Easy Valentine's (or not) activity for your toddler!

We woke up to straight up ice everywhere this morning.  All the schools are closed so even if I hadn't taken Blakely out of MDO this week she wouldn't be able to go today.  Juanet usually comes to clean on Tuesdays but the roads are bad so she's not coming either.

So me and B are stuck in the house again.  I wanted to come up with a fun way to entertain her.  I saw this idea on a blog (I can't remember where!) a while ago and it came to my mind this morning.  A super easy and not too messy toddler activity!  

As you all may know I have a craft closet and am somewhat of a craft supplies hoarder.  I had some leftover foam (I have no idea from what) so I cut out a bunch of different sized hearts.  I had heart cookie cutters so I pressed them into the foam and then cut on the indented line.  Very easy and it took me all of 10 minutes to cut these hearts out.  Honestly, I don't think you even need the the cookie cutters...  You can buy a large package of different color foam at your local craft store for pretty darn cheap.  (Hob Lob online sells this package for $6.  For comparison, I used 6 sheets to cut out all of these hearts.  If you don't want to cut stuff out they sell foam cut outs for a little more money)

Anyway.  I put a little bit of water in a sturdy bowl and laid some towels down just in case.  You really don't need that much water.  I only used enough to cover the bottom of this bowl.    

First dip the foam heart in the water.  

Then it will stick to the window.  Blakely was obviously amazed.  

She played with these for over an hour.  Unheard of.  Once they were all on the window she took them off, dried them on the towels and started over.  Then she put them all in the bowl and told me that they were swimming.  

I dried them off when we were finished playing and I think we will play with them again later in the bubble bath.  The foam doesn't really get that wet, it sort of repels the water so they dry out really easily.  Although if we play with them in the bath I will probably throw them out after that.  

I am already planning the next time I do this activity with her.  I am going to cut out different sized shapes and have her match them up and count them.  I have a lot of foam ;)

Paint Date

Today, Blakely and I had a painting date.  She absolutely loves to paint and asks to do it every day but since I am such a mean mommy she doesn't get to do it as much as she would like.  ;)  

But since my girl was out of MDO today I decided to surprise her and let her go at it.  The reason we don't do it every day will become very obvious very soon.  

We started like this.

Once we finished making Valentine's for all of her friends (thanks for the great idea Sarah!), we moved on to more intense painting...

tongue out due to major concentration 

And after that things got real.  As I knew they would.  

scoop the paint out...

rub together...

show mom...

then slap 'em down.  

Repeat 487 times for maximum fun!  

We had a blast and I know I should let her do it more.  And bonus!  Bubble baths in the middle of the day.  

Valentine's fun...sort of.

Today is pretty much a lay around the house in our pajamas kind of day.  The husband and the baby are both sick.  I have to say...it isn't all that fun.  Because you know who else is sick?  MY MOM.  She never gets sick and she is the one who always comes over to help me when I get overwhelmed.  Anyway, Gran Di isn't contagious anymore and is feeling better today so I am hoping she is going to come over this evening to play with Blakely!  Yes...mom...if you are reading this...please come...help....

I am thinking B and Lonnie have the same thing.  Cruddy cough and super snotty.  Lonnie says he feels like he has golf balls in his throat.  Fun.  Blakely is pouring drool so I am assuming her throat hurts as well.  She just really wants to be held most of the time.  When her medicine kicks in then she will play for a while.  I just loaded her up with meds and put her down for a nap so hopefully she will sleep for a while.  Because she needs it...there hasn't been much of it around here.  Lonnie is sleeping on the couch.

I refuse to get sick.  Let's all repeat that, k?  KELLY WILL NOT GET SICK!

I really really really do not need to get sick.

Ok so the point of this post was to show you cute pictures of B doing fun Valentine's stuff.  Let's get to that.  

Jenni gave B some fun Valentine's gel stickers for the window.  You should all go out and get these.  Supreme toddler fun.

We put them all over the windows...

Then we moved them to the other part of the window...40256 times

Mommy will for sure be getting more of these.  

My mom got Blakely some Valentine's to give to people.  She also got her a bunch of stickers to decorate them with.  B goes to Gran Di's every Sunday so they were going to make these last Sunday.  Buuuuuut my mom got sick so that didn't happen.  She gave them to me and B and I made them.  Stickers...get you some of those too.  Any kind....all kinds... 

At first she thought they needed to go on the window....

I encouraged her to actually put them on the valentine's

Then the best part happened.  We put them on each other!  That fun lasted for a super long time.  

This is her saying stickers over and over and over.  It sounds like chi-chi...

Mom.  You are distracting me.  

So thank you to my mom and my aunt for getting B some super fun entertainment for Valentine's Day.  It was all thoroughly enjoyed!

I did manage to get her a new Mic.key and make red velvet cupcakes.  But I was out of energy to decorate them cute...so here they are.  With B's, L's, K's and x's and o's.  And one has a 16 on it since B turned 16 months old.  I'll let her eat that one tonight!  

Oh and I decided to cut her lunch into hearts at the last minute.  Turned out fun!  

Valentine's and Orange Juice

First of all, I want to thank all of you who commented on my last two posts.  It really means a lot to me to hear from you girls that are reading my blog.  I love y'all!!!


Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  I know I have because it has been 60 degrees and sunny here and that always helps.

I have had to work all weekend but the guy we just hired took my night time call last night and tonight....I really heart him!  It is pretty super working with a guy (hard to find a male in my field) that just got out of school and is totally gung-ho about taking call as much as possible so he can save money.  That ship has totally sailed for me.  I want to work my hours and then be done.  I would be ok not taking any call but I don’t have that option where I work.  I am on call every 7th weekend and every other Thursday, which I know is not bad AT ALL (compared to what I did when I was full time), but I despise call.  Getting out of bed and driving to the hospital multiple times a night gets old really fast.  Not to mention it is usually to scan a pregnant girl, who is 17, has a baby with her, and reeks of cigarettes.  This is not good for an infertile girl......I have had to bite my tongue many times and I have also cried on the way home multiple times.  Seriously, there are so many stories.  Sometimes my profession is absolute torture....but I do love it most of the time! 

Sooooo.....tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.  We don’t have big plans at all.  I think we are going to go out to dinner because, honestly, I don’t want to clean the kitchen.  I mean....I like it when we cook together but we don’t clean together and this girl is tired.  I am not a big fan of going out to dinner on Valentine’s because of the crowds and the prix fixe menus but I think I’ll make an exception this time!  Last Valentine’s Day my honey cooked me an awesome meal and we drank lots of wine....

Rigatoni pasta with sausage and peppers

Terrible picture but here we are!  I look like I have been crying and probably was.  This was just after our first IUI had failed and I had been convinced it had worked :(

So we drank tons of this!

The year before that (2009) I was really into making cakes (which I want to get back into) so I made him a cake.  It was presh....

Cake next to the pink roses he got me

All I really want to do this Valentine's Day is hang out with my honey.  He has been so busy at work and I have been so flippin' crazy through all this IVF stuff so we haven't really gotten to spend quality time together.  I want to go out and eat yummy dinner, come home and watch a movie while we snuggle on the couch with our sweet baby(ies).  This sounds ahhh-mazing to me!  


Speaking of baby(ies).....this is what is sitting next to me as I type this....

This stuff is my best friend.  I can not get enough!  It's not a craving but I am just so thirsty all the time and water is getting old.  I have never been a huge fan of OJ but it looked yums at the store so I made the purchase.  Pumped that I did because it is rocking my world!  Oh and I don't have a glass next to me....I have the whole container :)


Hope y'all have a great day tomorrow with your sweeties!!