Projects!

Over the past month we have done a few little projects and have had a lot of fun!

For those of you who have eaten with JT, you'll know that he is VERY picky when it comes to eating. He would rather have snacks and not eat a meal so I wanted to find something that may be a little more exciting, a little more novel. So I had found an idea on PINTREST and thought I'd give it a whirl.

He LOVED it! And so did Miss A! So I'll need to remember to do this once in a while to get some healthy food into JT!

I also wanted to redecorate our bathroom. I had done this before surgery but the pics have been living in my camera! The walls stayed the same taupe color but we switched out the brighter colored shower curtain for something more calming. Added in some accessories on the medicine cabinet above the toilet, and hung up a  super cute picture frame. It all was done pretty cheap via Michaels and HomeGoods! I Love our new bathroom. It is so much more homey, relaxing, and elegant (the pictures don't do it justice).

 I've been looking for some way to help the kids with their Helper Jobs. Both kids are super helpers! They want to help do things and so I wanted to give them a little more ability to decide what to do. I didn't want a chore list but wanted to keep their helping fun. So I made these (via pintrest again). Each kid has their own helper board. I took pics of things that they were able to do like pick up their room, set the table, separate laundry etc. Then we made magnet boards for each kid. I plan to put their helper jobs for the day on the left side and move them to the right side after they do it. Then at bedtime if all their helper jobs are done, they will get a punch in their punch card. 5 punches and they'll get to pick a fun thing like an extra bedtime story, a coffee/ice cream date, an extra trip to the park etc. We'll see how it goes! They are super excited about it so we tried it tonight with just one helper job each. My plan is to put the number of helper jobs per their age.

Addy had found a dollar around the house and put it in her purse and has been asking if she should buy something or save it for college. Since she has a whole piggy bank full of money for college, I told her I'd take her to the dollar store so she could spend it and that I'd pitch in the tax! She was ECSTATIC!!! We had to look at everything! Then she had a hard time deciding if she should use it to buy something for JT instead. What an amazing big sister. So after going back and forth, I told her I'd give her a second dollar so she could get them each something. So she picked out a truck for Ji'Robert and picked out this little wind chime for her room. Well actually she picked out a 6 pack of giant Shasta cans but I told her she might want to get something she would be able to keep forever. She was SO proud! We had to find the perfect spot to hang it!

 Addy decided she should draw a picture of me... I'm the one on the right!

We've done a few other projects but I don't have pictures of them. I've also got a big list of things I want to get done this summer. But I've also realized that realistically I'm not going to do everything myself. So project number one is painting the two story entryway, living room, stairwell, and landing. And guess what... I'm having someone else do it for me!!! I tend not to hire people to do things that I can do myself because it feels like a waste of money but I found a guy to do it for SUPER cheap and the extra time with my family is worth it! So sometime in the next few weeks it will all be done for me!

We've got a lot of creativity cooking over here and can't wait to do more fun projects this summer! I've got some good ideas from when I was an Arts and Crafts director!