Sparkling pink sequined headband - CHECK!
Homemade superman cape - CHECK!
Thomas the Train jammies - CHECK!
Sly smile - CHECK!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Three cooks in the Kitchen
A few weeks ago I scored an awesome play kitchen for Jack on freecycle. If you don't already use freecycle - you need to! It's kind of like craigslist, but everything is 100% free. You can send out emails saying you're looking for something, or have something to get rid of. I've scored nearly new toddler rain boots ($20 at Target), an almost new pair of snowpants that Jack can use in 1-2 years, and now Jack's play kitchen!
J bone has LOVED to help me cook for months. It usually takes about 5 times as long to make the food, and 10 times as long to clean it up, but it's worth every second because it makes him so happy. I wanted to foster his love of cooking and encourage creativity, but there were two issues:
1) we don't have extra money for a play kitchen
2) we don't have extra money for a play kitchen
Er...I guess that is just 1 issue.
Anyhoo, I posted on freecycle that we were looking for a play kitchen. Withing 24 hours, someone responded that they had a wooden one that had been "rode hard and well loved, but it should clean up well". On MLK day, Jack and I drove out to the BFE portion of our county and picked it up. The little girl who had outgrown it came running out of her house with a huge bag of plastic food and said "he can have these too". SCORE! Freecycle isn't about bartering, but I did give them a fresh and still warm from the oven loaf of my bread as a thank you.
It stayed in Troy's truck for a few weeks, but finally this weekend we brought it upstairs after Jack went to bed and cleaned it up. "We" is a relative term because I made Troy do it all. We threw the plastic food in the dishwasher on sanitize. Troy covered the kitchen with a blanket, and we waited for Jack to wake up the next morning.
The kitchen was A HIT! And who cares that it's pink!
We've run in to a new way of teaching Jack about what constitutes "real food". I'm doing my best to make clear to him that an onion, banana, egg, and a corn cob are not the core ingredients of a successful birthday cake. You have to give the boy credit for creativity though! And hey, the dinosaurs LOVED it.
J bone has LOVED to help me cook for months. It usually takes about 5 times as long to make the food, and 10 times as long to clean it up, but it's worth every second because it makes him so happy. I wanted to foster his love of cooking and encourage creativity, but there were two issues:
1) we don't have extra money for a play kitchen
2) we don't have extra money for a play kitchen
Er...I guess that is just 1 issue.
Anyhoo, I posted on freecycle that we were looking for a play kitchen. Withing 24 hours, someone responded that they had a wooden one that had been "rode hard and well loved, but it should clean up well". On MLK day, Jack and I drove out to the BFE portion of our county and picked it up. The little girl who had outgrown it came running out of her house with a huge bag of plastic food and said "he can have these too". SCORE! Freecycle isn't about bartering, but I did give them a fresh and still warm from the oven loaf of my bread as a thank you.
It stayed in Troy's truck for a few weeks, but finally this weekend we brought it upstairs after Jack went to bed and cleaned it up. "We" is a relative term because I made Troy do it all. We threw the plastic food in the dishwasher on sanitize. Troy covered the kitchen with a blanket, and we waited for Jack to wake up the next morning.
The kitchen was A HIT! And who cares that it's pink!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Friday, December 17, 2010
A child's milestones
The day your child is born, you realize for perhaps the first time that you are someone's "mom". It's your job to nurture them and protect them. You watch and wait for every sign of advancement - "oh look, he's looking at me", or "he just rolled over"!
As they age, there are less obvious signs of milestones. I feel that this morning, Jack definitely wanted me to know that he is no longer a baby, but a toddler - a little man. Moments ago as I was getting ready to eat lunch at work, I realized he made his point clearly by "packing my lunch" by adding a zebra when I wasn't looking. Perhaps he wasn't comfortable with the amount of protein I had packed for myself?
As they age, there are less obvious signs of milestones. I feel that this morning, Jack definitely wanted me to know that he is no longer a baby, but a toddler - a little man. Moments ago as I was getting ready to eat lunch at work, I realized he made his point clearly by "packing my lunch" by adding a zebra when I wasn't looking. Perhaps he wasn't comfortable with the amount of protein I had packed for myself?
Friday, December 10, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thank you!
Thank you for the prayers for little Ian and his family. He was able to go home on Saturday!!!
They now believe it's an issue with his kidneys and he is being closely monitored.
They now believe it's an issue with his kidneys and he is being closely monitored.
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