Scrabble Sunday

Today we played our first official Family game of Scrabble.  Little girl found it boring but hung in there, both kiddos needed a little help but overall except for listening to the whining (ha, ha) I had fun!   This is what we ended up with:

I ended up winning, little girl second, daddy third and the boy came in last by three points.  Some tears were shed over that one, I think someone was overtired by this weekends activities.

I have let them know this will become a  Sunday afternoon tradition, we will see if that holds true.

It has also inspired me to work on my game board wall in our family room.   Once I get it done will post pictures.  In the meantime I am working on a large terrarium. Will post more on that soon too!

Guess who came up with nag?

Does your family enjoy scrabble?  What ages did your kiddos really get into it?

So anyway, till next time…. Beth

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

 

Summer vacation report by the boy.

Happy Golden Birthday

My precious baby girl is having her Golden B-day today.   This picture was taken this morning… she is taking a cupcake cake to school for her birthday snack today. 

We will probably take her to her favorite resturant, McDonald’s after school.  She will be thrilled, me and her daddy will have fun watching her!  She loves her chicken nuggets! 

The real party will be on Saturday…lot’s to do between now and then.   

Daughters are angels
Sent from above
To fill our heart
With unending love

I Heart Faces – Winter Wonderland

This is a picture of my son dropping snow in front of him… he had been playing on a sidewalk in front of a store while we were waiting for his dad to come out… No coat but gloves…. a snowball fight between him and his sissy soon followed… love how if you take the time you can make a mundane task of waiting fun…. It was fun for me, we had the camera with us and I got some other great shots that day as well.  

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Toothless

She finally lost her front tooth, it has been loose for about a month or more now.  She would not let me nor her dad near it to wiggle it.  However, she did let a friend help her get it out.

If you have a princess about ready to lose a tooth you may want to play this  video of Twinkle the Tooth Fairy for them, it may help them feel better about losing their tooth!

I Heart Faces – Vroom, Vroom week

Summer fun…

uh huh, that's right! The girl in the pink is passing you!!

GO, PINK, GO!

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Madison Children’s Museum

We have a new Children’s Museum in our town, which we checked out today.  They had a special admission price of $ 1.00 which made it an attractive deal.

The kiddos and us had a blast.  A lot of different interactive things to do and a roof top garden to boot!

The water gazebo has water flowing from the top down gutters into troughs that the kiddos can play with by scooping and filling containers.  It also has something that makes cool steam for the kiddos to play in.  An obvious hit with the kiddos.  The boy also dunked the top of his head in the water and sported a spiky hair look for awhile.

Before getting to the water gazebo the kiddos and I had to make our way across a dinosaur bone bridge. 

Next up was a slide… Look at the beautiful wood here… I had some fleeting thoughts about how we could do this in our house… just look at the beauty of the this wood, it is gorgeous.

Not only good looking wood but fun too!  Could you imagine getting to slide downstairs every morning and using a rope to help climb upstairs, all while admiring a gorgeous piece of wood.   Yeah, like I said a fleeting thought…

After that the kiddos made their way to the hamster wheel.

Next on the tour is the dragon lair???  A climbing apparatus which reminded me of old time bird cages but the slide down was a dragon (with a saddle on it?)  Stay tuned for a picture coming up soon…

Going up….

The bird cage …

And here is the dragon riding cow girl princess…

Next on the adventure was table play, they have a model city made out of wood that the kiddos can put together…(think train table but on a grander scale).

Love this replica of the capitol building

The princess loved  pretending that she was driving this little cart. 

Lots of fun little things to sit in and pretend, such as this old fashioned car replica.  Oh, look at the floor in this room… is that not to die for?  One of the recommended links is to an aritcle which states it was recycled from a gym in the Milwaukee

I LOVED this mural in the art studio section… Mostly made out of bottle caps with kiddos art work glazed into the bottom of them…

The paint wall kept their attention the longest…. water, paint what is there not to love.  (oh, except the boys white T-shirt when he was done.   What is it with the boy and white t’s -they are doomed the day he first wears them!)  

This  mural is found by the elevator on the roof top garden.

The boy looking down at the street from the roof top.

The roof top class room area:

The roof top garden was my favorite area:

The final highlight was this water sculpture/exhibit where columns of water will shoot/balance balls into the wire holders eventually moving them to the center down a swirling column of water.  Water and kids seems like a winning exhibit.

Click here for more information concerning The Madison Children’s Museum.

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In a Garden

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“God breathes and the beauty of nature is revealed,

You are His most beautiful creation &

I am left breathless.”

Author: s. brown

Pictures are unedited – I love the way they turned out, I have no idea what setting the camera was, but I love the soft gauzy feeling they have as well as the sun in them.

Back to School

Wow, this is my 150th post. Shocking too me!  I am getting more comfortable understanding how to do things with this little blog of mine.    To the point that it is sort of fun vs. a learning experience every time I try to post something.  Up till last week I have been creating every post in HTML and did not have the visual editor on.  Man it is so much easier with the visual editor.  I still have a LOT to learn though!

So anyway, to get back to the post at hand.  It was a back to school week this past week.  We survived and the kiddos actually made it to school on the bus 2 out of 3 days.  Each day they were able to eat breakfast not being too rushed as well.  One week down, too, too many more weeks to go.

Wednesday we were able to wake up in time, groggily, to get dressed and me to make a pancake and sausage breakfast for the kiddos.  Here they are enjoying a chocolate milk cheer to the new school year.

The princess wore a Gymboree Whale Dress and her light pink croc shoes. (Crocs are quite popular with the kiddos at my house). Her new backpack is from Gap Kids.

The reason why we went with a Gap Kids backpack for princess this year is that the boy has been using his for 4 years now, daily, and it still is not showing signs of wear. The princess’ backpacks have been lucky to last 6 months. His shirt was found at Gap Kids as well. Both of the kiddsos ready for school.  Do you know how hard it is for kiddos to stand with their hands at their sides and smile?

Here comes the bus!  Yippee!  The kids actually caught the bus once this year….last year after Christmas break we seemed to need that extra 10 minutes every day and the ended up missing the bus more than not.

Bye kiddos!  Hope you have a great day and a great school year…. me, I was off to the gym!  (one month of not working out. Boy, was I sore the next day!)

I dreamed I stood in a studio and watched two sculptors there, The clay they used was a young child’s mind, and they fashioned it with care One was a teacher, the tools he used were books, music, and art; One was a parent, who worked with a guiding hand, and a gentle, loving heart. Day after day the teacher toiled, with a touch that was deft and sure While the parent labored by her side and polished and smoothed it o’er. And then at last their task was done, They were proud of what they had wrought, for the things they had molded into the child could never be sold or bought. And each agreed they would have failed if he had worked alone, For behind the teacher stood the school and behind the parent, the home.    – Author unknown

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Pirate’s Cove Fun Center

After our wonderful game of golf and a bit of lunch at the kiddos favorite fast food restaurant, McDonald’s, we went back to Pirate’s Cove to enjoy their Fun Land.

It was pretty deserted and we were there during the hottest part of the day.  The jumping pillow was pretty hot and we needed to wear socks in order to enjoy jumping on it.   The kids did enjoy the high jump bouncer… which basically was a trampoline with basketball hoops on each end.   We pretty much just used it as a trampoline.

After playing on those two items for a while we went down to the pedal car track.  The pedal cars could go pretty fast and all of us were having a pretty good time until CRASH.  Hubby in trying to avoid the boy locked the brakes up and his car rolled.  I did not see the accident but Josh let us know about it right away.  In the end we were lucky that it was not more serious.  Other than being sore the scratches did not go very deep and the red on top is mostly blood blisters the skin was not punctured.  It is healing up pretty quickly too.  When I first arrived at the accident scene he was laying on the ground with his t-shirt still hooked around a door hinge to a tunnel you drive through.  I did not see the injury right away because the area of his back that got scratched was not where the hole in the shirt was at.  I lifted the pedal car off of him and and made sure he did not have a head injury.  By then the people who worked there had came down to the track to see how bad an accident it was and brought their first aid kit to the scene.

Hubby’s quote was this is what happens when a 40 something year old tries to act like a kid!

So we had a great time and luckily the accident happened on our last day there.

Home sweet home after that and to some fun relaxed days here such as staying in our PJ’s so far all day (except for hubby man – he is doing the yard work) and playing with Play-Doh.  At least that is what the kiddos are up to, I am making sure we have purchased all the back to school supplies and organizing them to get ready to take in to the meet the teacher night coming up this week.

Maybe we will go from our PJ’s to our swim suits soon but right now everyone is having fun chillin’.

Hubby was taking a video at the time of the crash, but he still needs to edit it, once he does I will add it to the blog.

Have you ever been injured while on vacation?

Hope everyone is having a safe yet fun weekend!