Adventures in La La Land

1. I volunteered to work in VBS this year. It's my first year of being a stay at home mom, and being available to do it every day. I got assigned to the preschool room, where Lucy is, and I knew she would love it. I was, admittedly, worried about Lena - with good reason. The first day, she lasted about 45 minutes, then screamed so psychotically, the nursery workers came and found me. I ended up carrying her in the Bjorn the rest of the day. (Ow.) On Tuesday, Lena did really well! But Lucy was an absolute wreck. She didn't want to do any of the activities or crafts. She literally stood by me crying almost the entire time. At the end of the day, I quit. Haha. I told the head teacher that it was too much for my girls, and that I wasn't coming back. Sigh. Maybe next year. 2. When I went back and read Lucy's 6 month update this week, I realized she was sitting up by this age. I never even give Lena the opportunity to sit by herself, so decided we should start working on th...

Lucy found some jewels in the craft stash the other day, so we had fun making a Q Queen. Then I found the idea for a quilt q  . Lucy doesn't even know what a quilt is, so I had to teach her. Haha. Fortunately, my dad has a plethora of odd books all over this house, and we found one about quilts ! Then I got out the scrapbooking paper, let her choose which ones she wanted, and cut them into squares for her. She loved gluing each piece to the paper.  We even found some stickers to spell out "Q is for Quilt." 

We crossed another thing off our bucket list today - the nature scavenger hunt. It's an absolutely gorgeous day, the girls took short naps, and we were looking for something to do. I've seen lots of free printable hunts on pinterest, but I took the easy way out and just hand-wrote some basic stuff. I'm quite the artist, eh? With her bucket and list - ready to go! The adventurers. This pic is not altered. Look at those perfect clouds and gorgeous sky! 1. On the hunt. 2. Smelling mint. 3. There's a bug in the pool! 4. Checking things off the list. The other hunters. 

My Lena-Bean is 6 months old today! That doesn't really seem possible! But alas, it is. So here is the 6 month update: Routine I went back and read Lucy's 6 month update . She was on a much more predictable schedule than Lena is. 2nd child syndrome, I guess.  Lena is an early bird. I have no idea where she gets that from. But she's usually up before 7:00 am. I've started keeping a basket of toys next to my bed, so I can put them in the pack n' play with her in the morning and catch a few more minutes of sleep. Haha. She's still nursing every 3 hours. She pretty consistently nurses on both sides now (although the right side produces much more), but she's still pretty quick. She's incredibly easily distracted. I've started turning the TV on for Lucy downstairs and taking Lena upstairs to feed her in silence. She's generally awake for 1.5-2 hours between naps. You never know how long she's going to sleep. It could be an hour. It coul...

Insane day. I've got 57 minutes to get this up and still legitimately call it The Saturday 7. Time to get crack-a-lackin'. 1. We had a heat wave this week. I missed our old house and its central AC a little bit. Haha. But I sure did enjoy having a pool in our backyard! 2. Lucy and I worked on the letter P this week. I did a few activities intentionally focused on P, but as you'll see, much of our week involved the letter P! On Monday, we hosted a P ool P arty. It wasn't much of a party. I just invited some of Lucy's friends over to swim. No games or activities or anything. Just the pool and some snacks. Our other planned "P" activities included  p ainting a p icture of P inkalicious and reading  If You Give a P ig a P ancake. We never actually got around to making pancakes like I wanted to. It was just too hot. 3. On Thursday, we went to Kelly's house for a p laydate with P resley. (Although that was really just a guise to spend the day in ...

Credit for this idea goes to my friend, Kelly. We went to her house during "P" week and she whipped up this craft for the girls. She gave the girls a coffee filter and let them color it with markers. Then they squirted the filter with water, let it dry, and dotted it with their finger prints. Kelly cut out a peacock body, feet, and a beak, and let them go to town with the glue. Thanks, Kelly, for the great craft!

1. Big news everyone :Lena made the transition from the Rock n' Play to the Pack n' Play this week! It actually went remarkably well. I took the cover off the rock n' play and laid it down in the pack n' play to make the transition a little easier. The first day, I rocked her to sleep and laid her down, and she stayed asleep! There was much rejoicing. The problem is, I've gotten into the habit of rocking her to sleep, and she doesn't go to sleep any other way. And it has to be me. She won't let anyone else rock her to sleep. Sigh. This morning, I finally decided she was going to cry it out. It's ridiculous that she'll fall sleep in my arms, but not her bed. She cried  screamed for 40 minutes, then finally went to sleep. 2. We crossed something else off our Summer Bucket List this week: go to the Zoo! Justin has Friday's off, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so we spontaneously decided to take the girls to the zoo. It was hot, so the animals w...

1. We're making progress on the summer bucket list. Last Saturday we went to a Whitecaps' game. Lucy loved it - mostly because we went with a group and got tons of free food and little trinkets: bubbles and glow sticks and cookies galore! My mom and sisters were there, so I don't think I watched a single minute of the game, but we had a blast. As we were leaving, Lucy said, "We should do that again someday!" Haha. On the morning of Independence Day, Justin took Lucy fishing. This is how it went: Lol - she fell in the water and was not a happy camper.  2 events crossed off the bucket list! 2. I pinned an article on Pinterest this week from a couple who have gone on a weekly date night every week of their 8 year marriage. The article was a bunch of creative date ideas. The people obviously have money, but I liked a lot of their ideas. Anyway, she linked to some other blogs and got me looking at all these lists of date ideas (obviously written by women). So ...