Captain America

So Thomas has been really wanting to get Addison a Captain America shirt, but have not really wanted to spend alot of money. Well I found this great idea on one of my craft blogs to do a DIY Captain America shirt. I used Saran Wrap to paint the shirts to make it look worn. It was super easy and I think Daddy is happy with it. We made one for Addison and Lily! I hope to make one here in the next couple of weeks for Baby Peanut!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Critterfest

On Sunday we took Addison to the Science Spectrum for their annual, Critterfest. This is a great event for the kids in Lubbock to look and touch animals. Since we do not have a zoo here in town or anything close to it, it is a very big deal! Addison was able see her friend the camel that was at the library at the beginning of the summer. They had a gator show and a tiger show, but we only saw the gator show because the tiger show was out of control with people. She was able to see different reptiles and touched 2 snakes (she described them as "slimy") She petted some giant rabbits and a hamster, they had many different dogs, petting zoo animals, and her best event was the horse back riding. It was only like a 2 minute ride, but she LOVED it! She kept saying YEE-HAW! We had a great Sunday afternoon and we think that Addison had a great time!

There are more pics of the event on Facebook!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

The Sandbox

We have finally added sand to the bottom of Addison's swing set to make her own little sand box.  We have been taking her little sand tote to the park with us, and she would love to dig in my garden, so I think it was definitely time to get her own sand to play in.

Much Love,
The Reynolds

PS. Please ignore Addison's saggy drawers!! We are in the middle of sizes right now and we often have pants falling off or baby buttcrack! LOL.

SHARK!!

I had to share the drawing that Addison did on her own one day while was getting lunch ready for us. She called me over and told me that she had drawn a shark and that I needed to do the eyes and the mouth. Therefore, the only part that is mommy-drawn on this are the eyes and the teeth (which doesn't like an adult drew it more a toddler drawn face), everything else is her. You can see the head, the scales/fins, and the tale. I was so very impressed with my little artist!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Choo Choo Soul

For reading/listening to 25 books in the library summer reading program, Addison received a bag of goodies that were train themed. Her favorite prize was a conductor's hat. Last week while watching the disney channel, a small clip in between regular shows in Choo Choo Soul. It is a little music video and it is train themed. Addison saw that it was on and ran and got her hat and was ready to dance with her friends on the tv. She was having such a fun time, my little dancing girl. Sorry for the crazy hair under that hat. We are having a little bit of "in between" curly hair at the moment!

Much Love,
The Reynolds....CHOO CHOO!!

Happy Father's Day!

We had a pretty low key Father's Day! We gave daddy his gifts a couple days before because we were very excited about it. Daddy got a Addison painted popcorn bowl! She absolutely loved painting this bowl! We will doing more fun activities in coming years! Daddy also got a new Wii game to play and enjoy. On Father's day we went and fed the ducks at the park, did some morning play time under our tree in the front yard, watched a movie while Addy was taking a nap, and Thomas did some Wii playing. Oh yea...Addison and Daddy did some snuggling in the her itty bitty bed.
Happy Father's Day Thomas! I love you so much!

Much Love,
The Reynolds

Crafts

I have been trying to do a craft or activity with Addison every afternoon while I am home with her for the summer.  I don't know who all reads this, but for those of you have kids it might be fun to share some ideas that we all have! I know that I love looking/gathering new ideas for Addison, so I thought I would share some of the things that we are doing. Here is what we did this week:

This is a great this kit that you can get at Michaels. It gives enough to make 4 of each animal, so it is great to pull out at various times in the summer.  She LOVED these!

We made this caterpillar out of scrape book paper by linking the paper.  I wasn't sure that Addison would get the linking, but she caught on right away and did it all by herself.

The butterflies are made out of 2 coffee filters each and pipe cleaners.  Color the pipe cleaners with marker and then get an eye dropper for the kids to squeeze water on the filters.  This will make the colors run together. Let it dry and then attach the coffee filters together with the pipe cleaner to make antenaes.

The crayola fingerpainting kit is great! It does not get paint everywhere, instead it is a gel.  It is fun to watch the paint color come up on the paper and it is a great sensory activity.

Another painting activity, but with real paint.  You can buy these wooden shapes for 50-90 cents at any craft store.  We bought a butterfly and a turtle.  Daddy took the turtle to work.

We made Carlos a 2 weeks ago, but I wanted to share him.  It is just made with construction paper and a glue stick.  Addison glued all of the pieces on her own and loved getting sticking with the glue. Addison drew the face, I guess he was sad that day!

 This is not a recent picture, but it shows what Addison and I did on Thursday.  We straped our handy dandy matching aprons on and we made mini blueberry muffins.  She loves to help with baking.  I have a cookie scoop that looks like a mini ice cream scoop, so it makes it really easy for her to help scoop up the batter and put it in the pan.  She really enjoys licking the spoon at the end!

I am having so much fun with my girl and I hope to share what we do next week with you!!

Much Love,

The Reynolds