No Spazzing around me

So tonight a little funny happened...

Peter and I were sitting on the couch each with a laptop on our laps.  I was watching a show and he was surfing the web.   Out of the corner of my eye I saw something big fall off my shoulder.  I jumped a little bit, though did not leave the couch, we'll call it a spaz.  Peter leaps off the couch throwing his laptop on the floor.  I'm busting up laughing at myself as I realize what fell off my shoulder was just my curly hair (you know really big scary looking thing).  Then I can't stop laughing at Peter.  Peter announces that I'm not allowed to spaz while sitting next to him, because if I spaz, the creature might land on him.  He also says he might need a new laptop in the near future if I keep doing that.

Right before this happened Peter had asked me if my show was making me cry.  It wasn't I was just rubbing my eye.  Then after this happened, I was laughing so hard that I was crying.

Week 3 crafts and Sailing Adventure

Clothespin caterpillars are easy and fun

Race car and TP octopus

We made a lot of popsicle stick dragonflies

 Chloe LOVES strawberries and boysenberries from the garden and I'm really good at washing her clothes promptly afterwards.

Friday we had Kirk and Heidi over to play for the day.  Then Friday night Mary dropped 4/5 of her kids off with Sean and we kept Claire until Sunday afternoon.  Saturday Sean, Kirk, Heidi, Connor and Peter went sailing.  Claire and I worked on some crafts and went and bought some more stones to make bugs out of.  We had a great time.  We waited for Connor to get back to work on the stones, so we have added three more of the ladybug/bee/turtle stones to our front doorstep.

 Connor, Heidi and Sean

 Connor and Daddy

They saw a ton of dolphins and some whales as well.  They had a blast!  Connor couldn't stop talking about the boat that he went on and all the cool things he saw.

A Craft a Day Week 2

This week's fun craft projects started out Monday with making two-a fun turtle and some birds.  The tail feathers for the bird were more challenging than I was expecting.  Connor lost interest with the tail feathers, but enjoyed putting the bird together.  I did two birds with tail feathers and then I gave up too.  With or without the feathers they turned out pretty cute.

So simple-just an empty fruit cup, paint, cardstock and googly eyes...all of which we had.

I got this pattern out of a craft book I borrowed from the library.

Generally we work on projects while Chloe takes her morning nap, but sometimes we're too excited and just have to get busy right after breakfast.  I placed her bowl of cereal on the table to get some supplies ready, she helped herself.

On Wednesday this super cool cricut cartridge arrived in the mail (beep beep).  Connor and I got busy making these.  He held the instruction booklet and repeatedly told me which vehicles we hadn't made yet.  There will likely be more made this week.  Wednesday we cut all the pieces out and then Thursday we put them together after we made a quick trip out for some glue sticks.

Friday he painted a race car and we attempted to make flower paint prints with the end of some romaine lettuce.

Saturday we went to the farmers market in Poway and had a great time.  We came home with a lot of fruit and a fun flower pinwheel thing for our garden.  Then we headed out to the wild animal park where we met up with cousins and family visiting from Michigan.  We had a great time.  Then we went to Sean and Amy's for dinner.  It was a big party-14 children and 10 adults. 

A craft a day

While on maternity leave I found doing crafts with Connor to be a fun mommy and me time for Connor.  Now that school is out, we're doing a craft a day for the summer.  As soon as I put Chloe down for a nap today, Connor said, "Can we do an art project now?"  He loves these projects!  Last week's projects:
Monday-stained glass airplane 
Tuesday- foam stickers on foam stars
Wednesday- Paper plate frog
Thursday- we went to The Wave with cousins and therefore did not do an art project.
Friday-Fourth of July!  Daddy didn't have to go to work, so we played and went to a BBQ and watched fireworks.

Stay tuned for this week's projects...today we did two!