We are having a contest in our house. We have all planted a bean and we are going to see who's plant grows the tallest. I am giving the contest 30 days. Who ever wins, will get a prize. I still have to figure that prize out! Any suggestions?
We are also experimenting to see which will grow faster a green bean or a pea.
Here is a very cute and easy bunny craft you can do. All you need is 2 paper plates, construction paper, googly eyes (optional), black yarn for whiskers,cotton balls, scissors, glue and a black marker.
Crumbs. Granted we all ate about 1/6th of the cookie dough before it was ever baked. Cookies don't last long in this family.
This is the first bigger size lap book I have made Brodie. The others have all been half the size. There is definitely some areas that are a little old for him still, which is great he has something already made to grow in to.
I added the coloring page on the front. If you are interested in printing this totbook for your little one you can go here to get the pdf. Thank you Carisa once again for this awesome book!
I found this idea from Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. Isn't is cute? And so simple, I like that. She like me, loves to decorate for the seasons. She has some really cute ideas for decorating with Easter eggs. Go here to see more of her ideas.
This is the result of Drew helping me put the silverware away. He started off really good, but didn't end real strong.
I used the same chick template as I did in my craft the other day. You can find it here. We just glued on feathers. Very simple, easy and cute!
My boys were being shy today.
And were trying to be anonymous!
Check out Ramblings of a Crazy Woman for more craft ideas.
5 things I am confused about today.
I printed the chicks from here. Then I cut nests out of tan construction paper. I had lots of left over pieces of yarn from when I use to do latch hooking so we used that to glue onto our nest. We colored the chicks, cut them out and glued them onto the nest.
Saturday we played outside most of the day and did some planting, raking and more burning. Will went to Menards to get all the stuff to make our rain barrels. Saturday night we had Wills parents and sister up for a grill out. The weather was great and it was good to spend some time with them. It was a relaxing evening.
I can't believe tomorrow is Monday already. This is the start of a couple months of even more craziness. Jake starts track tomorrow and Tony starts baseball practice. For the next few weeks our Mondays will consist of picking Jake up from track practice at 4:30, having Tony to his piano lesson by 5:30 and then to baseball practice by 6:30. Not sure when we will squeeze in dinner. Might have to have PB and J's in the van!
It was another beautiful day so after breakfast we headed to the Zoo! We had a really good time there. We ate lunch there on a bench watching the monkeys. After the Zoo we headed home and the little boys rested for a bit. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon outside playing.
For dinner I made some Irish Stew. The younger 3 kids weren't fans, but the older 3 thought it was pretty good. 
I also made some Irish Soda bread and green lemonade. We ended the night with green rice krispie bars. 
It was a very Happy St. Patrick's Day at our house. Hope yours was just as enjoyable!
We have had beautiful weather the last couple days. We have spent every waking moment outside enjoying it! With the exception of staring the weekend out inside decorating cookies. We didn't have any St. Patrick's themed cookie cutters so we did a random assortment of Spring like ones. 
We had a very busy and productive Sunday. We came across some free mulch and decided to take advantage of it. Our friends came over with their pick up and we got 2 huge bed loads. I have been wanting to add mulch under the kids play area. I put mulch down 2 years ago and it has almost completely turned into compost. It was getting pretty muddy every time it rained. Now, it looks wonderful again! I have to thank Jake for making countless trips up the hill with the wheelbarrow to transport the mulch. We couldn't drive on the yard because it was too soggy so we had to do it all my wheelbarrow. Jake did it all himself. It was the hardest I think I have ever seen him work. It took him all afternoon and evening.
We also raked, and raked, and raked. We raked so many leaves, branches, pine cones and needles, all of our hands and bodies are paying for it today. Even the kids did an awesome job loading their wheelbarrows and taking needles and leaves over to the fire. Who says child labor is a bad thing!
We also burned the gigantic pile of wood and sticks that we have had building up the last year. Will decided to top it off with the Christmas tree. As fast as that tree went up...
It was over. But as of tonight 36 hours later the large logs are still burning. Even after spraying it with water for a few minutes last night before we went to bed. Of course Tony has not been able to stay very far away from it. He is mesmerized by the flames. He constantly is poking at with his stick.
I have been so grateful to get outside and get some yard work done. It feels so good to have the warm sun on our faces. It has been a very long Winter. I can't wait to get the garden going. I have already planned out what we are going to do but I will save that for a different post!
Here is the new Tot book I made for Drew. He is really into Bob the Builder right now. He also likes Handy Manny. Something to do with the tools. He loves tools. I found this Tot book on this wonderful site called 1+1+1=1. Carisa is so generous to share all her ideas for the world. I have gotten most of our lap books from her. I went to the Disney website to print off the coloring page on the front. Go to 1+1+1=1 to check out the other books she has to offer. 
A construction zone with Play-dough dirt.
And a baking zone. I made 10 loaves of bread and a double batch of sugar cookies.
I would say we all had a pretty productive day. We won the war, built a city and we have enough bread and cookies to feed them all.
