Sunday 30 October 2011

Kayla's room at last!

Well it took me took weeks to finally get the screws for the closet handles so I could finally call Kayla's room done, and at last! I finally have finished.  This is a picture of the beautiful dresser before...

And here is her bedroom before, with bright pink curtains and yellow walls her room GLOWED, sorta felt a little red light districty. So I needed a new color!

This is the first thing you see when you walk into Kayla's room, it's her growth chart (and yes i did slightly copy Rapunzel's tower.)


There's Kayla's height! And here is the dresser after, along with the castle! The 'K' was nic's idea. I repainted the dresser and spray painted the original handles, although i still don't think this dresser photographers well.

 
 When I told Grandma Kayla was getting a princess room she had to buy her a matching chair!
 I had to repaint the closet doors because i'm a bit of a sloppy painter...and i didn't repaint the window frame because i'm lazy and a bit of a sloppy painter...this picture the pink color difference is very noticable but i like to pretend that in person it's not so noticable. and look at the big girl bed! there is an opening at the bottom for Kayla to easily crawl in and out, but for those of you who have met her you would not be suprised to know she likes to climb over the rail and pretty much flip into her bed.
 It really is a princess room, it's SOO big! I have little butterflies hanging from the ceiling above Kayla's change table and crib that she likes to try and blow. I got this idea from my friend Karen above Kullen's change table.


 Another view. It took me along time to decide how to hang the pictures on that wall, and they are not hung straight and i still don't know if i like them but i have to be done with her room so that's how the will be!

 another view of the castle. this project took FOREVEr to i needed to make sure it was well documented.
 and the closet doors again...time to put these pictures away, the more i look at them the more i want to go back and paint the pink above the window to match the closet, but then the pink curtains just wouldn't be right, and back to the hanging pictures, time to stop with this project!
next project blake's room! which is going to be much more difficult because he has an opinion about whats on his walls and keeps asking me to paint spiderman, not going to happen! i don't even know how he knows who spiderman is!

Saturday 22 October 2011

PUMPKINS! -dayhome

For obvious reasons our day home theme this week was pumpkins!

here are some of our pumpkin themed activities for the week,
 We had pumpkins of all sorts and sizes all over the playroom, including some mask! Blake wore this mask for an entire day.
 Decorating mini pumpkins! The boys said their pumpkins could fly with their wings, were monsters with lots and lots of eyes and were silly pumpkins.
 I found cutting out sugar cookies with toddlers to be not the best activity and it does not last long, you have to quickly pick up the ones they cut out before a-they eat too much dough, and b-they cut over top and over top and there is not much to even pick up. BUT! giving them a ball of dough each at a time and then several bowls of decoration works SO much better, and both times I've done it they have waited until they have decorated quite a few cookies before they start sneaking decorations. and no one has eaten any cookie dough (with the exception of me...)
 I let Blake pick out the decorations at the bulk barn, he picked generic candy coated chocolate and candy corn. We also had orange colored sugar crystals and green Sparkles. the cookies looked great!
 Until they came out of the oven.....of course candy corn would melt! And generic candy coated chocolates burn in the oven. the insides were gross burnt chocolate. 
 Mine looked better because I let the boys use all the candy corn.
 Another activity that I attempted, unsuccessfully, was carving a pumpkin.  I thought they would love stick their hands in the pumpkin and squeezing the guts in between their fingers and digging for seeds.  But no. Blake, who makes mud if there isn't any in the back yard, was not interested in pumpkin guts. So this was a solo activity. and now i have a hallow pumpkin, I lost interest in carving it when no one would help.
These are the chick cookies Blake made last time.  We used slivered almond and Reese pieces, which worked great!

Sunday 9 October 2011

royal tyrrell dinosaur museum!!

what a hit! It started with driving through Drumheller, Blake was so excited pointing out all the dinosaurs that are all over the town! Auntie Karin, Grandma and Grandpa joined us.
 Blake LOVED the museum, he raced through the whole thing. He pointed out all his favourites, T-rex (has only 2 fingers), triceratops and the anklyosaur.  The museum had so much fun stuff to check out, we will definitely have to make another trip.
 It was not easy getting a picture of Blake at the museum, he would not stay in one spot long enough.

 Kayla loved spinning the globes.

 the rather graphic dinosaur movies, t-rex attacking another dinosaur, blood dripping from the teeth and all.
 After the museum we went and climbed up the 576 steps to the t-rexs mouth! Blake was TERRIFIED! Kayla was not so sure either but didn't freak out at the top like Blake did.


Saturday 8 October 2011

my first blog entry

I've decided to start my own blog and really have no idea how, so we will see what happens with my first blog posting!!