Molly's first cereal...

So tonight we gave Molly rice cereal for the first time! She has been so interested in everyone else's food for awhile, I decided it was time! She saw the bowl and practically started flying she was so excited. She loved every bite! The only time she got upset was when it didn't come fast enough!!! Here are some pictures:

We started in the Bumbo, but she kept leaning forward to get the food faster and squishing her little tummy!

I had to add more cereal to make it thicker!  She was not a fan of the soupy cereal!

I love this picture!  I have fed a lot of babies cereal and never met one who got so excited their first time!

It was a great way to end the weekend! :)

A great girls night!

After having several weeks of awful evenings with one or both of my girls being crabby, we finally had a perfect night!

The day started a little rough!  Molly had her 4 month checkup and shots yesterday, so she was a little off and Maggie was just plain crabby!  Both girls took good naps and woke up happy and hungry.  Maggie loves Perkins and Saturday's kids eat free, so I decided we would have a little girl's dinner.  This was not our first girl's dinner, but it was hands down our best yet!!!  Before leaving the house, Maggie insisted on wearing her apron and chef hat.  She looked so cute and it really wasn't worth the fight!

Outfit of the evening!

Upon arrival Maggie asked to have her face painted.  I told her let's wait till after dinner since the line was so long.  We had no fights, no whining, no "but whys", just an "okay Mommy!"  We sat down and I ordered her food right away.  Molly was awake the whole time and fussed a little, but overall a good girl! After we finished dinner, my Maggie patiently waited 15 minutes to get her face painted.  She was thrilled with her rainbow!

Happy girl!

We made a quick stop at the bank, which is next to Target. My Maggie loved Target and asked very sweetly if we could go, "just for a tiny baby bit!"  Molly was due to eat soon and I had a feeling it would go bad.  I decided to chance it since Molly was sleeping, but said we had to leave as soon as Molly started fussing.  This was the first time in a long time that I had nothing I needed to get!  We just wondered around.  I let her walk instead of riding in the cart and we stopped and looked at whatever caught her eye.  Every time she saw something she wanted, I told her we would add it to her birthday list.  No fights, no begging, just plain fun!  We stopped in the girl's clothes section and she adorably held up dresses to herself and spun around like a little princess.  I found adorable matching dresses for the girls!  I have no idea when they will wear them, but they were 50% off and too cute to be left behind!

$15 for both!

Molly woke up half way through out trip and I was bracing myself for a meltdown.  She just smiled and cooed at me.  After a quick stop in the dollar section where Maggie picked out one thing, we headed home. Maggie asked for ice cream and I chanced it!  We stopped and got ice cream to take home, Molly still not screaming and over an hour past her normal eating time. On the way home we rocked out to Hey, Soul Sister and Sexy and I Know It!  Molly was squealing and giggling from the back seat and Maggie was singing along!  I was just beaming!  What a fun night!

This wasn't from tonight, but is the same cute, happy face I was looking at in the cart!

We arrived home meltdown free!  The evening continued in to be filled with smiles and giggles and meltdown free bedtimes!  *SIGH*  It doesn't get much better than that!  :D

Maggie's Birthday invites!

I have been planning Maggie's birthday for months! She will be 3 on May 25th! She wanted a purple party and then she decided to add Rapunzel.  I have been searching Pinterest for ideas and found these adorable invites!  http://stefanieburt.com/blog/?s=tangled

Step 1: A trip to the craft store for supplies...then another trip for different yarn and and some ribbon I forgot. I got 12x12 glitter paper, 8x11 (or whatever the letter like size is) metallic paper, a hole punch and yarn.

The first yarn I bought was too thick, since I plan on mailing them.

This is what I used.  I had to get thin ribbon,  to tie the hair.

Step 2: I printed the text...a lot of work went into alignment, font and sizing.  The best advice I can give for this is to print a few on plain paper and play around with it. The challenge was to get it small enough to fit into the envelop once I added the tower roof.  Also, a bit of advice, the metallic paper does not absorb the ink right away, so be careful handling the paper.  I smudged a few.

This was a mistake one.  I smudged the words and had to shrink the font.

Step 3: Cut it all down. TIP: Do not center the text as you cut, leave some room on one side for the "hair"  My final pictures will explain what I mean.

The roof took some playing around with to get it the right size  for the envelop.

Step 4: I punched a whole and then started the gluing process. The original one I saw, just had a window, I added a picture of Maggie.

Step 5: The "hair!"  This part was a little tedious, but so worth it.  I originally was going to braid the hair, but Maggie said Rapunzel doesn't have a braid in the tower...a little relieved I had one less step!  I simply cut six strands of yarn and tied them with thin purple ribbon.

Step 6: Glue the "hair" on.  I used my hot glue gun, because I knew it would stick.  On the center aligned ones I glued the yarn in 3 places and on the left aligned ones I glued it in 2 place.  I like the look of the free flowing hair.

The final product:

The one on the left is glued in two places on top and once on the side.  The right one, just has two dots of glue on top.

So that was my project the last few nights!  I am glad it is done.  Next up...braids for "Pin the hair on Rapunzel!"  I am very excited for May 19th!!!

Easter craft

I am sorry I haven't posted for awhile. It had been a crazy few weeks. I just wanted to share the Easter craft I made with the kids!



Another hand/foot print project! I used her hand for the head and held her fingers in a 'v' to form the ears. The body is her footprint and some fingerprint arms. I just drew on a face and there you have it! I think it turned out pretty cute, though Maggie calls it a kitty! :D

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