Arden’s daycare had their Halloween party on the 31st, and I stuck around to help out and take some pictures. This is the only one I can share without other kids identifiable in it, but it was a great party with lots of activities. This is the first time I’ve seen Arden use scissors, and I thought she {…Continue Reading}
Today was spent getting ready for tomorrow’s Halloween festivities – packing the treat bags for disbursement at daycare, minion costume at the ready, and pumpkin carving! Last year’s pumpkin carving post is here. Arden did great with choosing the designs and with scooping and picking up stray pumpkin seeds. She did not however, understand to keep her {…Continue Reading}
This year for Halloween, Arden requested to be a character from her favorite movie – “Yellow Guys”. You would know it as Despicable Me. Despicable Me is the first movie she started to pay attention to, and I think I’ve seen it at least 50 times now. This was a good year for this type {…Continue Reading}
We had taken the shots of me and my gigantic belly while Arden was napping. Since she’s been a little bit under the weather and pretty crabby, I wanted to at least be sure we got some pictures of Baby #2 before she arrived. When Arden woke from her nap, she was in a pretty {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s first dance class turned out very well. She’s been super excited about her ballarina skirt and shoes for quite a while, so I was a little apprehensive that she’d get overwhelmed. The class is half ballet and half gymnastics, meeting once a week for half an hour. Right off the bat, my little monkey {…Continue Reading}
At the end of August, we rented a cottage on the shore of Lake Huron (that’s the eastern side of the lower peninsula for those of you not up on your Great Lakes geography). Sort of a family of three babymoon in recognition that our family will soon be undergoing some drastic changes when baby #2 {…Continue Reading}
I’ve had the knitting completed on this sweater for a bit, but I finally added the buttons today. That still leaves blocking to do, but I figured close enough to share at this point. This was my first go-round with fair isle knitting, and I think it turned out really well if I do say {…Continue Reading}
Arden had her first day of preschool today! Her daycare begins the preschool program at 30 months, and Arden reached this milestone exactly in time to begin with the new school year. I’m not sure what’s up with the funny walk and faces – she’s been into walking “like a ladybug” lately. I guess she’ll {…Continue Reading}
Call me chicken, or better yet an ostrich because I’ve been putting my head in the sand when it comes to Photoshop Elements. I’ve had the software on my computer since before Arden was born, but every time I went to try to play around with it I just got stuck and gave up. My eyes {…Continue Reading}
This is still one of the best projects I’ve made. Arden uses it nearly every day and it’s held up really well. She mostly takes the magnets off the front, but she plays with the food on the shelves inside more than the play stove that I made it to go with. If I need {…Continue Reading}
