12/28/11 This is what I did with the rock salt from our advent wreath… I dyed it with food coloring and placed in a pan for Simon to play with. This kid loves sensory play so this was a huge hit with him. The invitation after playing with it for awhile he went and got some matchbox cars...

12/9/11 For baby’s first Christmas ornament I have taken both of my kids to have their hands imprinted in clay.  I love these little ornaments and next year I promise to take a photo of them! For successive years I have let the kids paint an ornament. This is a fun little tradition, which I...

One of the fun things that we did lately was get a light table. This was based on the recommendation of play-at-home mom that has done so many awesome blog post on great activities with a light table.  After seeing all their photos I knew we had to have one. And I found a cheap used one on...

Simon decided months and months ago that he was going to have a “dragon birthday” and that the cake would be a “pink chocolate raspberry cake” and he came up with all of that on his own! I went looking for a dragon cake pan because I am not a very good baker and I need...

I have been bad about taking photos of Simon’s lunch. I realized that it’s just too much effort to dig out a cutesy piece of scrapbook paper and photograph them so a lot have gone un-photographed. In addition for most of November and December I got so busy that I didn’t have...

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I learned this little activity a few years ago when visiting Montessori preschools for Simon. This is worth a good 30 minuets + of free time for parents/ care givers. At minimum you need an ice cube tray, red, yellow, and blue food coloring, and an eye dropper or pipet (recycling these from...

10/19/2011 I have always wanted to photograph triplets as posing 3 babies is a challenge but the results are oh so fun! Finally I got my chance. These three were so sweet and their mom absolutely blew me away with her amazing nursing and soothing skills. She told me that she was only getting...

changing up the blog made me realize how little I blogged in 2011 and how I blogged almost no client stuff. So Now I am going to remedy that. I’m going back though 2011 and I am going to post all the stuff I missed only I am going to post it out of date order, I will leave it that way...

Normally Myles takes the week between Christmas and New Year off for some family time but this year he was working on a big deadline so we decided to just take New Year’s weekend and get out of town. We went up to Leavenworth WA and had a blast enjoying the outdoors and the pool! Our...

They set up an ice rink here over the Holidays and since I grew up in Alaska and ice skating was a big part of my childhood my brother Mark and I thought it would be fun to take Simon. He received the knee pads with his skateboard for Christmas and it was all his idea to wear them ice skating...

December always seems so hurried and rushed with a million activities crammed in! I wanted to take is slow and enjoy the season. I wanted to have a cookie decorating party with friends, I wanted to take the kids to Garden D’lights, and to see the Reindeer, and to ride the carousel...