let's go fly a kite; ideas for you & your children: November 2012

Monday, November 12, 2012

The Perfect Day

There are a few days with my family that stand out above the rest. I'm adding this day to that list. I was beaming the whole day. For me it was the perfect Saturday at home with my family.

Breadie The Snowman

Meet Breadie the snowman (kids thought up the name from ginger"bread").

Breadie the snowman was jolly and so good,

With a scarf so bright, a carrot nose

And two eyes made out of wood.

Breadie the snowman is a fairy tale, they say,

He was made of snow but the children

Know how he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that

Old striped hat they found.

For when they placed it on his head

He began to dance around.

O, Breadie the snowman

Was alive as he could be,

And the children say he could laugh

And play just the same as you and me.

Thumpetty thump thump,

Thumpety thump thump,

Look at Breadie go.

Thumpetty thump thump,

Thumpety thump thump,

Over the hills of snow.

Breadie the snowman knew

The sun was hot that day,

So he said, "Let's run and

We'll have some fun

Now before I melt away."

Down to the village,

With some antlers as his hands,

Running here and there all

Around the square saying,

Catch me if you can.

He led the Ellsworths down the streets of town

Right to the sidewalk

And he only paused a moment when

He heard their mom holler "Stop!"

Oh Breadie the snow man

Had to hurry on his way,

But he waved goodbye saying,

"Don't you cry,

I'll be back again someday.

Thumpety thump thump,

Thumpetty thump thump,

Thumpety thump thump,

Look at Breadie go.

Thumpetty thump thump,

Over the hills of snow.

Breadie Ellsworth: Born Saturday

Fell over and died on Monday

Sunday, November 11, 2012

My Oldest

The first picture I ever took with my new camera. I love you sweet girl!

Friday, November 9, 2012

The kids each have a baby book. I don't do scrapbooking anymore because it's too messy and with kids that would be way too hard. So I've kept baby books and our family blog. I absolutely love their baby books. They are simple ones from Target but I keep everything in there: pictures of mommy's growing belly, baby shower invites, ultra sound pictures, letters from mommy and daddy to our baby, growth charts, foot prints, etc.

I want my children to be able to look back to the start of their lives and know they were loved so much even before they were born. And now that they are getting a little older, they love looking at their baby books!

One of my "nesting" projects I did before my last baby was born was to update all of their baby books. I printed lots of pictures, updating each of the prompt pages in their books. Typically I throw papers/pictures, etc. in the front of their books so they don't get lost. There was quite the accumulation of things in the front of their books. It was nice to give everything a place.

Apples For Sale!

I had images in my head of this beautiful photoshoot with my kids and apple picking at Grandpa's house. We did have lots of fun picking the apples but by the time I wanted to take some pictures of the kids with apples...well they were done! They didn't want to take pictures. Oh well. It was a lot of fun to pick apples, climb trees, climb ladders, etc.