We have been playing with Reese’s birthday gifts all last night and all day today. We of course love them all, but I wanted to share one gift that is different and lots of fun…
SKY HIGH SCOOPS! It is from Target and all four of us love to play it. You evenly distribute plastic ice scream scoops. The object is to get all your scoops stacked on the ice cream bowl. If any scoops fall on your turn you have to put those back in your stack. It is electronic and tells the player how many and what color to stack. Therefore they have to count and recognize colors while using hand eye coordination.
If you have a 2-4 year old I really recommend this game! I haven’t gotten any pictures of us playing (we were having too much fun to pause for the camera) but here is a YouTube video created by the distributor.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LearningResourcesInc#p/search/0/HUOZe7C0aGU
Today we celebrated Reese’s second birthday! Reese requested a princess party and I was pleased with how much Reese seem to enjoy herself considering she gets shy in big crowds.
The guests dressed up like a prince or princess if they pleased. I bought Reese a Tiana costume during the Halloween sales, well when she saw that I owned a Snow White costume she thought it most appropriate to be Snow White as well.
The above photo shows us making the tutus which was a ‘craft’ for all to enjoy. The boys had BK crowns to adorn with star stickers.
The princess had quite the spread for her party: ring sub sandwiches, flower shaped PB sandwiches, edible princess wands, jello jigglers, fruit and veggie trays, and of course a princess castle cake.
Reese carried around a peanut butter sandwich for a while and spent the whole time trying to eat all the sprinkles out of the center.
I love these pictures below, because they show her beauty inside and out!
Well how old is Reese turning? 1? 2? 5?
Happy Birthday my sweet sweet Reesey Poo! I hope all your wishes and dreams come true this year!
I put Reese down for her nap around 1 today. I checked her on the video monitor around 2. Expecting to see a sleeping girl in the monitor, I was shocked to see an empty crib. I ran to her room to see if she was okay since she obviously climbed out and I hadn’t heard from her. Well I came upon a locked door. When I got the key and opened the door, there stood my sweet girl holding her Curious George and her two pacis, as proud as she could be at her feat. How should a mother react to this new behavior? Cracking up hysterically, because that is all I could do.
So I kindly put her back in her crib and watched on the video monitor again to see if this was going to be a repeat behavior. Sure enough within 20 seconds she had her leg up and over the rail of the crib.
Well part of our Christmas gifts for the girls is new beds and bedding. Brady was going to move up into a full size bed and Reese was going to get the toddler bed Brady is currently in. Well necessity has it that the girls moved up beds this afternoon. The new fun bedding is still on hold though.
I think Brady was a lot more excited about this new sleeping situation then Reese.
Tonight Reese stayed in her bed for about a minute, then opened her door came out to me and said “all done mommy.” SO I sat in there with her for 20 minutes while she fell asleep. Then I kissed her sweet little hand whisper good night without her stirring at all. Then when I shut her door, I heard her say a few words, and I held my breath! About a minute later she was back asleep. Brady is currently sleeping with her feet on her pillow and head at the feet. I don’t think she knows what to do with all that bed!
Tonight is the first night in about 3 and a half years that I don’t have a ‘baby’ in a crib! They are growing up on me, and I am loving every minute of it!
I know I know, I am late on posting about Thanksgiving, but I have been busy prepping for Reese’s 2nd birthday party that is happening this weekend. But I wanted to share how awesome it was to have such helpful little cookers on Turkey Day.
Prepping the Oreo Cake and then giving Daddy a sample! What kid doesn’t love smash Oreos!
Getting recipe items from pantry and fridge. The girls both really enjoyed this task.
Cleaning and shucking the veggies. Then tossing all the scraps.
This is the resulting spread…Doesn’t it make you want to go back a week and do it all again?
I am thankful for my little helpers. But I am also thankful that on this year, my first thanksgiving spent away from my parents and siblings, that I was able to have great friends visiting from VA. Thanks for visiting us Melisa, Rob, Colton and Reagan. I missed my family dearly, but really enjoyed have friends I love dearly by my side.
Lastly, here is a piece of artwork Brady made at preschool. I love that she put she is thankful for ‘butterflies’.
Brady played a CD yesterday that has the story of the Nutcracker being told with the music in the background. When it came on, she said “ballet music” and got very excited. Yet another reason why I should sign her up for ballet…ugh!
Here is her interpretation of the Nutcracker Ballet…
Yes, that was even Reese walking in mid-way and saying “cute”.
My friend, Tara, once did interviews of her older kids for her blog. I loved the post and so every once and a while I like to do the same.
Here is the most recent videos. I love the one of Reese especially because she has JUST learned (like the day before) to respond positively to a question with a head nod. I ask her favorite color, she says pink, I repeat it, then she tries to nod…LOVE IT! So you can she her thinking about how to move her head up and down.
