Park Ranger

Carver was a park ranger for Halloween. The cutest one I might add! Here he is before his Halloween celebration parade at pre-school.

We have a name

Since I am nesting big time and looooving preparing for a little girl to join our family, I decided to get crafty last week. I stole an idea from a friend to hang letters above the baby's crib. I bought wood letters, painted them brown, then did sponge circles on the letters in pink and blue. My bedding is brown, pink & taupe, but I have struggled with how to incorporate Carver's blue nursery chair. I tried slip cover, blanket, etc but didn't work. I decided to just make it work because I couldn't make sense of buying a new chair.

Sooooo...that's why I had to do blue on the letters. Time to start my project, but first...gotta get my little shadow set up with his own art table to keep busy while mama gets to work.

A few pieces of random wood from our shed, no problem
Give the boy some paint & he's set

Time for me to get started on painting my letters, in no particular order

Look who decided to forgo the paint brush and finger paint instead

First the blue dots, pink next. Any guesses on the name so far?

So typical for me. Notice the problem?

Atleast it could be corrected with a quick flip

Here comes the light pink...can you say GIRL?

When nature calls...

one of the bonuses of being a boy.
AND being mom to a boy. Never had to lift my paint brush to assist.

When boredom sets in, random outdoor objects are chosen

It's coming along. Do you know the name yet?

Oh great, now daddy's sprinkler is getting sponged

Perfect opportunity to wrap up the project & head inside.

Time to hang the letters...

__________ Chavez joining us in February...

IS...

Now a few pics of what I've done so far with the room.
Feel free to ignore from here on out, these are for the family (& Jules).

I am so excited that I, not really that crafty of a person, decided to use these 2 pictures that Carver painted last week. I realized the main colors were pink, blue and brown. I figured it was a good way to tie in the blue chair. I had old, unused frames in the house, and am beyond pleased with how great (I think, indulge me here) they look.

And let me tell you - Carver is proud to have his pictures hanging in baby sister's room.

View from hallway.

I'm just over the moon about the Strawberry Shortcake blanket (hanging over blue chair)
I bought the other day.

Is it just me or is Strawberry Shortcake not STILL so cute? It's the softest blanket ever

and I love that it's unique and reminds me of being a little girl myself.
No closeup but I'm sure you aren't too dissapointed.

My discount store purchase. The butterfly with blue marbles in it.

That's all she wrote!

I just have to fill up a few more spaces in the room.

I'll continue decorating and enjoying the magical feeling until she arrives,

and I'm sleep deprived and could care less!

Birdhouse

Sweet face

A fun art project from Carver's preschool class

..that he likes to sit with and look at

Silly face with his little "mini-me"

Last weekend, Gilbert bought a bird house kit for them to build together.

Carver has been doing these little wooden kits almost every weekend recently.
He is a lucky boy to have such a good daddy that enjoys it as much as he does.

Getting all the pieces laid out and ready...

and wearing his Rangers shirt in preparation for our comeback in game 2!

Using his Handy Manny hammer to help

We created a monster. With dad's assitance, he practically mastered the drill.
And LOVES it..of course.

So far, so good.
Nice family Saturday with windows open and mom's view from the sofa as we all

cheered on the Rangers and they worked on the birdhouse.

Patient daddy as he uses the screwdriver to put on the top

Then distracted by the drill while dad wraps up the harder parts

Waalaaa!

What a great daddy.

The 2 loves of my life.

So good we had to celebrate with an apple!

Bubble Mess

After digging in the garden dirt, of which Carver is not suppose to do, I sent him into his bathroom to wash the mud off his hands.

I kept hearing the water being turned on and off so went to check on him. This bottle of soap was full. He had excessively washed his hands.

I rinsed the sink out, and put the soap up on a shelf out of his reach.
Resumed loading the dishwasher in the kitchen.

Then I hear him yelling, "Mom, I made too many bubbles....Mom, help!"
Only to walk back and find this.

Well how on Earth could he have made so many bubbles when I already put away the soap?

Oh yes, I see....
Half a bottle of hand soap later...and about 1/2 a tube of Dora toothpaste later....that's how you can make so many bubbles.