Happenings

It's February and softball season has begun. Last weekend the weather was beautiful (50's and sunny) until the sun went down and we quickly froze. Thanks to the sun the girls and I decided to make the 4 hour round trip drive to watch Peter play softball. We got to see the majority of 3 games, 2 from the stands and 1 from the car. Samantha had a great time playing with Tasha.

Penny & Joy watching from the Stroller

Samantha loved the bleachers

In addition to softball, Samantha and Penny are doing great and growing so quickly. Samantha has learned all of her colors and the numbers 2 and 3. She loves playing with her hopscotch in the living room. Her favorite toys right now are her baby dolls and her new doll house from Great Aunt Jane. She also loves to watch Dora, although Daddy prefers Veggie Tales: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything!

Helping Penny make silly faces for Dora

Penny is hoping her head up really well and loves to play with toys. She has also started rolling over from her back to her tummy, but does not roll from her tummy to her back, but instead chooses to scream for us to come help her. She is finally starting to have a more routine sleeping patter including a couple of naps during the day, although she rarely sleeps more than 2.5 hours at a time. Peter is great at helping with her during the night so that I am not to grumpy after a day of work. We are just starting to introduce rice cereal.

Dressing Joy in Penny's jacket and wearing Momma's hat.

The girls calling Mimi from Samantha's toy phone.

Gifts

This past weekend we got to celebrate Josephine's 2nd Birthday. It was a blast and Samantha had a great time climbing in the Burger King Playland with Josephine's Daddy and the other parents that were there. Thank You for letting us celebrate with you.
Again, Peter and I worked together to complete a fun project. I really hope she likes hopping on her hopscotch mat.

Here are directions to make your own Hopscotch Mat, we used a painters canvas dropcloth for a low cost base. Since we have laminate floors we made Samantha's Hopscotch grid out of scrapbook paper and painters tape applying it directly to our floors. She loves to use it for identifying and naming colors and we are starting to work on some numbers.

Home Projects

Over the last week I have gotten the chance to catch up on some projects around the house. Our house remodel has been 'done' for about 2 years now and we finally decided on how to finish our kitchen back splash. You may have never known it was not done since the white primer was not to far off from the off white colored walls, but I had grand dreams of using metallic ceiling tiles to finish it off. We decided to go for a much more time and cost effective solution and used some coordinating paint that matches our curtains and a stencil done in paint just a shade lighter. Really we just added some white acrylic paint to the back splash color. It was a fairly quick project with us both working together. Here is the final product.

My second kitchen project required a little sewing and no help from Peter except for the final thumbs up.

Hanging towels! The top fabric is the same as our kitchen curtain. I got the pattern from here.