Baby Bird

Yesterday the boys found a baby bird in the neighbors yard, put it in a little laundry basket and brought it into the house.  Boys are just really nuts, or fun... depends on how you look at it.   They also said that they fed it a worm (they had dug some up the other day). 

Oh the joy of living in a house of boys.

marble painting

E and I did this activity the other day (Paint a Marbled Heat Card), and it was loads of fun (no pics of that though).  So when B had to make a valentines box for his valentimes to be put in, I thought this would be a great way to do it.

to marble paint, you put your paper in a pan or something with sides ( we used a texas sheet pan, and a avon box lid)  then you dip your marbles in the paint, put them in your container and tilt your container so they roll around.  We did the same thing the second time, only we used heart cut outs. We then glued the full sheets to the cereal box, and glued the hearts over that (we also had some hearts that had no paint on them)

It came out pretty neat.  For better instructions click the link though..

even N did a shake or two!!

I recently realized that I had neglected in posting pictures of halloween. so here they are. Sorry they are sideways,, I am having issues with my computer, and it won't let me flip them

some video's

B & E playing outside. I was in the sunroom watching them play ball

N playing

summer time fun

so we have been pretty busy here. the boys had swimming lessons last week. really only three days because of the rain. the boys didn't take to it so well. but since then we have been swimmng in the new pool at our house (a family pool like at the deiters fest) and we also have gone to uncle d's and over to visit our friends carol and mary at there pool. now the boys are getting more use to the water and are getting a little more independent. today with rings they were swimming all over the pool at carol and mary's.
sorry about the pix being sideways, it wouldn't let me move them.

E in his ring at carol and mary's

E floating

n

B swimming

n sitting in the family pool we bought. it is really to deep for him when full, but when i was blowing it up i put a little bit of water in it and let him crawl around. he loved it. he actually got to swim in it before his brothers.

Later

Jessie

fathers day

so this is what scott is getting for fathers day. we got a picture frame for x-mas for 3 wallets. so we did this the other day, and i printed them out and put them in the frame. I will also have the boys color some cards for him.

so if you don't have anything yet, and are looking for something, cute, and inexpensive, i would try this.

what it took

cardboard boxes.
scissors
white paint
blue sheet
children (lol)

i just cut out the letters out of my avon boxes. draped the sheet over the side of my couch and snapped a bunch of pictures. i had matted photo papper so that didn't cost me anything.

i was going to get a 8x10. cvs had a code for a free one, but i couldn't get it to work. it sucks to becuase i was going to hang it in my room. oh well, i may try again latter.

i may post some more of the pix later

have a great day

jessie