Cloud Dough

The other day while on Pinterest.com I found a recipe for Cloud Dough. All it is, is 8 cups flour and 1 cup baby oil. When they are mixed together it makes something with the texture of play dough, but the packing power of sand. I decided to make it for my kids and see how they liked it. They LOVED it! Good thing I did this little project outside because man did it ever get messy! It started out very clean but by the end they were covered!

So much fun! They mad pretend cakes, cookies and bread! Blair might have thought it was real cause I had to tell her not to eat it a few times.


Lukas and his "cake".
Starting to get messy!

Even more messy!
My first thought was to tell them to stop but they were having SO much fun! I figured it would wash out so why not let them have some fun!

At the end! They were covered! I may have made them take their clothes off and the front porch. Then it was straight into the tub to get clean! While they had lunch and watched a movie I was outside spraying the drive way off with the hose. It was a good time. Lukas is already asking if we can make cloud dough again. I think it will probably be a little while before we do this project again! :)

Creativity

Lukas asked me to keep the cereal boxes because he wanted to make something out of it. I didn't really think he was serious until he saw one in the trash and got mad! So he took it out and this is what he came up with. I have to say he is very creative. This was all his idea. He cut and glued everything. The only thing I did was cut the holes for the eyes.



Pretty smart little boy! It still cracks me up every time I see him wear it.

Our day!

Our day consisted of enjoying the sunshine in the front yard, while practicing our golf swing. My kids were into doing this for over an hour. It was great. Lukas was teaching Blair what Dan had taught him. It was the cutest!


Can she please stay little FOREVER?



Lukas has a pretty good golf swing. I think a complete set of his own golf clubs is on the Christmas or birthday list. Like father like son. I am sure they will have a ton of fun on the greens!

Year 2!

Today Lukas started his second year of preschool! He is so excited to go back to Miss Val's class, and to be going 3 days instead of two. If we are being honest I am so excited as well. Lukas is so social and has been a little bored since all his friends started school. He has been asking me about every 20 min every day when his friends will be home. I felt so bad for him. I also got sick of saying 5 more hours etc every 20 min! :) Needless to say he was excited to get back in the groove of school.



Sitting on the porch all ready to leave!
He chose a Bat man back pack this year! NO surprise there!
Showing me that he is 4 years old.
Standing on the porch getting ready to walk in for his first day.
They made these magnets. Attached was a note that said I made this especially for you so you can display all my beautiful art work this year. I thought it was such a cute idea. After school Lukas told me he had tons of fun. He also said how he was so glad to be able to go 3 days a week and he couldn't wait for his next preschool day. I was surprised though how little his class was. There was only 7 kids! She usually gets a few more so I am expecting it to get a little bigger. She said the Mon-Wend-Fri morning class is her smallest. I guess he will just get some more hands on teaching.

Frog

The other day Dan came home from work with a surprise! It was a FROG! I guess he found it hopping around the building (inside.) He thought the kids would enjoy seeing it and brought it home. The kids thought it was GREAT! We took them outside and showed it to them. We let it hop around and catch it. They each touched it. Then we let it loose in the flower bed. I am guessing it didn't survive. My kids kept going out to the flower bed looking for it.

2 and a half!

I can't believe it but in a bout a week Blair will be 2 and 1/2! She has grown so much in the last six months. She is talking up a storm and has the cutest little voice. She is so fun to play with, but is also super awesome about playing by herself when you need to get a few things done. She sleeps in her big girl bed and LOVES it! She goes to bed without a fight. Sometimes though she doesn't go right to sleep. She is known for singing to herself and her babies to sleep. She has been protesting nap times a little bit. Everyone once in a while she gets away without taking one. Usually though I stick her in her bed and as soon as I leave she is running around. I hear little pitter patter of feet. Then all of a sudden it is silent. I got up and check under the door (I refuse to open it cause who wants to wake a sleeping toddler!) and see her light on but she is passed out somewhere in her room on the floor. She can count to 20, and can count backwards from 10! We are working on her colors. I think she knows them but gets stuck on one color and says that color every single time you ask her what color something is for a few days. She loves shoes! She is always asking for a new pair. She is starting to form an opinion on clothes, shoes, hair bows etc. If she loves something she will scream in delight and say "I love it!" If she doesn't like it she says, "I don't like it mom!" She makes the funniest facial expressions. If you ever want to know what she is thinking you can tell by her face. She loves playing with her babies, but is also known to play bat man with Lukas. She is also always wanting to play tea party. She is finally getting interested in letting me read to her. I love reading books to my kids and am so glad she is finally sitting still and letting me read to her. She loves going to church but all during sacrament meeting she asks, "Time for toys yet mom?" She really is such a cute happy girl! Even if she is growing up too fast!

She LOVES her big brother! Even if they have been fighting a lot lately!
We bought these boots the other day. She loves them! She wanted to go outside and I told her to go get some shoes on. She came out wearing pink glitter boots with shorts!

She had to put on all 3 dress up tu tu's the other day! She wore them for a few hours too! So funny!
If it is one of the days she gets away with no nap she usually passes out on the floor around 7:30. This was one of those days!

Concussion

This little dude got a concussion a few days ago. I am still not quite sure how it happened. Lukas and Blair were playing in the T.V. room and I was on the computer. All of a sudden I heard a huge bang and Lukas crying. I rushed into where the kids were and Lukas was crying and clutching the back of his head. He said he fell on his head. I asked him if he hit it on any furniture. He told me no and that he had just hit it on the floor. I know that he and Blair were playing on a big over sized ball and I think he just rolled off of it and slammed onto the floor. Well he cried for a while and told me he wanted his dad. I laid him in bed by Dan where he promptly fell a sleep and took a nap. He woke up an hour and a half later crying that his head hurt really bad. I had him rest and he just kept crying. Then he wouldn't open his eyes and kept falling a sleep. He was also complaining that he couldn't see very well. I was getting a little worried and so I called my pediatrician. I spoke to the nurse and she had me make an appointment. She said if he got worse or threw up between now and his appointment to call back. About 20 min later his little friend knocked on the door wanting to play. Lukas didn't want to miss out on playing so he jumped up. He then walked four feet and promptly threw up on the floor. I called the nurse back and she said bring him right in. So I took Blair to the neighbors where she played till Dan's mom came and got her. (Thanks Bryan and Grandma for watching her!) We got right in and the Dr. came right in. He said all the symptoms pointed to a concussion and he wanted Lukas to have a cat scan done just in case it was serious. We took him to the hospital to get it done. He was so good and so brave. I was nervous that he would freak out and we would have to sedate him. We bribed him with Sweet Tooth Fairy cupcakes. That was the key he did wonderful!We were also so grateful when the Dr. called us and told us all was well. He said for Lukas to take it easy and avoid activities where he could hit his head again. The next day you wouldn't have even known that he had, had a concussion. He was back to his hyper fun loving self! I am so glad everything turned out okay. It was a little scary.