(Almost) Wordless Wednesday - Painting with pudding

Vanilla pudding + food coloring = inexpensive finger painting fun.  This was our first experience painting with pudding.  It was very easy to make, it was safe to eat and easy to clean up. My daughter was very reserved, not sure about eating it and was she ever one serious pudding painter.  I'll admit I got in on the painting too, enjoyed licking my fingers off to change colors and I really wanted to go crazy painting on LeAnne but didn't think I should freak her out & I wasn't dressed for her to paint on me. Next time time... I highly recommend and we will do this craft again!  

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Finger painting with vanilla pudding is  YUMMY!!

One serious pudding painter at work

Tada! See my master pieces! :-)  

Music to my ears...

Good Morning!! It's Wordless Wednesday and I have not taken a single photo since last week! (gasp!) I've thought a lot about pictures I want to take, thought many times about getting up to get my camera while John's folks were here but it just didn't happen.  I went to the doctor last week for a variety of things and left with many follow up appointments with other specialists. No worries, as health goes I have no major problems, just a few minor things that need taken care of and a lot of preventative things.  One of these things are some plantar warts, I though were corns on my foot and have neglected for way too long. Anyway I went last Thursday morning to have them looked at by a dermatologist. He froze a few and put some blister juice (his technical terms) on a few others.  I am on the mend but I've been doing my fair share of hobbling around. The end results will be good but in the mean time all I can say is OUCH! Hence no pictures today. 

We had a very nice time with John's folks!  It is always nice when they come to visit.  I especially loved watching LeAnne warm up to them a lot this time!  Her Grampy could do no wrong and she couldn't wait to show him everything.  She also had her fair share of cuddle time with Grammy who says she's her favorite 2 year old grand-daughter. :-) She enjoyed baking cookies with Grammy too! Yummy!  Since they left she's been asking about them and we hope to get down to see them very soon.

I know I've said it before and I'll say it again but I can't believe how quickly LeAnne is changing.  She's growing up right before my eyes.  It seems like just yesterday I was wondering if she'd ever talk and on our way into town to do errands yesterday she was singing along to some of he bible action songs.  Up until yesterday she has only been singing two songs ABC's & Twinkle Twinkle Little Star so both daddy & I were shocked to hear her singing along with her CD.  It was absolutely priceless!  :-) 

I love being our little girl's mama!  It is such a blessing to be home with her in the summer.  Of course I wish it would be a full time gig but for now it can't so I am focusing on what I have instead of what just can't be at the moment.  We continue to work on a letter a week, we are on the letter D this week.  Our darling daughter had been discovering D sounds like in duck, dog, dancing, dig, donkey, dinner, and so on. Today we are going to paint made with vanilla pudding & food coloring. I WILL take pictures and post them this week. :-) 

I must sign off and go make my guys lunch. It's been great to have him home for 7 days.  I appreciate how well he takes care of his family!  He plays an active role in every aspect of our lives and is an amazing leader, helper, and encourager. I love watching his whole face light up when LeAnne does something precious.  :-) 

Thank-you Lord for blessing our lives!!  Thank-you for all you provide for our family! :-)

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday - B is for Butterfly...

LeAnne & I have been having a blast learning about her letters & numbers this summer.  She is very hungry to learn & catches on so quickly.  At the rate she's going I figure she is going to read before she is potty trained, then she can read about potty training.

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Auntie Kym found her this Butterfly!

Not so wordless Wednesday - Speesees Dress

Big Thank-you to Nina, an awesome blogger who's saving the sanity of moms & dads, one blog at a time! Please check out her blog Playground for Parents. It was on her blog that I won this adorable Speesees Dress.  Thank-you to Speesees for sponsoring the giveaway.  I have been so excited for LeAnne to wear this dress. It is beautifully made with organic cotton, is pigment and pvc-free prints, has nickel-free snaps, no formaldehyde,no dioxin and low impact dyes.  I LOVE the vibrant colors and the Prance Hankey horse pattern is fun!

 

She already loves clothes, make up & all things girly!  This day she grabbed my foundation brush  & was doing what mama does. One night she saw me putting on lotion with sparkles so I put some on her and now every night she says "sprinkles mama", then once she has her sprinkle lotion on she comes out to show daddy.

and last but  not least here is a video of our girl singing her ABC's & Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.



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The Children’s Place Gift Card Giveaway (Ends 7/15)

The Children’s Place is one of my favorite kids clothing stores! They have a large selection and their clothes are well made! Not to mention, affordable! While I've never shopped there LeAnne has some really nice Hand me downs from her Cousin Emma that came from Children's Place. :-)   I had to blog about this contest because I'd LOVE to buy some clothes from Children's Place for our precious princess!

The Children’s Place is giving TWO lucky Serendipity Mommy blog readers a $25 gift card!! Its almost that time of year again to start school shopping, so a $25 savings is always sweet!

Sweepstakes Hosted At: Serendipity Mom
Prize: $25 Gift Card to The Children’s Place
Entry Method: Comment (extra entries available)
Giveaway End Date: Contest ends July 15 Eligibility: US Only

 

 This adorable top is a Children's Place hand me down from cousin Emma. :-)

Hello Sunshine - You make our days NICE & warm!

"That beautiful season the Summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
-   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Now this is what I am talking about, Summer has arrived!  It's been in the high 90's, low 100's the last few days. This next week I will try to take some pictures of the beautiful landscapes around us.  The wheat is beginning to turn and it's so pretty! The rain has caused the farmers quite a bit of grief and kept the crop dusters very busy.  LeAnne is very happy playing in her pretty purple pool!  When we walk outside she say's "Hello Sunshine"!  Today after we got back from pickin raspberries on the farm I sat with my feel in her pool and actually read a browsed a whole magazine cover to cover. It was very relaxing. When I look back at the previous 2 summers it's amazing to see how much our girl has grown up.  She is so hungry to  learn her numbers and letters right now. She is always identifying letters and numbers everywhere we go and now she has been saying a word like tub and wants to know what letter it's associated with. It's amazing and fun. This week we did some fun coloring projects about the letter A.  I am excited next week to work with letter B. We might just have to bake our own break, bounce lots of balls and buy a balloon.  The only cartoon she asks for on a regular basis now is a PBS show called Word World (Click on link to see a sneak peak).  Well here are some pictures and videos of our beautiful busy little girl! Today we are spending the day with Grandma Marcia for her birthday & then heading down to the Tucanon Valley to have dinner & a yummy berry smoothie cheese cake for dessert to celebrate Grandma. :-)

Ridding Nubby at the farm!
















She had to have her hair down to play in the pool yesterday. :-)

She loves to water the plants!

Having a blast in her pool! This girl LOVES water!
She was waving to you but I didn't quite get the shot in time.

In this video below I was trying to get her to say "I busy", it's so cute, she said it but you'd have to turn your volume WAY up to hear it! :-)



Thank-you so much Auntie Katie for the adorable outfit, bracelet and Jewelry! LeAnne was so excited!

Daddy's handwork

4th of July weekend was a very productive one for John.  He planted some raspberries in our backyard, mowed our beautiful yard and painted our front door and the top of the garage a gorgeous red color.  LeAnne was there to help whenever she could be.  We really are very blessed that our guy loves yard work and takes great pride in his yard.  We get compliments all the time about how nice our house & yard looks.  Great work honey!!