139/365

Father's Day Card

The kids both put their hand prints in the card, one on each side: Mika on the left and Jack on the right.

Across the top we wrote:

Dear Dad we love you because, and then the kids came up with reasons why. Mika's reasons were written on the side with her hand:

- you tickle me
- make me laugh
- hold me up high

- play with me in the sand

- build lego castles with me

... and Jack's on the side with his hand:

- you help me with Pokemon

- you play video games with me

- you protect me

- you teach me things I need to know

- you tickle me; help me laugh

For the outside I cut out three circles for the letters DAD, and then we used the cutouts for 3 coupons. The coupons are for:
- a kiss
- pick a movie for movie night
- add a $100 to a Dream PC fund

I hope he likes it :)

135/365: Cupcake toppers

June 2nd: Here we go! Mika's birthday party is starting to come together, we have the invitations and most of the paper items designed. These will be the cupcake toppers...

In other news, we came home today to the table fully set and dinner made... all by Jack :) Granted, he made scrambled eggs (6) so some additions had to be made in order to feed us... but still, the kid made dinner :D

131/365: Cars

May 28th: I just took these from Mika, she's supposed to be sleeping but she was sitting on her bed playing with these. She claimed them a while back in Jack's room and since Jack is getting a little too old to find them interesting he gave them up willingly.

They are definitely one of her favorite, go to toys...

89/365: Inspiration

This photo wasn't taken so much for the azaleas as it was for ideas.

I am on an idea hunt for Mika's 3rd Birthday Party. Her birthday isn't until end of July but I have to churn things in my head for a month or two, and then when I have it all worked out I can actually make the stuff fairly quickly.

I fell in love with this color, I know I want strong colors for this party: lime green and powerful dark pink, orange and red. Did I mention it will be a bug party?

Mika's crazy for all things animal but I thought narrowing it down a little will work better so it's a bug party: D Lady bugs, butterflies, dragon flies you name it.... Ideas I have so far:
- dessert and regular food table will be under trees next to each other so we can hang pom poms and big breezy butterflies above....
- mason jars!
- pink and green lemonade, if you have ideas on how to make them be that color please let me know...
- desserts: sugar cookies and raspberry ice cream for ice cream sandwiches, cupcakes, mini cheesecakes with fresh fruits....
- regular food: mini sausages, puff pastry maybe, carrots, cucumbers, cheese sticks...
- felt crowns for all the kids
- big felt flowers all around the yard
- felt bugs for goodie bags
- bug coloring pages with crayons
- chalks (I hope the $ store has these cheap)
- bubbles!!! ($ store again)

I will have to stop by the $ store one day next week, they should have plenty of Easter merchandise I could use for this.

Please let me know if you guys have any ideas.

62/365

Grocery shopping today, not terribly interesting I know :)

These little cheeses are kids' favorite, they go through them like crazy...