices. Fast foward to getting married and having kids and here we are. A better understanding of Grace. Let me tell you, when I heard songs about being free, I couldn't tell you what the first thing about what being free felt like. I knew I believed in Jesus and I knew I'd be with him in heaven when the time came and till then I would serve him because that's what you do. But Grace....I didn't know I needed it, better yet, I didn't know he gave it so freely. I didn't have the slightest clue of how deeply my creator loved me. That, that relationship is what I want my kids to experience now...not years down the road, not after their kids are grown...but now! When I looked at my creator as much more than just my provider, my strength, my savior, I started to see a father. I know.....how weird to know Jesus for all my life but not see him as my father! To tell you the truth, I was blessed with a pretty amazing earthly one and just didn't see how Jesus could love me more. But he does! He sees me for who I am when no one else is around! He knows what I was created for and knows my heart better than anyone else on this planet. He will love me, no matter what path I choose and that truly made me free. That song "Good, Good Father" totally gets my every time. It's such a crazy feeling to know that someone loves you that much, more than the greatest love you have ever felt..<b>BUT HE DOES</b>!! You don't have to do a SINGLE thing for him to love you that way! <b>HE JUST DOES</b>!! You'll never earn it or deserve it (Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.) <b>HE JUST LOVES YOU</b>!!! Yup <b>YOU</b> the one who keeps messing up, the one who feels like there's no hope, the one who just can't love themselves. <b>YOU</b>! You are worth more than rubies (Proverbs 3:15)!! So if you read this whole thing *High Five* know that you are loved. Even if you start blogs and stop updating...even if you decided to give the kids "Nature Class" (Playing outside) for school on days you just can't think straight and even if you jump into things with all your heart and have to jump out because you were in over your head. God is not disappointed, he loves you, <b>HE JUST DOES</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-24979207093181846012015-12-28T22:14:00.001-08:002015-12-28T22:20:04.331-08:00Back into Action<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Break has come and gone. Our decision to take a week off early and start school this week was a really bad choice. Our friends are still on vacay and we are back to the daily grind. Didn't think this one through I guess. Oh well. If we really wanted to, we could totally take another week off, but I figure since we don't have plans for New Years, why not get back to the regularly scheduled program! I actually miss our routine. I'm also over all the screen time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Day was really nice. We invited my in laws, my parents, my brother and his fiance over. I made a full breakfast with fresh waffles, country potatoes, bacon and eggs! Nom Nom! We ate then unwrapped presents. I really wish we had added some singing. I'm a sucker for singing of any kind. I love how it brings joy and happiness! And since we ended up canceling the caroling event I planned for our friends, I was really craving some carols. But oh well. Next year, it's happening!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh the joys of being a parent on Christmas Day! Our original plan was 1 gift per child, I'm not big on the whole giving gifts thing. I would much rather make memories than just buy toys and stuff they'll be bored of in a few months, but my husband LOVES gifting! So of course he broke the 1 gift rule...not just broke, destroyed! I didn't mind, but it was pretty hilarious to watch these kids open presents. As usual, my first born had the best reactions ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean come on! Look at that face!! Pure delight! I LOVE IT!! He literally did this every time, no matter how big or small the gift! He wears his gratitude on his face so amazingly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watching him unwrap presents is really awesome, so I can't say I didn't love that he had more than 1. These kids are so blessed to have so much family that loves them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, we come to my second born. This was a whole different story! This year has been such an exciting time for her. She totally understands what this season holds (Christmas, Santa, Baby Jesus and Snow!) and she has been singing non-stop for weeks now. I love her Christmas spirit! So of course I was so excited to see her open her gifts and capture it for years to come....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was it...this was all she gave me. EVERYTIME! At one point I was starting to question if any of these things were even something she wanted! The best part came when my brother followed through on his tradition to wrap something completely random for the kids as a joke. This was Eisley's first time to experience this and well.....this was her reaction...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Is this a joke...Which one of you did this?!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was laughing way too hard to explain it was a joke! But oh man, it looks like we won't be giving her anymore gag gifts! Geez!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even after all was said and done and they started to play with all their new toys for the day...this was still her face..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just not impressed with anything! I'll blame it on the sleep deprivation and sugar overload.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> She does love her new Lego set though, I actually love it more!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I still have this kid who is stoked and so excited about all his new fun stuff! I love how different they are and it really does bring me so much joy to see them grow and develop these unique personalities! They keep life interesting!</span></div>
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Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-79562110929920549742015-12-10T18:58:00.000-08:002015-12-10T18:58:21.781-08:00Christmas Break is HERE!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We started our break this week a little. Since we are coming to the middle of the school year, Cody is finishing off some of his subjects like Science, English and Reading! WOO!!! I find it hilarious that he took it upon himself to continue working more pages than required per day so that he could be finished! I love that he's motivated enough to do that, because once he's done with those, we move onto Geography, Spanish and more Art! The curriculum for these subjects is created by me! Although I love our curriculum that we get from <a href="http://www.homeschools.org/" target="_blank">Christian Liberty Academy</a>. It's a lot of book work and the way I teach is totally hands on. I'm a visual learner so I love being able to explore in that way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of Curriculum! I also write Sunday School Curriculum and if you are a Sunday school teacher or even Nursery through Elementary teacher these might be helpful to browse through! I will be linking those in a different post called "Confessions of Children's Ministry" Where I will not only be sharing curriculum, but tips for working in children's ministry as well! I mean, if I'm there every Sunday I should have some tips right?! YES, the answer is YES! I'll admit I don't have all the answers, but over the years of working in children's ministry, I've definitely picked up some useful information!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So as you may remember, I created an amazing little advent calendar and was so jazzed about how we're gonna totally stay on top of it this year...well, sad to say, we've already fallen off the wagon! I completely lost track of things because of our break from school and starting my new job! But we plan to do our best to make up for it and do as many as we can from here! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You guys this is what we've done so far...so sad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's even worse, is that we have this on the fridge and if we miss something Cody immediately points it out! Which I reply, we'll do it tomorrow...we can all see that's not happening! But hopefully we can do a few that we missed over the weekend! We'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This house was much more successful than any other in the past! Although we did have the roof slide off once but I think we didn't allow the proper time for it to set so that's our bad on faulty craftsmanship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So glad we got to do this activity with our friends Tallou and Zebb. With our busy schedules, we don't get to see each other very much, but it's always a treat to have them over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cody wasn't as amused with this so Eisley took over and I love her imagination! We cut bear faces out of fondant and she wanted them everywhere! She said it was a bear house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We got out some pom poms and googly eyes as well, things got a little crazy! I mean it's not edible anyways, so why not go to town! I love the eye balls in the snow! #thehousehaseyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also love the bear buried in the snow! The amount of frosting used was insane! Although at one point I suggested we cover it in frosting like it was in a snow storm, but that idea was thrown out by Buddy who is a Gingerbread Specialist of sorts or so he thought, since he just hummed and haahhed at us as we put things that didn't belong on a traditional gingerbread house everywhere! haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THIS GIRL!!! I don't know how, but this girl has my sense of humor to a tee! I literally laugh at my own jokes and think I'm hilarious and she is exactly the same way! It's my favorite thing ever! I love hearing her say crazy things or snap back witty comments then chuckle to herself! I'm so caught off guard by it that I'll literally do a spit take! I love her to pieces! She brings so much joy to our lives with her sassy and brilliant sense of humor, along with her loving side. She can just melt your heart! So looking forward to watching her grow up because she is set on being 16! She tells us that constantly "Mom, I want to be 16!". I can't wait honestly. She's gonna be a riot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The holidays are here and this means I'm extremely distracted with shiny things and food! School?! Who needs school for 2 months, right?! Just kidding! (Maybe not though) Haha! I just really love this time of year! We spend alot more time together because we stop all sports and evening activities for the months of November and December and boy does it make a difference! We turn our focus to having others over for dinner and serving the community! I LOVE doing this as a family, I hope it continues through the years as the kids get older! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yup! That turkey right there, I made that!! This was my first year to host a "Traditional" Thanksgiving at my house! I have hosted Thanksgiving almost every year for my side of the family, but I grew up eating Tamales and Mexican food for Thanksgiving. So that was what continued for many years after I got married. My family is not huge fans of turkey so it wasn't a big deal if we missed out on it. Over the years it just didn't feel like Thanksgiving to me to not have the turkey, so we made the decision to go for it. Do the WHOLE dinner, sides and all! Boy did I under estimate how long I would be in the kitchen!! WHO DOES THIS!! Although my back and feet hurt from the constant bending, finding, lifting and walking back and forth (I'm getting so old!) I had the BEST time cooking. The kids played nicely all day and Buddy was by my side the whole time! My absolute favorite! He and I have not been in the kitchen together since our dating days, it's just more practical for someone to be with the children making sure they don't kill each other! haha. I sure do miss it, and hope we can make this a regular thing again! (Not Thanksgiving Dinner) but cooking together! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a very blessed evening, I was glad I was able to share it with My in laws and my parents!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2 most important women in our lives! The Grandmas! I can't say how grateful I am for all these two women have done! One raised me and the other raised the love of my life! Both have amazing testimonies of following after God with all their hearts! Buddy and I wouldn't be who we are without the amazing influence of these strong, beautiful, smart, loving women!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Eisley and some of my favorite men! So happy and grateful that the 2 most important men in our lives can be with us. They have both fought threw a lot and it makes me not take their presence here for granted. I'm so overjoyed to have this family in my life. God is so good and his favor on our lives is so apparent in everything, I get so overwhelmed just thinking about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year we also decided to do our own advent calendar! Every year we try to follow along with different pre-made plans like "<a href="http://truthinthetinsel.com/" target="_blank">Truth in the Tinsel</a>" or "<a href="http://thechristmasangel.com/" target="_blank">The Christmas Angel</a>" which have been awesome! But the last 2 weeks always seem to dwindle and we stop doing it. This could be my motivation more than anything, but we decided this year, why not take ideas from all the advent activities we've done in the past and choose our favorites?! And so the Robinson Advent Calendar was born! I love it! These were some of the things the kids have loved doing and still talk about regularly. I'm so excited for them to see this tonight! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Do you want one of your own? Message me!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week was a short school week. We decided to take Wed-Fri off so we only did school for 2 days and Eisley just got the week off. She didn't mind as long as we did some sort of craft and sang songs. Haha, that's probably the only part of school she actually likes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week was really unplanned. I dropped the ball. It was my dad's birthday so we spent 1 day with him celebrating and Dad (Buddy) was also home for 3 out of the 5 days so that also threw us off. All in all, we had a good week and some things were learned! haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One thing the kids would say was the highlight of this week was watching videos about a little girl's life in Japan! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First off she's adorable!! Second off these are totally amazing to watch, I had no idea things were so different in Japan. It was so fascinating and entertaining to watch. Cody's favorite video was watching her talk about the candy they have in Japan and that she gets to read about one of his favorite shows for homework!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our video list we also had "How Jelly Beans are made" and we learned about bio-luminescence in the form of glowing jellyfish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also had a good amount of library books about Japan and their traditions and customs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Bible we talked and read about Joseph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was huge for Eisley! She was attempting to read!! All thanks to Dad who has a different style of teaching and totally thought to try this with her!! I didn't think she was ready and haven't even tried (my bad) but, I just didn't want to push her based on when Cody started reading. Now when I say read, I really mean memorizing the book and pointing at the words. This is a stepping stone and I love that she was even interested!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finding letter J! Again, I totally gave up on making her find the letters and just let her go to town with the paint dot thing, but daddy some how made it happen! I wish he was here with us everyday!! Gosh that would be a dream!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some kind of a "shape shifting ninja star" is what Cody described</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad had to jump in because although it was on the list of easy things for kids...it was not easy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can find this list <a href="http://www.easypeasyandfun.com/easy-origami-for-kids/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The one thing the kids did love was the bunny that could also be pikachu! It was super fun to make and really simple!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rhyming words bingo! This was pretty funny to do with Eisley, she was really confused as to why the word we had to look for was different than the word/picture on the card. But near the end she started to understand, still didn't like it, but understood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having dad home doing school with us was such a fun gift. He was even able to come to co-op with us and help in each of the kids classes! The kids were so excited to share this with him! I can't wait for him to have a full week home in December! </span></div>
Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-34940895683227374742015-11-12T18:36:00.000-08:002015-11-12T18:36:10.944-08:00Week 9: I is for I need a vacation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just realized the other night that my husband and I haven't had a date night since Sept. 12th!! What is wrong with us!! We do this all the time, we push back date nights because other things come up or we don't want to inconvenience our babysitter, but then weeks go by...then months. At this time we find ourselves completely exhausted and in need of a break and in desperate need of re-connection! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I feel like life becomes such a blur and we get caught up in our routine that we completely forget about ourselves (Speaking for my husband and I). Well forgetting isn't the only problem, we also tend to make excuses about what to do on these "Date Nights". We usually just go out to eat, But we've been doing really well on cutting back since we are trying to eat healthier. Also the last 2 we had, we went to concerts! This was huge for us because this is what we spent our entire dating life doing. Every weekend! Although those are amazingly fun, they're pricey too and we've become homebodies over the years. So what's left??!! Movies...don't even get me started!! My husband LOVES movies...I like the popcorn and nachos. Honestly I'd rather sit on my couch and watch a movie instead of the theater, but that's not why I throw that idea out completely! The seats at the newer theaters we go to have recliners! Oh fun, so comfortable, so much like home right! Right!! And what does my husband do at home during movies....he FALLS ASLEEP! Who wants to pay $14-$20 bucks to watch a movie alone, next to someone who is snoring!! haha! But I digress... We don't have too many other options. Until I came across <a href="http://amomwithalessonplan.com/date-night-ideas/" target="_blank">THIS</a> on pinterest! <b>50 Fun Date Night Ideas for at home</b>!! What!! This is like a bucket list of date ideas!! This is amazing!! And I plan to use this starting this Friday or Saturday!! I may share this on the blog, we'll see how successful it becomes! haha. The reason I love it, is because it's being intentional about the time we're spending together. Which is exactly what a date night should be!! Also this requires <b>No</b> babysitter, <b>No</b> reservation, <b>No</b> getting fancy (Unless you do the one date night where you get fancy) and <b>Not</b> alot of money!! <b>PERFECT</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One really fun thing I started doing this week is making a youtube playlist for each week. We try not to do tv through our school day, but during lunch or while I make dinner the kids really want to watch or listen to something. They usually ask for Pandora, especially the kids christmas music station. I enjoy it, but I start to get tired of the constant music on...usually around the 3rd time of hearing jingle bells! So I made this weeks youtube playlist with videos like, "How to make Ice Cream" (I found a tour of the Ben and Jerry's Factory!), "What is an insect?" and "How to build and igloo". Along with some random clips from Sesame Street talking about the letter I and other various letter I songs! The kids LOVED the tour video and the igloo video. It's awesome to be able to "visit" places virtually when we can't physically go on a field trip there! If you want links to the video just comment or message me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were fun, but doing the whole alphabet at once was a bit overwhelming for her. I seperated the pictures and letters, placed the letters in a pile. She would pick a letter and I told her what the letter was and the sound. If she didn't guess the picture, I would say "S is for snake!" She got about 75% of the way through the cards before she said, "I'm tired of doing this!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ice Cream Shape Cones! She loved this activity. She loves gluing and glitter so this was a perfect activity! Until she tipped both cups of sequins all over the floor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colors in Spanish! Eisley did a great job matching and saying the colors. We are still working on rolling our R's. This printable can be found <a href="http://www.thewiseowlfactory.com/archives/7259" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been trying to include music class into our weeks since Cody does Piano with dad. Eisley made these drums and was into them for all of 10 seconds. But we've been listening to songs and using our rhythm sticks to clap along and they've really enjoyed that! You can find some nice ones here: (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002F5BQG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0002F5BQG&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=4LDC4LJCJCDPKUHI" rel="nofollow">Natural Wood Claves</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0002F5BQG" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We bought ours at Ted Brown Music and it was a little cheaper. If you want links to the videos we used just message or comment...my comment section is lonely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week was <b>H</b>ectic! Not so much because major things happened, but in regular daily life. For some reason (getting over colds, teething, growth spurts?? Who knows) both kids were a little out of sorts and it was a struggle to do all of our regular activities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eisley has been struggling to find her groove with our homeschool schedule and last week she flat out refused school all together. I was able to convince her a few times to do her work boxes (which were pictured last week) But other than that, she was just not feeling it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although this can be frustrating, because I took the time to create and plan all this out and now it's gone to waste. I tend to look at the bigger picture (what's the problem?)...I didn't change the work, just the boxes they were in and that was super exciting for her...but it's almost like she was disappointed with what she was finding inside. So I looked through my plans and decided, how can I make this more simple, more colorful, more fun! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well it didn't take very long to realize, perhaps taking a more Montessori approach might be more her style and sure enough, we're already off to a much smoother start with school this week. The activities are a lot more simple and open ended and most are self guided and self correcting. She and Cody are so different and finding her learning style is still a learning process in and of itself. I just have to stay flexible and do what works and toss what doesn't. Now although I do use Montessori "inspired" activities, we don't use this method through all of her school schedule. We pick and choose from different methods and use what works. I've found that to be most successful for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now like I said, Eisley wasn't the only one having a tough time, Cody was having some struggles as well! Apparently in this struggle between my son and I, I had it all wrong! What I thought was disobedience from lack of structure or just being bored, was actually coming from feelings of not being able to lead. He is very strong willed and likes things done a certain way (He might get that from me), loves to problem solve and is great at encouraging so it makes sense that he has a great structure for leadership. Problem being...there can't be 2 leaders. Not at the same time at least. So I have changed a few things in our routine and have been letting him lead our morning circle time! He loves it. I plan to give him more opportunities to lead and make decisions, I just have to figure out how...(ideas welcome!) Having an 8 year old boy is all new to me and sometimes I feel crazy, thinking to myself, "Is he really saying/doing/acting like this? Sometimes I love God's sense of humor, other times I think "Did I really have to learn that lesson this way...there wasn't an easier way?!" But that's life. God is still good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning Workouts! Cody loves leading us in some simple workouts to start our day. They've also enjoyed when I use the blue tape on the floor for different physical challenges. We used the lines to see how tall everyone was, how far they could reach and how far they could jump! (P.S. don't mind cody's layering, he thinks it's hilarious to put on more clothes then he needs.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Building a house with blocks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorting 1s, 5s, 10s, and 20s!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Letter H, sticker find! I realize she has completely given up on the whole finding the letter. She just puts the stickers anywhere she pleases. haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking a brain break and trying some 1 player Blokus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pattern Block H!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ribbon Weaving!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorting Hot and Cold. This activity was very successful, although she can't read the words, she would guess from the picture and big bro would help her by reading the word. She did a great job!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Helado! (Ice Cream) We're trying to incorporate as much spanish into our days as possible. Some days I speak in spanish for most the day and love that they still understand alot of it. Especially Eisley. But I know that around 3 and 4 was when Cody started to lose that. So we're trying to make this a regular thing so they can keep it up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sand Writing! Eisley's new favorite activity! I made the orange sand with salt and orange food coloring. (It's a little rough on the fingers, so I don't plan on using that anymore). The pink sand I bought at Michael's! I found it (Not on sale) for $2.50 for 1.5 lbs! It comes in every color and is so fine, it's really soft on the skin! So I'm stocking up! Use a 40% off coupon and it's seriously such a good deal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a little glance at our morning circle time area. We sing songs about the days of the week, months of the year, the pledge of allegiance. We talk about the weather, the seasons and go over our bible verse of the week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape matching activity!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heart Craft, glue and tissue paper!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glass beads and alphabet dot sheets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our leapfrog fridge letters came back out after a year of not having batteries! Eisley loves it, and loves that she can hear the alphabet whenever she wants. As annoying as this thing is, it has really helped her with letter recognition!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape matching! I found these button shapes at Joann's but, the bag only contained these 6 shapes, if you want bigger and more variety, you can find a better option <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/lb-of-great-big-buttons-a2-57_8500.fltr?Ntt=buttons" target="_blank">HERE</a>. But these were $2.50 after a 40% coupon so, I bought them. The shapes can be found with the Letter of the Week Curriculum we use, <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter-of-the-week" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Color bounce! This activity was really simple. A ping pong ball and 4 boxes with a piece of colored foam sheet in them. I had her put the boxes where ever she wanted and had her try to throw the ball into the color I called out! She lost interest after all 4 colors were used and Cody took over, he started standing on chairs and figuring out what he could bounce the ball off of to land in the boxes. Turns out it was super fun for the 8 yr old!! haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paper clips and Magnet Strips! These were fun! I had everything for these already so that was awesome! Jumbo popsickle sticks, Adhesive magnet strips and paper clips. So I cut the magnet strips in half lengthwise but, the adhesive on the back of the magnets didn't stick at all. I ended up using the hot glue gun to make them stick. The hot glue was perfect, those magnets are stuck down and not going anywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talking about our organs with this My Body Puzzle (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ELWHUQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000ELWHUQ&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=GY7WKUDKFDX7SS4N" rel="nofollow">Boy 5-Layer Wooden Puzzle</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000ELWHUQ" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lock and Key activity! I thought this might be too hard for her, but she totally got it and loved it! These locks can be found at the Dollar Tree!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is getting so good at this nut and bolts activity, I'm trying to think of a few different ways to make it a little more of a challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playing with our Locktagons (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0171GNAZM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0171GNAZM&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=OJGQ4DIMLQKD7DWK" rel="nofollow">Locktagons Building Set</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0171GNAZM" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to post our Halloween pictures from this year! I had grand plans for our family costume and was really excited about making them(we were going to be We Bare Bears), but as usual time got away from me and I didn't make them. So we used these costumes that we bought last year the day after Halloween!! You can't beat $2 a piece!! But I'm really glad I let the costume making slide this year because the weather was horrible and we decided to stay inside and didn't end up trick or treating after all. We may have also stumbled upon a fun new family tradition! We felt bad about not getting to go to any activities (because most were outdoors) so we made little treat bags for the kids with small toys and crafts and a candy or two. Then we had a movie night. I can't tell you how much the kids said "This is way better than trick or treating!" I was so surprised! Honestly it's not a huge lifestyle change I was trying to make, (but less candy would be amazing, thank you!) our kids usually get paid for the candy then we toss it. So I didn't even think this would be a fun option for them! Turns out, they asked to do this again next year!! WHAT!! Of course! Yes!! Love when things like this happen!</span></div>
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Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-86208110099614766852015-10-30T09:36:00.000-07:002015-10-30T09:36:39.874-07:00Week 7: G is for Gloomy<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gotta love the pacific northwest and how it keeps it's trees so green! Rain and lots of it. We had a ton all week. I don't mind it, I love how it makes everything smell! The kids on the other hand, they get pretty bummed when everything outside and at the park is all drenched. Cody is ok playing soccer in the rain, but tell him to grab monkey bars that are wet and he's done! haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>G is for Gorilla, Garden, Green, Gum & God</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This girl is getting so good at listening to words and finding the sound of her "Letter of the Week". I usually only focus on 1 word so as not to overwhelm her, but she will say words I didn't even think of! I said "G is for...." expecting to hear gorilla (Which she says so adorably!) But instead heard Ghost, Garden, Gum and God! Completely unprompted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magnets, Magnets and More Magnets. Turns out magnets were a huge hit this week! I didn't think they would last more than 10 minutes like most every other activity does, but boy was I wrong!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cody brought home a tube of oil and steel wool from co-op, where they were learning about magnets. This is what gave me the idea to give them some magnets to play with. We bought a magnet set awhile back <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ID1E4U/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000ID1E4U&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=5327Q37UNIK3EU3L" rel="nofollow">Magnet Set by toysmith</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000ID1E4U" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These aren't extremely strong but work for picking up small objects. I happened to have a heavy duty magnet that worked really nicely for picking up bigger items and moving objects around!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They loved picking up the pipe cleaner pieces. I was so glad Eisley was able to do it as well! They both pulled the pieces right out of the container! The possibilities are endless, you can have them build sculptures, use string to fish for paper clips or pipe cleaners, explore the house to find the things that are metal. Trust me, I didn't think my kids would be playing for as long as they did. It was over 2 hours and the conversations and free play ideas were endless!! Needless to say, we're going to find more magnets and do a unit on them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The idea for these was to match the color of the airplanes to the sticks, but she decided to make shapes out of the sticks instead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Eisley is done being gently guided, she's done and there is no winning her back...unless you have play-dough! Play-dough doesn't come out often here in the playroom (because this is the only room with carpet) but, I made an exception and it paid off, not to mention we found out that the recipe I use DOESN'T get stuck to the carpet!! Praise the Lord!! She had a grand time sticking the Halloween erasers into the play-dough! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preposition Cards! They can be found <a href="http://www.totschooling.net/2014/05/motor-skills-preposition-game.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. She loves that every week I bring a stuffed animal out for her to play this game with! I want to make more cards to go along with this, because I can not get enough of how much she cracks up when she moves her little friend around the room! I'll say "Put the gorilla behind me!" or "Put the gorilla under the table!" I don't know why but she giggles every time she puts him in the correct spot! I love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gumball match from our "<a href="http://store.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70_71" target="_blank">Letter of the Week</a>" curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This happened over the weekend. Ooooohhh..Aaaahhhh! haha. We bought work-boxes for Eisley because she was not liking her tot school trays anymore. She liked Cody's work-boxes and wanted to be just like big bro, of course. So I opted for the shorter version with more drawers so that we could add supplies to the top boxes since crayons, pencils and glue were always getting misplaced. So here is our current set up and I'm so in love with it!! They can work side by side if they'd like but Eisley still has her table and chairs so I usually suggest that. haha. I'll make a post later down the road about how I plan for and use our work-boxes. For now, that was the week! </span></div>
Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-61547956359834368582015-10-27T10:56:00.001-07:002015-10-27T14:18:53.462-07:00Week 6: F is for Family.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fall is such a family time season. We find ourselves cuddling on the couch alot more and doing more indoor activities. I always enjoy the extra time we get to spend altogether. Even if that means I'm covered in snot because that together-ness has resulted in germ sharing of colds the kids have been sharing back and forth! Either way, I'll take it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>F is for Fish</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Found these great cardboard lacing boards at Dollar Tree! Love when I go in there for 1 thing and end up finding other little surprises! She's not in love with this lacing but that's only because it's a challenge, so I'm hoping the practice will help her enjoy it a little more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I created a tracing sheet with the kids names on it, Eisley's in print and Cody's in cursive, I think they both did rather well and it will be nice to have this hand writing practice available anytime we need something extra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Computer time, we don't do alot of it and honestly, it was only because our computer was not in the playroom. I didn't want the kids on it if I couldn't see them. So when I moved my desk out to our playroom, it worked out a lot better for them to use it. Eisley is still learning to use the mouse so there isn't a whole lot of options for her, but she did love listening to music and watching videos! This helped so much when I needed to spend some extra time with Cody on a subject!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the video she is watching! https://youtu.be/R1Qn2bcZRTo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another new thing we added to our days was our Lego challenges! I have a sheet of different challenges for them to build. We had made each of them a Lego table during the summer and they weren't getting any use in their rooms, so we brought them our to our playroom and what do you know...they play on them everyday! Their challenge was a boat! Eisley talked about Finding Nemo and the boat that took Nemo and Cody talked about the ship from Pirates of the Caribbean! haha, I love how different they are! Not to mention it was a huge saving grace to have the Legos in the room because any time Eisley would get tired of her activities, she just plays with the Legos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Puffer Fishes with Forks! The kids loved this but Cody was completely lost when I handed him a fork...I did a bad job with him as a child hahah when he was Eisley's age I didn't really encourage a lot of "creative" thinking. So he likes to paint with paint brushes. Oh well, it's never too late to learn new things. He still enjoyed it, it was just harder for him to actually use it because he felt that there was a "right" way. I had to show him that you could use it how ever you saw fit. haha, sad i know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cone games! I found these perfect little cones at the Dollar Tree and have used them for many different games. The favorite so far is the animal walking. I will tell them to walk like a certain animal and name which color of cone to walk to. For example: "Hop like a frog to the yellow cone!" They love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Why do fish swim in schools?" We talked about that and we did a little object lesson, dropping one bead in the water and watching it float down, then trying to watch one bead float down with lots of beads falling at the same time. Cody pointed out that it was easy to pick a color and follow it down because the beads weren't all the same color. Which I replied, Good point, usually schools of fish contain only 1 type of fish...I didn't have only 1 color of beads. haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a late start to school one morning because Cody's tummy was feeling icky so we played games for awhile till he felt better. Longest game of Sofia UNO ever! We also played one of Cody's favorite game "Take Off" you have to get your little jets from one side of the world to the other. Really great for improving your geography skills!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She loves stickers of all kinds and we try to use them as much as possible. These awesome pages can be found <a href="http://www.themeasuredmom.com/dot-sticker-pages/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Color mixing is always better in a plastic bag! RIGHT?! hahah! Although I don't think our colors did a great job of mixing we did use the bag of paint to write letters. I would write the letter and she would find the letter puzzle piece that matched what I wrote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learning about Tide Pools! We got this awesome idea <a href="http://buggyandbuddy.com/tide-pool-science-experiment-kids/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! I loved how this doubled as a sensory bin because they played for hours. My son loved making it high tide and low tide over and over again. My daughter loved mushing the sand and playing with the boats!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we started our first "Home Ec" Class. Is was a success in some ways and a total bust in others. My first mistake was letting him watch Pioneer Woman and choosing a recipe. My thought was that he would be able to see it being done and it would help him understand the process better. The mistake was letting him chose a recipe that was not for beginners! Whoops. The success was I LET HIM USE A KNIFE WITHOUT FREAKING OUT! haha. I did leave the kitchen after these photos and left my husband in charge which was mistake #2! hahah I should have taken after photos, the kitchen was a disaster! But it was fun and memories were made! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh the joys of pumpkin carving...not my cup of tea and apparently neither of the kids enjoy it either! Why are we doing this then?!! haha. I love Eisley's pose, "I'm done with that!" is what she said after she touched the inside of the pumpkin once! haha! Seriously, why do we do this then?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The castle was my handing work, which I completely gave up on the design and just started stabbing at it! haha. My son on the other hand some how managed to pull off this awesome Clover from Sofia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite moment of the week: My parents coming to visit. My parents live very close and visit weekly if not more. But lately my dad has been working tons of over time and we haven't seen them as much as we're used to so this was such a gift. The kids love their Papa and Tita! I'm also so grateful for the relationship I have with my parents and that my kids get to have one too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What happens when the week doesn't meet your expectations...well, I feel bummed. I had lots of things planned this week that didn't happen. This is a normal occurrence. Somehow time gets away from us, naps don't happen, pretend play ends up being so cute between siblings that you can't bear to see it stop, because you are thinking to yourself "I may never see this again" haha. #thestruggleisreal. But one thing is for sure, I don't lose hope, because even though this has definitely been the cause of multiple sad evenings feeling like I have failed. I have learned one very valuable thing. Education is absolutely important in our home, but it comes in all forms and from the moment they open theirs eyes, they are learning about life in more ways than one. The biggest one is through me. If I carry guilt because I don't think I'm doing well enough or don't feel confident in my abilities, they pick up on that. I've realized that I set the tone for our days. If I think it's a waste of time to frolic outside and observe nature, I am teaching them to not "waste" time enjoying God's creation, the very thing he has allowed us to care for. That is just one example, but I'm sure you get my point. It's taken me years to realize that if I let things or situations determine how I feel, I'm allowing my feelings and those situations to rule my day. This doesn't turn out well folks. I would encourage you to start each day remembering a verse that motivates and inspires you. This is mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance." </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because although I would love to start each day having an amazing cup of tea and reading God's word. That is definitely not reality. The reality is that I can be tested on all different levels, weather it's spills, arguing or just plain disobedience they are all opportunities for me to teach my child. So weather I home school or not, I am still a teacher. I teach everyday, and God is my teacher. And I'll let you in on a little secret....he's got a pretty full proof plan for your life #hesgotyou! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So with that, on to our Letter "E" week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elephant Patterns. I created these simple patterns, but sadly because I made them when Cody was little, I can't find the file, otherwise I would totally have it up for download!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These little beads were almost the death of me! haha. As many of you know, I don't enjoy tiny pieces of rice, beans and now plastic beads tossed about. Yet for some reason I continue to give in to this idea that I may actually enjoy it...nope. Hasn't happened yet! These little crafts are definitely meant for 6+ and I would say a very patient 6+. It was a horrible idea to hand this project to Eisley...she got frustrated and quickly tossed her entire basket of plastic beads (That I so thoughtfully put into a container thinking this would help) on to the floor! BAAAHH!! Oh well. Cody decided to finish hers while she frolicked off as if she didn't just make a huge mess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been introducing lots of different math manipulatives to our morning review and these <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AZ6W7E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001AZ6W7E&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=RFZAF2WCNGOC55BT" nbsp="" rel="nofollow">Learning Resources Cuisenaire Rods </a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001AZ6W7E" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> make for some fun counting practice but Eisley seems to get pretty bored with them so I'm looking for more ways to use them. I found a game book about them and plan to apply some of those next week. I'll let you know how they go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Color matching elephants! Using buttons, paper clips, whatever I could find. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started a "Rewards Chart" for Cody with a ticket system and so far we are still in the testing phases. We are really just trying to get a feel for something that is going to make him excited and motivated to #1 Have a better attitude and #2 Be nice to his sister. So if you have ideas...please do share!! But if you would like a chart like this you can have it <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0JTMyDWp47UTlpZ191VzNFbkU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another freebie is our morning calendar page! I laminate it, then have them write on it with a dry erase marker! You can download it </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0JTMyDWp47V0Z2QTRHRnJ1Wnc/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope something you have read here today made you smile! Have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Blessing in disguise" That's what I would call this whole blogging process. It's hard work to carry my huge camera around all day remembering to capture moments and certain shots that look informative, then to find time to sit and write about it, while trying to make it sound exciting! Haha. Really I just try to spell correctly and that's about it. Sorry, that's just the truth! I'm not a writer, I'm not really a "Blogger" I just want to share ideas and capture memories. Which is the blessing! I looked at all the photos again as I load them into this blog and I remember those moments, those moments that could easily be forgotten because they were only 15-20 minutes of a day. Because if we think about it, alot of our days are remembered as the big events that took place, or in our case, the big meltdown or argument that took place. Of course, we don't want to remember everyday that way and don't mean to, but as a mom who is with her littles from morning, till night, life can become a blur really fast. I don't want to rush past these moments and blogging has really made it possible for me to look back in detail and see the work that I tend to forget I'm doing. God's work. He has blessed me with these amazing kiddos and trusted that I would tell them all about him and make things fun along the way. I blog so I don't forget that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She loves this activity each week! So grateful for these print outs from <a href="http://overthebigmoon.com/full-alphabet-letter-identification-printables/" target="_blank">Over the Big Moon</a>, I just add the animal of the week stickers and she's a happy girl!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contact paper, blue tape and construction paper shapes! This was a short activity but they enjoyed finding out what toys would stick and what was too heavy! That lasted longer than the original activity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She loves her writing practice and has started to write letter shapes everywhere.....like EVERYWHERE...tables, notebooks, walls, books. These print outs are apart of the "<a href="http://store.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70_71" target="_blank">Letter of the Week</a>" Curriculum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nuts and Bolts match! This was a super cheap and fun activity, she sat patiently putting each one on till the bolt was to the top! A good fine motor skill!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GeoBoard, so far she just makes lines. But soon I will make her some picture cards to make different shapes. I'm just letting her get used to using it. She tends to get frustrated if something looks intimidating to start off with and will just not try. She'll say "That's too hard, I'm still little" which I find hilarious because she really only uses that excuse when she doesn't want to do things...like help clean up toys! Haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alphabet Match: Alphabet Magnets and an Alphabet Poster (Dollar Tree). Super easy and affordable activity. You can extend the activity by making the animal sounds or actions as you match each one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape Twister: Blue Tape, Picture Cubes, Shape Print Outs. I realize I probably should have made the shapes on the floor closer to each other because my youngest couldn't reach across as far as my oldest. I made pictures for the cubes. You can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0JTMyDWp47Zkg1bWMzWGZrLUk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD HERE</a>, you can laminate if you feel they need it, but my kids are pretty good about not smashing the cubes so the regular paper will last awhile before getting wrinkled. Photo Cubes can be found through the link! I love these because we use them on so many different activities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dino Bones! White crayon and watercolors, I love how this turned out! I drew the dinosaur and she didn't know! So when I told her to paint and it started coming through, she was so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beans on the Line: This ended right after this picture. She was not into this activity at all. I'm going to try it again next week and make a fun shape or more simple shape and we'll see how it goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaf Collecting: This activity came after a long morning of sibling fighting and arguing, but they literally could not stop talking about this fun little trip around the neighborhood looking for as many different colored leaves as possible. This made me realize we should definitely start doing some scavenger hunts outside!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaf Rubbing: Always a fun and free activity! They loved it. I plan to do this again and have Cody identify the leaves from the different trees. Hopefully we get to it next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abacus Counting: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005BVRQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00005BVRQ&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=HER5U6FEHPIBS4CX">Melissa & Doug Classic Wooden Abacus</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00005BVRQ" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was surprised at how fun this made counting. We did our skip counting on it and Cody went through his times tables on it. A great new way to do review.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These were not a huge hit the first few times we pulled them out, but as she's getting the hang of it, she's beginning to really enjoy these!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm starting to realize that I have a ton of pictures of Eisley and her activities, but not Cody. I really have to get pictures of the awesome stuff he's been doing and making, especially at Co-op. Other times I don't really take pictures of him doing book work because well....that's boring haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello October!<br />Wow, it really feels like September flew right by! Does anyone else feel like that? Could be the busyness that comes with September with school starting and soccer in full swing! Speaking of soccer, <b>this week in soccer news:</b></span></div>
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I'm so proud of how hard he's been working in his soccer. He's so driven and motivated to do his best and give his all. I am so grateful for the many talents God has given him! Hopefully we'll be seeing a lot of doors open up for him in his future if he keeps working at it! His Rec. Team is currently 0 for 4, but he hasn't let that bum him out. He's staying positive and hoping the season turns around</div>
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<b>This week in Homeschooling:</b> We had a small cold work it's way through the family. Not fun, but hard to keep germs at bay when you have a toddler! But I think now is a great time as ever to do a sugar cut! We need our immune system in tip top shape if this little girl is going to continue licking everything and everyone! :p</div>
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So we worked around the colds and still managed to stayed on track for the most part. Dad jumped in and filled in when I was out for the day!</div>
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Gross Motor Skill activity! Blue tape on the floors! I had them walk along them, jump with one foot down them, kick a ball along the line and push the ball with their nose along the line! They enjoyed it and it proved to not be the easiest thing ever with my oldest. He always thinks the activities I pick for his sister will be super easy!</div>
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Candy Corn Craft, say that 3 times fast! This was an easy one, just tear orange, yellow and white paper and draw a candy corn shape with a white crayon on a black paper, have them glue the colored paper on and TA-DA!! Candy Corn! </div>
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Shape match activity can be found <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2010/07/preschool-printables-shape-tracers/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div>
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We were learning about caterpillars this week and our "<a href="http://store.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70_71" target="_blank">Letter of the Week</a>" Curriculum had this fun caterpillar size match activity</div>
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The kids love this map so much and we try to incorporate it into as much activities as we can. We have our <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008UFBU0G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008UFBU0G&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=GMWZDGPULWMVXQQD">LEAP FROG Globe Game</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B008UFBU0G" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Globe out and had them put the animals in the right continent they are from, by looking for them on the globe! The game also has cards with the animals and you could use those as well!</span></div>
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We love pattern blocks and are always looking for awesome pictures to use with them and these we found <a href="http://www.prekinders.com/pattern-blocks/" target="_blank">HERE</a> are perfect! They have so many different animals to choose from!!</div>
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Cody was learning about Eyes in science this week so we did a pupil response picture! They also loved shining flashlights in each others eyes...although I wouldn't recommend unless they were not those high powered LED light ones, they're were just soft light flashlights!</div>
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Sensory Bin has stayed the same because caterpillars turn into butterflies! ;) And because I was lazy! haha Next week will be a challenge because we will be using kinetic sand....kill me now! haha Just kidding...well...a little :)</div>
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We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" made egg carton caterpillars and used <a href="https://omazingkidsyoga.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-story-props-from-kizclub-com-color-version-6-page-pdf.pdf" target="_blank">THESE</a> to retell the story! I was really surprised with Eisley's ability to remember the details of the story and what she liked the best. I also loved how Cody had to correct the book in saying "It's a chrysalis not a cocoon because he's a butterfly, not a moth!" Hahah Thanks to our butterfly week, last week!</div>
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I've been asked a few times about what we use for Cody as far as curriculum goes. We use "<a href="http://www.homeschools.org/index.html" target="_blank">Christian Liberty Academy</a>". We decided since he's a bookworm and loves book work that a heavy work book load wouldn't phase him and we were right. He's done amazing and eats it all up. We of course break it up through the day and through the week so really he doesn't do a lot of sitting and writing but, I would say about 1 1/2 - 2 hours thought out the day is about average. For me, something about working out of a book is so peaceful and tactile! And I think Cody is a lot like me in that aspect and would prefer to write in a book than type on a computer! We'll have to observe Eisley a little more on her learning style to see if she will follow her brother into the academy. </div>
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<b>Favorite Memory of the Week:</b> The pumpkin patch! Eisley has been especially excited for the pumpkin patch since the beginning of summer! She's been asking over and over about going and wearing rain boots! We planned our trip for the first weekend in October and God gave us such favor today with parting the clouds and letting the sun shine all day after a day full of rain! We had a blast!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a super awesome week last week. Our schedule went as planned...but of course this would not last. It happens every year. I set these extravagant goals for organizing our day and they work for a moment then get completely tossed aside once something unexpected happens...this week being, we had family in town. Totally didn't plan for it. I knew ahead of time....but didn't plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this year, we're going to try and stick to it a little longer. I know that these new things will form good habits later in life and with the mind set of 21 days forms a habit...I'll give it a solid 21 days before throwing it out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cody has a morning binder with Calendar fill in pages, math, weather and science practice. This gives him something to do while Eisley and I sing through our morning circle time songs of ABC's, Days of the Week and so on. He sings too...just gets antsy and bored because he "Knows it already"! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another thing we added for Cody this year are his work boxes. He had them the last few years, but we never found a system that worked because he wasn't fully independent in his book work yet. This year, he loves this! He doesn't have to ask me what to do next, he doesn't have to wait for me to get his work books and he doesn't have to ask me what section, unit, or page he needs to work til (I make a post it note with that info and put it on his work book in the drawer) It's amazing for both of us! Especially since my 3 yr old needs a little more supervision with activities at this time. You can find the drawers HERE:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008O0LKLG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008O0LKLG&linkCode=as2&tag=pandandgira-20&linkId=CSHDCHK5SHLB6PLC">Seville Classics 10-Drawer Organizer Cart, Multi Color</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=pandandgira-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B008O0LKLG" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Spike, he is 1 of the 5 cockatiels we own. They have all become Cody's birds. These birds were mine before I was even married. Angel (16 yrs old) and Spike (15 yrs old) are our oldest and then comes Chulo (maybe 7, he was a rescue) then Talan and Milo who will be 10 yrs old on Christmas Eve! It brings me such joy to see Cody love them and spend time with them the way I used to when I was young. After the kids were born we still played with them but no where near as much as I did before the kids. So it's so nice to know that they get that kind of attention again especially now in this stage of their life when they love to just relax and be taken care of. Cody has such a patient, loving heart. They are a perfect fit! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm always so amazed at the fact that Cody is so excited to start another year of homeschool! We've had some ups and downs with it and yet it's still something he looks forward to every year! If that's not motivation for me to get my stuff together, I don't know what is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This week has been really eye opening in so many ways. I planned my butt off to get ready for this new adventure of schooling a preschooler and a third grader and I'm so glad I did. All the little things we've added to our schedule to help things move along have made such a difference in this year compared to years in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, week 1 was exhausting and amazing all at the same time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few things that I wasn't expecting, was spending a large portion of our day in our "Playroom". This room is set up for our circle time and with Eisley's work boxes, but I originally thought we would spend time here and in our dinning room like most of last year was spent. So I didn't really plan for both kiddos to be sitting at Eisley's little table! haha! Plans for getting a bigger table are in the works. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also seriously, sensory bins are going to be the death of me! I want to be the super fun mom that isn't bothered by the child swimming in the sensory bin, but I can't stand it. So if you have tips for how to keep everything with in a certain parameter, that would be greatly appreciated!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eisley is currently using the "Letter of the week" Curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler! You can get that <a href="http://store.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70_71" target="_blank">HERE</a>! I bought this for Cody when he was 3 and am so glad we get to reuse it because it's amazing!! I love that these activities keep her busy for 15-20 minute sections and cover alot of skills! I opted for the download for $15!! You can't beat that. You also have to buy a laminator and laminating sheets and invest sometime into laminating and cutting...but like I said....totally worth it, especially if you have multiple kiddos!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We read "Ten Apples up on Top" Alot this week it was fun to count while she put beads on the pipe cleaner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shape activity is also apart of the "Letter of the Week" Curriculum and I found the dice <a href="https://www.powerfulmothering.com/shape-sorting-blocks-with-free-printable/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! We used it as a game and the kids loved it. Cody made up some of his own rules and played a few different ways!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love seeing my husband challenge himself and serve others in the process. Coaching has not been easy for him but there is no doubt that his heart has been in it 100%! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it only took 3 years for me to get myself together to sit and blog again! Hahah! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life with one child has been drastically changed by adding the other. Now I know there are tons of moms laughing to themselves thinking "Wait till you get to 3 or 4 or even 5" But hey, it's different for everyone and this was a huge adjustment for our family because we had to start all over again. The 5 year age gap wasn't quite the breeze we were thinking it would be, but here we are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll tell you what though, there has not been a dull moment at all in these last few years. This girl is the firework we didn't know we needed to light up our world! I fall in love with this girl more and more everyday! She is truly a blessing to all of our lives!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it begins. One main reason I came back to blogging was purely selfish, I want to remember everything and being intentional is really the only way that I can make that happen. Looking back through old posts makes me so happy that I documented those moments in time, so even if no one ever reads my posts...that's ok, I love them!</span></div>
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<br />Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-91192389975442214782012-03-19T18:47:00.000-07:002012-03-19T18:47:06.085-07:00My Pregnancy Journal Week 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://happeningsoftheharperhousehold.net/2012/03/my-pregnancy-journal-linky-17-weeks/"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCy1NpXaFu4ufwrmCjAKDRDhT6v0_RTXzHV0ANmrNLWYh2oTPOkUbj96U7vNz8wfR0YKVOdYoIY_3a9e5VzAOZ7VgC56mmrH2T3bxt68QI3ANMYwE5tIywwPcmZcnLivi8uP3T7wAm5Q/s1600/untitled.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Symptoms: </strong>Nothing really different, just more uncomfortable back aches. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Weight Gain: </strong>On my scale, I am still coming in at the same weight as last week, so I'm guessing I haven't gained any this week...I hope. I can totally tell my boobs have gotten bigger though! haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Cravings: </strong>So we are a making dinner at home, no eating out type of household. So fast food is just way out of the question, the thought of it makes me want to vomit. BUT, for some reason, pregnancy makes me go blind when it comes to my healthy eating habits!! So I started craving Taco Bell nachos and couldn't fight it any longer. I gave in, and wow, thank goodness I got that out of my system, I never want to look at those nachos for as long as I live!! YUCK!! Looks like there is only 1 place that will get me every time, it's a little local burger place called Mikie's. Those burgers are heaven!! hahaha but I hope to not eat those either for the rest of my pregnancy!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Food Aversions:</strong> Taco Bell Nachos!! hhaaha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>What made me cry this week: </strong>Interupted sleep, My son woke us up multiple times this week, due to him fighting a cold and well, because my husband can sleep right through things, I got upset, then super sad. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Medical Stuff: </strong>Nothing much there, just waiting on my 26 week check up now. But here are pics from last week's ultrasound!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryKHa7-VG6H2g5xB9oUmwM0PtwUBRbNGh9i0v4XMtnfvlQ8IwPeO1lsvfqgVSK9Vm4h4o5-wBKNMWIk-nd9R_oKyEmNBxTASt7mTqh8eFtjXJXjbvgcMZh46bUOcAMniIJ7G6RhCqggQ/s1600/Eisley1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryKHa7-VG6H2g5xB9oUmwM0PtwUBRbNGh9i0v4XMtnfvlQ8IwPeO1lsvfqgVSK9Vm4h4o5-wBKNMWIk-nd9R_oKyEmNBxTASt7mTqh8eFtjXJXjbvgcMZh46bUOcAMniIJ7G6RhCqggQ/s320/Eisley1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her tiny profile shot</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiKFdnX8FJjn4ta_n9iCf75XXcxtY1vRR3a-eLBV9EZU3Q6OSqsPnIi_UA5zwJI0WTKLK0caycaeLYPRNK9XtxK2jedswbD59Kr1OufIqL3LAkKtqnbD5g-DRb7hMRgAnoOv1CFAy9JE/s1600/Eisley2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiKFdnX8FJjn4ta_n9iCf75XXcxtY1vRR3a-eLBV9EZU3Q6OSqsPnIi_UA5zwJI0WTKLK0caycaeLYPRNK9XtxK2jedswbD59Kr1OufIqL3LAkKtqnbD5g-DRb7hMRgAnoOv1CFAy9JE/s320/Eisley2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her little feet</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrByZ7TxytTfTnK6vuwvWO3sZxbHJwjGq4hCIV1BKGAWIvJJ_0yurbIThJMBhi_KfPWPH7FvASRcV6izAYCbTjSNviRFpcPA8Xz5WtU_pE7KmiBbJatGcgHXHGlSkvY_dt9f9dMfXdLfo/s1600/Eisley3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrByZ7TxytTfTnK6vuwvWO3sZxbHJwjGq4hCIV1BKGAWIvJJ_0yurbIThJMBhi_KfPWPH7FvASRcV6izAYCbTjSNviRFpcPA8Xz5WtU_pE7KmiBbJatGcgHXHGlSkvY_dt9f9dMfXdLfo/s320/Eisley3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A face shot</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
<strong>Thoughts from Cody (Pregnancy through a 5 yr olds eyes): </strong>I think Cody is growing more fond of his little sister everyday. This week was filled with tons more of his questions and thoughts. One situation was very interesting and comical to me, but very serious to him, we have been looking for houses to move into soon and so as we were coming to look at a house we met the owner and she asked us all our names. Once she got to Cody, and he answered, he had a very angry look on his face. I asked him, why he had "angry eyebrows" and he said "She didn't ask Eisley's name!" I smiled and said "She can't see Eisley hunny." He said, still very angry "So, she's there in your belly, so she should have asked!" hahah, I was very touched that he want to make sure his little sister was not left out and she's not even here yet. Love it!</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Something I'm excited about: </strong>Making cloth diapers!! We started a whole new sewing journey and are attempting to make our own fitted cloth diapers! I've made 1 so far and love it. Not only is it cheaper, but I also love sewing, especially for my kids. So this is fun times for me!! </span></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-42188782579122195692012-03-19T18:02:00.001-07:002012-03-19T18:04:10.895-07:00My First Fitted Cloth Diaper!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicWa0x_k1OMUPf6k8INWAp80Y-mW8aAqeJ64lBqDP2UsR1z-quM7c6rW8mEbja8SqMYZEXSNcxwg5Aeu3iNHXYwGXyyUBYO6Ppzi35XeDnNQoV-U9zd0EDt-iSZxPmynQuoZiOJcclfk/s1600/Diaperpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicWa0x_k1OMUPf6k8INWAp80Y-mW8aAqeJ64lBqDP2UsR1z-quM7c6rW8mEbja8SqMYZEXSNcxwg5Aeu3iNHXYwGXyyUBYO6Ppzi35XeDnNQoV-U9zd0EDt-iSZxPmynQuoZiOJcclfk/s400/Diaperpic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So friends, I am very excited to share the first product of my new sewing journey!! It's my first fitted cloth diaper!! I made this one last night using some left over fabrics I had on hand. I've made 2 trips to Joann's already for tons of super cute fabrics so you will definately be seeing those soon. I just wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing before I started using the cute stuff :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For this being my first time, I think I did rather well!! I learned that I need to make the hole (to turn fabric inside out/right side out) in the front so that I can do the elastic along the back side seam allowance. I also learned that I want to double up on cotton flannel, on atleast 1 side. I also need to add one more layer of absorbency. I think watching all those youtube videos really paid off!! haha. We used the pattern from <a href="http://www.darlingdiapers.com/">Darling Diapers</a>, it's the newborn one and it's FREE!! It worked really well for us!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So this diaper consists of a layer of cotton flannel on the outside, a layer of cotton knit on the inside, and 2 pieces of microfiber terry for the soaker. We also plan on sewing velcro on the cute ones, I didn't want to waste velcro since it's not cheap (Because we got colored velcro) and sewing velcro on, really isn't a challange. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So all in all, I think the second one will be much better and I can't wait to share the rest of the stash we create!! I'm also working on burp clothes, bibs, a quilted blanket, and some cloth wipes. I'm going to be busy, busy, busy!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kdbuggieboutique.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b441/kshisley/th_minglemondaybuttonnew325.png" /></a></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-37112520209065857092012-03-13T11:23:00.000-07:002012-03-13T11:23:36.921-07:00Menu Plan Monday (Or Tuesday)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtyC710KLpzbzp3M1ET1_uIQtOpt-vYr0ml2CKydPVjD-5AfuOyFOIJ0UkCgrl67W4IMeR9eyrXe21itUZ2akDnPXWETC1VPSVG4OZOAbPGVGAborUT4K8r6Mex5n9AjP9jhAdR0WMR4/s1600/mpm-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtyC710KLpzbzp3M1ET1_uIQtOpt-vYr0ml2CKydPVjD-5AfuOyFOIJ0UkCgrl67W4IMeR9eyrXe21itUZ2akDnPXWETC1VPSVG4OZOAbPGVGAborUT4K8r6Mex5n9AjP9jhAdR0WMR4/s1600/mpm-11.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dinner Plans</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Monday</strong>- <a href="http://www.fortheloveofcooking.net/2008/03/chicken-teriyaki-burger-with-grilled-pineapple.html">Chicken Teryaki Burgers with Fries</a></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Tuesday</strong>- <a href="http://passionatepennypincher.com/2011/02/roast-sticky-rotisserie-style-chicken/">Roast Chicken</a> with Red Potatoes and Veggies<br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong>- <a href="http://www.simplebites.net/family-friendly-chicken-strips/">Baked Chicken Strips with Veggies</a></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Thursday</strong>- <a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2010/05/asian-salmon-on-the-grill.html">Baked Asian Salmon with White Rice and Roasted Squash</a><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Friday</strong>- <a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2009/07/baked-spaghetti.html">Baked Spaghetti with Salad</a><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Saturday</strong>- <a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2009/08/camarones-con-arroz-shrimp-with-rice.html">Camaronez Con Arroz</a><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Sunday</strong>- <a href="http://afewshortcuts.com/2009/10/weekly-meal-deal-caramel-apple-pork-chops/">Caramel Apple Pork Chops</a> and Mashed Potatoes</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Lunch and Breakfast Ideas</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.alexandracooks.com/2011/06/29/buttermilk-blueberry-breakfast-cake/">Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake</a> with Bacon and Eggs<br />
<a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/330179/bacon-egg-and-toast-cups">Bacon, Egg and Toast Cups</a><br />
<a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2010/03/fish-tacos-with-chipotle-dressing.html">Fish Tacos</a></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2010/01/loaded-baked-potatoes-with-homemade-cheese-sauce.html">Loaded Baked Potatoes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fortheloveofcooking.net/2012/02/dill-chicken-salad-sandwiches.html">Dill Chicken Salad Sandwiches</a></span></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-35713825126412058002012-03-12T21:33:00.001-07:002012-03-12T21:46:38.246-07:005 yr old IN THE HOUSE!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbh8w-kGtsgLLgxSuZrtAu4xGEiykpT9Y4Oq4GEzujq21UvRgbzEXyiz8yPvhWV_koL0LeHKRfe81UDxTKA1vksw9yGxkG5j0YfHLzOZjHL_vlwddVJEGbzXEd-6LUj-q3DtxtV_wXHs/s1600/BODY2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbh8w-kGtsgLLgxSuZrtAu4xGEiykpT9Y4Oq4GEzujq21UvRgbzEXyiz8yPvhWV_koL0LeHKRfe81UDxTKA1vksw9yGxkG5j0YfHLzOZjHL_vlwddVJEGbzXEd-6LUj-q3DtxtV_wXHs/s320/BODY2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it's true, we now have a 5 yr old in our house!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I can not for one second understand how time flew by that fast, but it did. 5 YEARS AGO he was my sweet, tiny, first little baby boy. Everything about parenting was new. I was really playing it by ear. But boy was he my life changer. Everything I thought I wanted for my life, changed because of him. I wanted nothing more in the world than to be the best mother for him I could possibly be. I can't express how happy this child makes me, that I would move heaven and earth for him. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He's been nothing but a blessing to our lives and has made me a better person. I am so grateful God trusted us to raise this little man. He's got such a bright future and I know he has a huge calling. This kid is gonna move mountains and change lives. I'm so proud to be his mother!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6hhOxIHLg8wEPu89l4OiC3XNVjHVuR1Z_jLtUQ9mXlQxAW0vKqblohU9Du3rPbSyOIVcmuXxA1lWw7sybJjOJGbo5Hfyu3XjZyThXyJSctIZr1G0aycCbJT7NPhtG7U0bBVcrVYzHq8/s1600/DSC_0066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6hhOxIHLg8wEPu89l4OiC3XNVjHVuR1Z_jLtUQ9mXlQxAW0vKqblohU9Du3rPbSyOIVcmuXxA1lWw7sybJjOJGbo5Hfyu3XjZyThXyJSctIZr1G0aycCbJT7NPhtG7U0bBVcrVYzHq8/s320/DSC_0066.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">All the printouts you see, like the cupcake picks, Milk Carton Favors, Bowzer Lava Labels, Yoshi's Candied Apple Labels, Questions Marks on the yellow boxes and the Birthday Banner are all available for you to use!! I will upload them to my google docs soon :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We also played Mario Bingo I created, which the kids LOVED!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He had a great time and got tons of stuff he was wanting so YAY! A blessed day for a blessed boy!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87pot_F0nw2gMSqZYc6xcPMaYjHVQe6-JhwU0juCh9MuT-uDEVyf5ndYR6qcYdrMAqOZURRb8WoIv492ByzS1xkL_P1XSwQKfHc7r89PTVrZDMEEkUoNJU4tlfIf8ctelSO7U5qS4rao/s1600/DSC_0130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87pot_F0nw2gMSqZYc6xcPMaYjHVQe6-JhwU0juCh9MuT-uDEVyf5ndYR6qcYdrMAqOZURRb8WoIv492ByzS1xkL_P1XSwQKfHc7r89PTVrZDMEEkUoNJU4tlfIf8ctelSO7U5qS4rao/s320/DSC_0130.JPG" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kdbuggieboutique.com/2012/03/mingle-monday-3122012.html"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b441/kshisley/th_minglemondaybuttonnew325.png" /></a></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-82984623010045606132012-03-12T21:02:00.000-07:002012-03-12T21:02:56.514-07:00My Pregnancy Journal (19-20 weeks)<center><a href="http://happeningsoftheharperhousehold.net/tag/my-pregnancy-journal/" target="_blank"><img alt="Happenings of the Harper Household" src="http://i39.tinypic.com/scvqe8.jpg" /></a></center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had every intention on taking a picture of myself sometime in the last 2 weeks..but it didn't happen. I'm sorry, I failed. But, I will do one this week!! Promise!! </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Symptoms: </strong>I've been feeling great these last 2 weeks! I mean aside from my feet hurting when I walk too much and my back hurting when I've been standing for too long, but that's pretty normal considering this baby is getting bigger :)</span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Weight Gain: </strong>I want to say maybe 1 pound, but it's been jumping from 3 extra pounds in the evenings, then going back down in the mornings. Really crazy. </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cravings: </strong>Top Ramen with Tabasco!!! Soooo weird, but I never wanted to look at Top Ramen again after my husband and I practically lived off of it back in our newlywed days. They say that you're craving sometimes come from a nutrients need or a comfort memory, I totally think it's a comfort memory because there is nothing nutritional about Top Ramen. hahah. </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Food Aversions: </strong>Subway haha, just the mention makes me gag. </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What made me cry this week: </strong>I've had a really good 2 weeks, but I did get all choked up when I was writing my little status on Facebook about my son turning 5. Here it is: "</span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 yrs ago at 9:01 pm March 4th we were blessed with a child. A child who would forever change our lives. His charm, smarts, over active imagination and love has warmed our hearts and those he meets. Cody Kade Robinson We love you so much and feel forever blessed that you are our son. Happy Birthday Big Boy :)"</span></em></center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote that and immediately started balling, I was just so happy and proud of my son and grateful! </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Medical Stuff: </strong>Well I had my 20 week ultrasound and you know what that means!!!</span></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyJcWMPmcvwgYG74KMA3OPipOPvl2TvSXHB85P9sicAaN0vYDHCEhXVGxksbtx0l_Cy_725YlmacnmCOG1EMw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Thoughts from Cody</strong>: (Pregnancy through the eyes of a 5 yr old Boy) Well Cody is full of all kinds of fun things to say, I mean constiently! These last 2 weeks there was alot of talk about the ultrasound and trying to make him comfortable with either way it would turn out and lucky for us he really did feel fine about either one, boy or girl. But the talks after the ultrasound went a little different. haha. He was a little dissapointed :( But he is coming to terms with it) He's excited that he won't have to share his toys and that mommy will have "Someone on your team!" But a funny little thought came out when he came into my doctors appt. with me for the first time and heard the baby's heart beat with us. He said "Does that mean she's still alive?" Daddy was quick to answer, "Yes." But then he fired back with "What happens if it stops?!" Oh geez, the midwife just looked at us...but daddy again, very quick to the draw said "It won't, see yours is still beating and so is mine" hahah good job daddy!! So yeah. He's a big thinker and talker! </span></center><center> </center><center><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Something I am excited about</strong>: SHOPPING!! I know I was excited about that last week too, but now I can pick out GIRL stuff!! A first for me so I'm over the moon excited. I am loving the fact that there is soooo much variety out there. I'm not a pale pink or shades of pink fan, so I was a little afraid, but thank goodness there are soo many options!!</span></center>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-43656920318732407122012-02-27T07:01:00.000-08:002012-02-27T07:01:43.778-08:00Menu Plan Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://orgjunkie.com/2012/02/menu-plan-monday-feb-2712.html"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtyC710KLpzbzp3M1ET1_uIQtOpt-vYr0ml2CKydPVjD-5AfuOyFOIJ0UkCgrl67W4IMeR9eyrXe21itUZ2akDnPXWETC1VPSVG4OZOAbPGVGAborUT4K8r6Mex5n9AjP9jhAdR0WMR4/s1600/mpm-11.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting back into the swing of things, after a horrible week of eating out, thank goodness we are getting back to normal and making dinners again. I mean don't get me wrong, eating out is pretty fantastic because it's no work at all, but after doing it a couple days in a row, it loses it's spark. We were eating out alot because I was recovering from bed rest and while I was actually on bed rest my parents were here cooking meals everyday. But when I started to get back to doing stuff on my own, my husband didn't want me to cook..so his solution, let's go out. hahah. Love him for trying. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So let's see, we're gonna go with a few favorites this week. My husband is kinda picky so I have to spring things on him by surprise otherwise he'll protest it. Which is al ot harder now, because he wants to be apart of the meal planning now. Can't say I don't enjoy that, but I see him wanting to pick the same things over and over. Is that a guy thing? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Monday :</strong> <a href="http://eatathomecooks.com/2008/10/taco-soup.html">Taco Soup</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Tuesday : </strong><a href="http://passionatepennypincher.com/2011/02/roast-sticky-rotisserie-style-chicken/">Rotisserie Chicken</a> with mashed potatoes and veggies</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Wednesday: </strong><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/1900024812487550/">Apricot Glazed Chicken Drumsticks</a> with salad<br />
<strong>Thursday : </strong><a href="http://www.simplebites.net/coconut-ginger-chicken-vegetables-slow-cooker-challenge/?doing_wp_cron=1326720131">Coconut Ginger Chicken</a> with quinoa <strong></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Friday : </strong><a href="http://www.20minutesupperclub.com/recipe/corries-creamy-corn-and-shrimp-chowder/">Creamy Corn and Shrimp Chowder</a> with corn bread<br />
<strong>Saturday : </strong>Tuna and Fig Wraps (Recipe below)<br />
<strong>Sunday : </strong>My son's 5th birthday, dinner out!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Prep:</strong> 15min<br />
<strong>Serves:</strong> 6<br />
<strong>Ingredients:</strong>1 5.3 oz container 2% Greek yogurt, honey flavored</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 tsp lemon zest</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pepper</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 12oz can solid white tuna in water, drained</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2/3 cup quartered dried figs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 rip celery, thinly sliced</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2 scallions thinly sliced</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3 cups mixed salad greens </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6 10 inch multi grain wraps</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Directions:</strong>Combine yogurt and lemon zest in a medium bowl and season with pepper. Stir in flaked tuna, figs, walnuts, celery, parsley, and scallions. Place 1/2 cup salad greens on each wrap and divide tuna mixture equally on top. Roll and serve.</span></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-65419345006594168502012-02-27T06:19:00.000-08:002012-02-27T06:19:21.044-08:00Meet Me On Monday<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.actingbalanced.com/search/label/meet%20me%20on%20monday" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Acting Balanced" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1jQojnJKNfUuQf-DorZ2AX7K8tQclYC-vAhxwLtbRqJik9ZvK89rw8GYPef5NsD4mUq02WS4uU_YzBBDKat2s0u_I1dmEpTp_sQ0DlmV7ScMkXDp66jhdhXSlIBu3aKRnF2t5zt8LLE/s150/meet%2520me%2520on%2520monday%2520one.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every Monday, Acting Balanced hosts a great little get-to-know-you hop. She posts questions that all us bloggers must answer to get to know each other. Here are today's questions!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>1. What was the first live concert you ever attended?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, I started going to concerts when I was 12, I couldn't tell you what the first one was. I used to go to shows every weekend. I'm pretty sure there was Creation Fest when I was 12 and Warped Tour when I was 13, were the big ones I remember.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>2. What colors look best on you?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of people say hot pink looks really nice on me, and I'm not a girly girl so I find that to be funny although, I do love me some hot pink!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>3. What is one thing about you that most people wouldn't know?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every time I answer this question it's the same answer, I skateboarded for 4 years when I was a teenager. I was actually pretty close to a local sponsership. It wouldn't be that much of a surprise if you knew me. You would know that I'm a total tom boy and it makes sense. hah<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>4. Who would you call to be bailed out of jail?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband most definately. I doubt anyone else would really try. haha</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>5. What do you think is the greatest invention of your lifetime and why?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">INTERNET!!! Because it is seriously such a revolution that I don't understand how you couldn't be benefiting from it in a positive way!</span></span></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-65058148112405560662012-02-26T10:18:00.000-08:002012-02-26T10:18:03.578-08:00Sunday School Kids<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it would be fun to post the Do Goodies Series (Based on the verse Galatians 6:9)my husband and I created for our church's nursery class. Something about 2 year olds and preschoolers in general it's amazinf and a joy to watch them learn. I loved having the opportunity to help them learn more about Jesus in a fun way, I hope you enjoy these short episodes and share them with the little ones in your life! I also have a link to the left of my blog where you can download all the music we made for our children's worship, for FREE!! So please take a minute and check that out too, I know you won't be dissapointed!</span></div><br />
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</div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-55581683799602975652012-02-24T21:14:00.003-08:002012-02-24T21:27:50.312-08:00My Pregnancy Journal Entry Baby #2 (17 weeks)<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://happeningsoftheharperhousehold.net/2012/02/my-pregnancy-journal-linky-14-weeks/"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCy1NpXaFu4ufwrmCjAKDRDhT6v0_RTXzHV0ANmrNLWYh2oTPOkUbj96U7vNz8wfR0YKVOdYoIY_3a9e5VzAOZ7VgC56mmrH2T3bxt68QI3ANMYwE5tIywwPcmZcnLivi8uP3T7wAm5Q/s1600/untitled.png" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw this little link up and I thought, I probably should get started on documenting somewhere or else it won't happen.<br />
This pregnancy has really been something else. I can't be more grateful for this child that god has blessed me with. I just felt so sad in the beginning when we were having problems. I had a miscarriage 3 months before I got pregnant this time around. It was devastating. I felt so unsure of wanting to try again. I was at peace with God's plans but didn't want to feel like that again (who would) But I had to accept that if it was going to happen again, then it would and if I wanted a baby, I was going to have to try. So when we found out we were pregnant again, it was exciting, but I was nervous, I wanted to be so careful (as if I could really do anything to help), but then when I was 13 weeks along, I started bleeding, my heart sunk and I felt like it was the end of my world. I wanted so bad to be in control of what was happening, but I had to let go, and accept God's fate, whichever way it was going to go. After bed rest and lots of rest, it got better. Within days it stopped completely and it took about 3 weeks for my body to regain it's energy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This brings me to today, after having an appointment and ultrasound 2 weeks ago, seeing my baby for the first time and getting good news that the baby looks well, I'm now in a place where I can dream again. I can plan for things to come, I can visualize holding my baby, loving my baby and being a mother again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that is the story. Now you know some background. Now to the fun stuff. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>My baby at 17 weeks</strong> (Taken from Babycenter.com)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your baby's </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/fetal-development-images-17-weeks" title=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">skeleton is changing</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/slideshow-baby-size?slideNumber=15"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">about as much as a turnip</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">NO, I won't give you a belly pic...I'm a little fluffy so...I would say you couldn't tell if you saw it anyway. haha. Sad, but true. I need to buy some shirts that state I'm pregnant, so at least people don't think I'm just getting fatter. haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Symptoms: </strong>Well I have my energy back!!! YAY! It's sad that I have been so happy to do household chores, but I was! It's nice, but for some odd reason the mornings are still interesting. My routine for the last 3 weeks not is, wake up, dry heave in the restroom for about 2 to 4 minutes then blow my nose which is full of snot. WHAT THE HECK! haha. But I would take that over morning sickness nausea any day. It's just weird. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Weight Gain:</strong> Ok, so I was doing really well that last few weeks, but this week 3 pounds came out of no where!! I mean...well I might know where they came from...haha but I definitely won't let that happen again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cravings:</strong> It's sad....but it's been cheeseburgers. This is really not something I eat normally, but the funny thing is that I craved the same thing with my first and through my 3rd trimester, it's what ruined me. It's why I'm fat now. NO JOKE! It is! I ate cheeseburgers like they were tic tacs!! Shame on me, I know. But this time around I swore I would take better care of myself and I have! I have completely different eating habits now and I'm alot healthier. But there they are again....calling me....those cheeseburgers! *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Food Aversions:</strong> hahah so I'm gonna quote my husband on this one "You hate healthy things right now" hahahah this might be a little true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What made me cry this week: </strong>My annoying older brother, he can be a jerk sometimes and my hormones don't help that. After a day of shopping with him, I came home, vented to my husband and sobbed for awhile. haha. It actually made me feel better. But surprisingly I haven't cried in a few weeks! I think that's awesome!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medical Stuff:</span></strong> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing really, this week has been the best so far so, I'm excited for things to just keep going up from here! I think the new prenatals that I started taking about 2 weeks ago have really helped with my back pain! So yay! (Garden of Life, Vitamin Code Prenatal) In case you're wondering!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Thoughts from Cody (</strong>From the mind of a almost 5 year old<strong>)</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my son is so funny when it comes to the baby, he has taken ownership of this baby and it is his baby! Earlier this week as we were homeschooling, he stopped his work to ask if I had bought bottles for the baby yet, I said "No, not yet, why?" He said "Well mom, the baby can't drink from cups! We need to buy those bottles soon!" haha I said "Ok Cody, we will." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are lots of these moments that come up. Like just today, I was trying to give Cody some love and I was hugging him super hard on the couch and he stopped me and said "Mom, remember the baby! You can't squish me so hard, you might hurt the baby!" I was like "oh, ok." I was sad, but glad that he was being so thoughtful. I love my big boy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Something I am excited about</strong>:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Online shopping. hahahhahahaha, my husband and I decided to cloth diaper this baby and I'm beyond excited about it, I LOVE CLOTH DIAPERS, and my husband actually is just as excited about this as I am....well maybe not the online shopping, but the cloth diapers themselves. I love him! </span>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999418041997296222.post-71142370812959170552012-02-24T16:01:00.002-08:002012-02-24T16:20:31.327-08:00Free Friday!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you may remember from last week, Every Friday I will be sharing all the contests I've been entering throughout the week, so if you are interested in all things cloth diapering, than these would be right up your alley!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dailymothering.com/sunbaby-4-0-one-size-cloth-diaper-review-giveaway/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunbaby One Size Cloth Diaper Giveaway Ends March 10th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lifewithmylittles.blogspot.com/2012/02/bumgenius-free-time-diaper-review-and.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$25 Giftcard to Modern Cloth Ends Feb. 24th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lifewithmylittles.blogspot.com/2012/02/birthday-blessings-bash-bumgenius-40-in.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bumgenius 4.0 Diaper Giveaway Ends Feb. 29th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sistersncloth.com/2012/02/21/little-bee-co-bee-changed-review-and-giveaway/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bee Changed Diaper Giveaway Ends March 6th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mamaonagreenmission.com/2012/02/fuzzibunz-review-gveaway.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fuzzibunz Elite One Size Diaper Giveaway Ends March 7th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sew-fatty.blogspot.com/p/reviews-giveaways.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Groovycheeks Regular One Size Diaper Giveaway Ends March 14th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lifewithmylittles.blogspot.com/2012/02/birthday-blessings-bash-fuzzi-bunz-and.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$15 or $25 Gift Card to The Tender Tush Ends March 2nd</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://clothdiapergeek.blogspot.com/2012/02/announcing-buttercupbabys-twitter-party.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cloth Diaper Geek Twitter Party March 6th Tons of prizes!</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://change-diapers.com/2012/02/giveaway-knickernappies-one-size-cloth-diaper-wloopydo-inserts-38-u-s-canada/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knickernappies One Size Pocket Diaper Giveaway Ends March 8th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://happeningsoftheharperhousehold.net/2012/02/grovia-my-choice-trainer-giveaway/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GroVia My Choice Trainer Giveaway Ends March 16th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dailymothering.com/wahmies-deluxe-one-size-cloth-diaper-review-giveaway/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wahmies Deluxe One Size Diaper Giveaway Ends March 10th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.manager-to-mom.com/2012/02/applecheeks-envelope-cover-insert.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AppleCheeks Little Bundle cover+insert Giveaway Ends March 7th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://katydibs.blogspot.com/2012/01/country-drawers-review-and-giveaway.html?spref=fb"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">$15 Gift Card to Country Drawers Ends Feb. 28th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://anjibeane.blogspot.com/2012/02/glow-bug-cloth-diaper-review-giveaway.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glow Bug Cloth Diaper Giveaway Ends March 15th</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is alot of information floating around out there about cloth diapers and other natural living baby stuff and I must share some videos that really helped me make some sense of it all! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kayla (obbsandlala) is not only super fun to listen to, she is full of all kinds of information! I love that she is very honest about all of her "reviews" on things. Her video on accessories sure did same me alot of headache of looking each little thing up individually, I sat through the whole video start to finish!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/YWUf66MXi6w?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also got so much information from (Theschweeps) She did an awesome experiment on Cloth Diaper Inserts, I felt it was very informative and helped me decide which inserts I would like to try for myself! It's a 2 part video and she also does a video on natural fiber inserts!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/1rCIrZHMbTs?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/MWcpnZ2sXTU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ktH0J-iycs8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also another video that I found really insightful, from (Dirtydiaperlaundry). I was amazed at the results of their experiment on stay dry diapers, weather the baby is really staying dry or not. Check it out!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/i73zaRJQTwo?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last but not least, informative and hilarious, (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MamaNaturalBlog/videos">Mamanatural</a>) Pick any of her videos from her uploads, especially her show episode. Love watching her and love all the info she shares in such a fun way! Definately worth watching!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope these help some of you out there that are newbies like me to the cloth diapering world! </span></div><div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.homegrownfamilies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/missie1413/bunnybloghop.jpg" /></a></div>Laurabudcodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00912418324710050532noreply@blogger.com0