January 14th, 2010 — 9:30am
The story behind this hat is really funny….I love it because every time I see Jacob in it, I just get to giggling.:) (And what is it with boys that they can’t smile nicely, like normal, for a picture? Every picture’s gotta bring its own drama to the table. LOL)
A couple of years ago, Jacob got this hat for Christmas. He loved it then, but he kinda grew out of it; at least, his tastes completely changed since then, meaning he got way more picky. Tried shopping for clothes with a picky 7 year old? Oh, it’s just so much fun! Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I dug out this hat and resurrected it.:) It seemed that every time I turned around, Jacob was losing every hat I gave him. He’d wear it and never bring it in from the car, or he’d put it somewhere, who knows where. So, sometimes we moms have to get creative in our discipline, right? I decided to resurrect this hat and make him wear it, since we just couldn’t ever keep track of our hats anymore. I got the big eyes and the, “Oh, Mom, do I have to? Please don’t make me wear that hat! Pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee!” LOL To which I replied, “Well, maybe this will teach you to quit losing stuff and actually find your other hats.” LOL
From that day on, he has worn this hat, and now he’s back to liking it; he says it’s “so comfortable.” It still cracks me up, though. LOL Gotta love ‘im.
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December 10th, 2009 — 7:00am
Lately, the boys and I have been celebrating Advent, thanks to the wonders of Jenn’s Advent Idea Box. We’ve done so many arts and crafts, and we’re set to do much more. Last night I went to the dollar store and the craft store to get more supplies. We are stocked up!:) Anyway, we’ve done a couple of fun things so far that the boys and I just loved.
First we made ice cream cone Christmas trees out of sugar cones, green icing, and little candies or sprinkles.
We used mini M&M’s for ours. They were so much fun to make….
and even better to snack on afterwards.:) At least it was bathtime after.:) Totally worth the mess, though.
Then one night we made popsicle stick snowflakes with popsicle sticks, glitter glue (our Dollar Tree here had huge packs of glitter glue for $1 (just an fyi)), and other little buttons, jewels, and beads that we glued on for decoration.
Daddy even got in on this one with us, using the hot glue gun to glue the popsicle sticks together for our snowflakes, since regular glue just wasn’t cutting it too well. He also got a little sidetracked and made his name.:)LOL (Guys and popsicle sticks….)
Of course, Jaden thought it was more fun to try to eat the glitter glue this time; he usually does really well with it and loves it, but he was kinda cranky this night anyway. Still, we had a lot of fun and made quite a few beautiful snowflakes to hang in our windows or wherever else we might want them.
We love Christmas crafts; I have plenty more up my sleeve, and I’ll be sharing some more of our finished products with you over the next couple of weeks. For more Things I Love Thursday, visit The Diaper Diaries.
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