Easter Crafts

We've been doing a number of Easter crafts around here lately. So far my favorite one has been constructing a foam bunny house. Landon was so excited about this one. He picked the kit out at the store and couldn't wait for us to put it together. We arrived home from the store rather late in the afternoon so I promised Landon that we would make it first thing in the morning. I should have known that Landon was going to wake up with the sun and bring the kit into my bed. He never forgets a thing! I made good on my promise and we constructed the bunny house first thing this morning. 

 

 

 

 

Christmas 2011

It's been a while. I don't even know where to begin with catching up. I guess I will start with a couple of Christmas pictures. The above picture is the gift that Landon made for me with some help from his Aunt Jenn. Christmas decorating was very simple this year. Most decorations were handmade. Landon was at the perfect age this year to really enjoy making Christmas decorations. I think Landon's favorite thing to do was to cover pinecones in glitter. We then hung those pinecones from the hallway entrance. His second favorite decoration was the ribbon that I put on the front door. I think it was his favorite because he enjoyed tearing it down day after day!

We made some cinnamon ornaments as well, which Landon also had a blast doing. I was a little paranoid because I was afraid of him rubbing cinnamon in his eyes, but we came out unscathed and had rather cute ornaments to show for it.

 We also did different arts and crafts throughtout the month of December as well. Out of all of the different little projects that Landon made I think these three were my favorites.

One of my favorite pictures of Landon from Christmas wasn't even on Christmas day. It was from Christmas Eve when we set out milk and cookies for Santa. Landon snuck a bite of Santas's cookie and I caught him doing so while taking a picture. His guilty smile is priceless!

All in all Christmas was great. Landon received everything that he had on his Christmas list. A few things have already broken or never worked from the beginning. We have a few exchanges to do yet at the North Pole, but Landon has been getting plenty of use out of his presents so far, especially his skateboard and his Hotwheels wall track.

Lotion Mayhem

 When you give a child an inch, they take a mile....

This mess that Landon got himself into reminded me of this post. Someone really should be watching this kid during the day! This time Landon upgraded from markers and got himself into a much harder to clean mess. He managed to get almost an entire container of lotion all over his body. Even after being bathed he was still incredibly oily. I decided to keep him busy the remainder of the evening and he made a pumpkin. 

Zebras!

I had an opportunity to take Landon to a preschool class at the zoo. He had a blast. The topic of the day was zebras. Landon even learned a little song that he still sings two weeks later! They couldn't fit a zebra into the classroom so they had two smaller animals for show and tell. Some African snake of some sort. I'm fuzzy on the details because I am trying to block out the image of a snake being within inches of me! Landon actually touched the snake, but I passed.

They then brought out a black and white rabbit for the kids to touch as well. Landon started sneezing afterwards so I guess there will never be any pet rabbits in our house.

I think we both liked the craft portion the best. Landon and I are always doing little art projects at home so we were equally excited to be making a bobble head zebra. 

 

B is for Buttons

I realized that I never shared Landon's video of him learning the letter "B". It is a long video, about ten minutes, but he's so cute that I couldn't stop taping! At the end of the video Landon even tried recording me. I love our morning craft time together. I try to find something hands on for us to do together every morning. It's how I like to fill the gap between breakfast and lunch- the time when Landon has already exhausted his morning tv limit and when the toys have all been cleaned up so I'm wanting to keep it that way!

There was plenty of light shining into the room this morning while we were doing this. I didn't think it was necessary to turn on the dining room light. For some reason the video is dark. I guess I should have turned on the light after all. Oh well. It's still a cute memory of craft time with Landon.