Colby Turns One!

We don’t do big parties for one year olds. We just had our immediate family over for burgers and cake. It was fun and just enough attention for my baby boy. Who is still very much a baby. :)

Colby loves to:

get into things (dog bowl, cabinets, dvds…)

pull hair

wrestle with brother and sister and friends (we hope he is not a bully in Sunday School)

ride around in his carrier on mom

eat crayons

play with tags

mess with electronic devices

dance and clap

 

He is sweet natured, loves to be loved on, and always has a smile for you.

 

WE LOVE YOU COLBY!!!

    and we are 3 for 3 on non-cake eating one year olds in this house. He was not impressed with cake.

A Project Finished

 

Scalloped Garland

Started this months ago and never went back to it. It’s finally done and when her room looks all nice and neat I’ll take a big picture of it showing the whole wall. It’s copied from Pinterest. I did put the pink ruffle instead of regular binding. It was something I already had and is special. It is the same ruffled edge that I used when making her special pillow she sleeps with. I bought the rest of a bolt once and it’s just been hanging out. I had just enough for the whole garland. Most of the fabric I snagged from my mom’s stash. Several patterns are leftover scraps from the special quilt my mom made her and the pink stripe is from leftover scraps of her curtain. She picked out the blue butterfly fabric and that’s the only one I bought. Very inexpensive project and it is sooooo cute on the wall. She loves it and I love it.

THUNDERCAKE

 

If you don’t have this book, you need this book. Go get this book. Get on Amazon and order it today. So cute and fun, especially if your kids are afraid of storms. It’s about a grandmother and granddaughter (if I remember correctly…I could have the relationship mixed up…i.e. aunt, great-grandmother) Granddaughter is afraid of storms and there is one rolling in. She learns to count the seconds after the lightning to see how close or far the storm is and they make a thundercake to take her mind off of it…..recipe in back of book…so you can read the book and make a thundercake too. It is so perfect for this stormy time of year.

I Love Soccer!

 

Who knew this dancer girl would love soccer so much. I have always loved sports, but I didn’t know anything about soccer a year ago. I never played soccer, never watched soccer, never had a boyfriend soccer player. Then, we signed up Mckenzee for her first season of soccer last Spring…we love it. that first season was awesome. She played for the Y, co-ed, 3-4 year olds and did amazing. She scored 11 goals on the season and just flew around the field. She wasn’t a bit nervous and looked forward to scoring every week. Then came the next division, 5-6 year olds. This season was rough for a little girl who had just turned 5. She played on a team of 9 boys and two girls. Some boys who were almost 7. She shut down. She was scared. She was lucky to get her foot on the ball, much less score. After her first game she got in the car and said, “I’m not as good at soccer as I used to be.” It was not a fun season, but we stuck it out. She ran hard and showed up at every game. We weren’t sure if she would want to play again, but she said she did so this season we wanted to get her confidence back. We signed her up for an all girls league, separated by one age. So she plays with just 5 year old girls. It’s a big change. Last season they played with 4 offense, 2 defense and a goalie. This season she plays 3 on 3, for the whole field, no goalie. It’s much easier, but we don’t care, we just want her to gain confidence and love soccer again, and it’s slowly working. She’s had two games and hasn’t scored yet, but come very close. She’s taking the ball away and kicking a lot and I can tell her spark is coming back.

Can’t wait for Saturday! Go Pink Pandas!

I love Coach Daddy too!