The End of a Long Day

SO Morgan decided he wanted to hang out with us today. Since the zoo here is pretty cheap, we decided to head up that way and see the baby elephant. It turned out to be a great trip. Dax was way more excited about all of the animals. (probably because last time we went it was freezing!)

Dax wouldn't give me my drink back


His reaction to elephants





We got pretty lucky when this rhino came right up to the window



Gotta love those giraffe!


He's like a fish... I swear, if there's water he'll find it. (He could see his reflection in the ball)



Momma and Baby messing around. (he sure loves to be chased)




Winding down from our busy day

We've Hit a Road Block...

Potty training started this morning. Dax LOVES all of the attention he gets for using the potty. He got a little too excited this morning and couldn't sit still. That wasn't really a problem though. The big problem came to mom and dad not setting a timer and forgetting to put the little guy on the potty as often as we should have. He would run to the potty, but by the time we got over to him and pulled his underwear off he'd either still be going, or we would have just missed it. So it looks like we need to work on timing. I'll have to do more research, but I'm not giving up!






Look what he figured out...

Finished Bean Bag Toss Game

SO... I'm not proud of the job I did covering the box, but it was kind of a challenge with Dax climbing all over me and fighting me for the tape. But here it is...

Latest projects

Hey everyone, I don't have much time until Dax wakes up from his nap, so I'll make this fast. I wanted to show everyone my latest project. My sister in law is throwing a Nemo party for my nephew this weekend, and I offered to help make a bean bag toss game. I've never worked with felt, so some of these are better then others, but overall I think it will be a fun game for the kids. Dax already loves to throw the characters around.


Me and Dax made some banana yogurt pops the other day. I gave him one the other morning and he wasn't really sure what to do with it. The photo with his hands in the air is him telling me he's all done.




Also, Dax's little friend came over yesterday, and I couldn't resist snapping some photo's of them when they were wrestling around.(They both were cracking up)






And FINALLY, our family project for this weekend is to get Dax outta those diapers for good! He's been doing so good on the potty lately, and he's started to go into the other room to go #2, so we decided it's time for him to move on up to the big boy undies. We even got some supplies to help make the challenge a little easier. He got 7 new pairs of big boy undies (of course he picked the Elmo ones) and some yummy juices, so he'll have something in him when we sit him on the potty.

Updates

SO we took Dax to the park yesterday. (we practically live there). Only this time he decided he wanted to do EVERYTHING on his own. He even climbed the stairs, placed his little tush on the slide, and pushed off all on his own. (of course daddy was right there to make sure his cute little butt didn't fall). Here are those photo's:












Along with our outdoor adventure, we had a few crafts that we put together. First of all Morgan painted my table!! Yay! It is beautiful and I cannot wait to use it! Unfortunately we have to wait 72 hours so we won't damage the work he did. And I'll tell you, I didn't think it would be a big project, but it took about 8-10 hours a day for two days to get that thing done! What a wonderful husband! I'll have pictures of that on here sometime this week, but just know that pictures don't do it justice.

The other projects were a pineapple upside down cake, which tasted oh so yummy, and Dax made a lion. We were planning on going to the zoo tomorrow, so I've been working with him on signing all of the animals. We put together this cute little lion out of a cereal box, but now it looks like the weather is not going to be so great, so we'll have to wait until next week. All he wanted to do was be in charge of the glue. So with Daddy's help he put glue on all of the places that needed it. We even got him to put the eye's on all by himself, and a couple pieces of the mane.



And finally, I did a little re-organizing this weekend and made a couple changes. We ended up bringing his rocking horse down stairs. Morgan put him on it and we thought he hated it. BUT with a little encouragement from Dad he finally loosened up and had a good time.

Happy Late Earth Day!

Our Earth Day project started really simple. We were going to paint tiny ceramic pots and plant small flowers... After deciding I didn't want to be responsible for more then one plant at a time I decided to create a cute 'no fuss' flower from things I had laying around. We made some caterpillars to go with our pots, so I took the extra egg carton and came up with these:





Later today I'll post our 'Hubble' telescope we made since the 20th anniversary of the launch was today.