Our Week with Lily Part 1

Our first week of summer has been spent with Lucas' "girl friend" Lily while her mommy and daddy are on vacation in Mexico.  It's been a crazy week being a mom of 2 but it's making me feel like I can totally handle it when my time comes. Here are some highlights:

 Lily LOVED our Let's Dish Meal of Three Cheese and Spinach Lasagna Roll Ups

 Lucas liked it too but he prefers to have his picture taken and say "cheese".

 My failed attempt at taking their picture in the plaid outfits.

 Sweet Lily girl!

 The Gymnast

 Lily at Terrific Tots...She loved all the big spheres (balls sounded bad)

 Parachute Time..Lucas with all his friends! Luke, Zoe, & Jackson!

 Lily petting the Sheep at the Live Petting Zoo

"Hello Mr, Goat and Mrs. BaBa! I'm Lucas and I'm here to terrorize you!"

"YeHaw!"

"Mommy, it's HOT! Can we go home now?"

Sticker Art

I used to teach 1-3 year old Sunday School at our church.  Since Lucas was born I have stepped back from that position but am trying to remember some of the favorite activities we did with the kids. Due to nap time, Lucas hasn't been going to Sunday School so we're going to try some at home.  Today was his first art activity and he loved it.  I got some stickers (free from those return address labels that come in the mail) and a piece of construction paper.  I only had to show him once how to remove and stick the sticker on the paper and he took off until ALL of the stickers were gone.  He had a blast.  Today, I bought some truck stickers from Target dollar section as i'm sure we will be doing this activity frequently.

The monkey on his back is his favorite thing of the moment.  It was purchased as a leash but we removed the "Tail" and he uses it as a backpack.

A New Idea

The last few days I've been researching different things I can do with my 17 month old son, Lucas, to enrich his days and keep him busy and away from the television.  I'm not the type of parent that has the unrealistic approach of NO TV but I also don't want him parked there all day long.  So in comes crafts and learning through play. I'm a full time teacher so my time at home is limited and most of what I am planning will be done over the summer when we have a lot of time to fill.  My plan...to post our adventures together on this blog!