Tasty!

Jules loves to chat and “Tasty” has become her favorite word. She even had me convinced that her bubbles tasted good.

She is also acting like a 3 year old! Today she hopped up in my chair so I let her sit there and eat part of her lunch. Tasty!

 

 

 

TASTY! Enjoying a home-made apple and blueberry popsicle.

The fun we have

I am a fan of buying from small business and really try to purchase from Work at Home Moms when ever possible. Most of these people have Facebook fan pages and I like to thank them and share photos with them when I can. I have my own FB page and really appreciate when fan post photos so I like to pass it on.
I wanted to share a few of the photos with you.
The first is from a woman who hand makes these
beautiful animals. I believe she knits ( can’t say for sure). I bid on this on an auction she hosted so I got a great deal. The downside it that it took almost 2 months to get, I planned on putting it in Julia’s Easter basket but Ms Kitty arrive just today. She helped Julia do the dishes after out morning making granola bars.

The next is from a great store Lu and Ed. I really want to get Julia one of their Mon-Stors ( super cute). The owner of the shop was having a give-away and I won this for Jules. I wanted to make sure to thank her so I sent her this email. Side note: He arrived packed in a microwave popcorn box, hence the Orville reference.

"Mester Trouble arrived today! He was a little stressed from his trip, he kept saying,  "Orville was in his personal space" Not sure what that was all about. We brought him outside to show him his new neighborhood and made sure to point out any kids that might treat him like a football. We encouraged him to get an adult if that happens. He still seemed bummed, maybe we should have held off on warning him about the football thing, we have never had a monster live with us, beginners mistake! My daughter offered to give him some hugs, that got him a little better. Once that didn't work she tried her next plan of attack, tickle his booty! Not sure why tickling a monsters booty works but it sure helped, he seemed in much better spirits. Finally, we realized he just needed some coffee and presto--ready to get into some trouble!


Thanks so much for sending him to live with us, we promise to take good care of him."

Lastly is from a great shop that made Juices paci-catcher ages ago. We had been using snack-traps or "food flingers" (what I think of them as). They don’t really do much. She would put her hand in there and pull it out and lots of stuff would fly out as well, causing a huge mess in the van. We decided that getting her snack bags would be far better and she loves them!. This one has garden gnomes on them, she points and roars at them.

I am not doing this to advertise, just sharing the funny photos. We are a thrifty family but also know there is value in purchasing well made items. I was surprised to find it was far cheaper to purchase these bags from Mada’s Place than to get them on Amazon, trust me, I did lots of research!

Mama and Ruby's Easter Egg Hunt

Please check out Mama and Ruby's Easter Egg Hunt! It was fun to find all the eggs and I am hoping to score a sweet prize. I have found lots of great products by searching. Check it out!

$2.47 of pure fun

Unconventional? Yes. Fun? Julia thinks so! We wanted to have a fun sandbox for Julia to play in when we were all chilling on the deck. We thought about a large tote type container and I remembered we had one under our bed with useless stuff it it. Stuff that could easily be thrown in a closet. So we grabbed some sand at Menards and made a sandbox!

 

“Sand is tasty!”

Baby Sam

Julia and I went to the Thrift store and she found a new baby. We decided to call him baby Sam, who said all babies are girls?


We gave baby Sam a bath and let him work on his tan on the deck

She decided to show her tender side by picking him up off the towel and flinging him on to the jagged rocks.

I told her that wasn’t very nice and she decided to retrieve him

Baby Sam still needs some clothes, did you know that Target sells doll clothes but I could only find dresses? uugh. I grabbed a premie onsie at the thrift store I will attempts to make it fit him.

More Granola Mess

Julia loves our homemade granola bars, she really loves licking the honey covered spoons and spatulas after we are all done.

 

To keep her busy while I mix and press the bars, I put some of the mix in the measuring cups for her to eat, it makes a nice baby beard.

I think we finally got all the honey our of her hair and off her cheeks.

Easter Bunny Prep

I decided to do a dry run with Julia Easter egg hunt outfit. I had thought of putting her in a dress but Chris said the forecast calls for colder temps. We took these right before her nap so she HAD to have her pacifier. I think she will be cute and warm. The flower on her shirt is a pin I made, it can easily be put on a coat if needed.

If you look to the left, you will see her Easter skirt, she will most likely wear that with the top on Easter Sunday. Poor kid, she was tired.

Such a big girl, she was helping comb her hair