Creation - Day 1

I decided to make Friday's a fun day over here (although I'd like to think every day is fun here ha ha) and do something special. We had a creation "themed day" over here. Now I use the term "themed day" loosely because my friend Kelly has full on theme days that are awesome. But for lack of another term that is what I am calling it.

I didn't spend one dollar on this theme day!! Here is what I did......................

Breakfast greeted them with their Easter baskets we made filled with some chocolate eggs...because who doesn't like chocolate, a jar and a little "flag" type thing that has day one on it. The jar was what we were going to do for their craft but I didn't tell them what we were going to do with it so they were very curious. Ethan wanted to know why it wasn't full of applesauce.

After breakfast and some playtime we read the story of creation and learned about what God did the first day. But since I am reading it to a 3 year old and a 4 year old I decided to spice it up a bit. Since the first day was about how he separated the darkness from the light I read the story in my laundry room in the dark. The kids thought this was the funniest thing ever. Then when we discussed how it was completely dark and when suddenly there was light I turned on one of our brightest flashlights. You would have thought I was taking these kids to Disneyland with their giggles and laughter.

{I didn't take a picture of our laundry room story time since it was dark - so insert imaginary picture here}

Then they played for a while because Baby "I" needed to eat and to go down for a nap and Baby "B" needed his bottle and a nap too.

Then like 45 minutes later lol....we got around to our project. So for this I had to get a little creative because I do not know how to represent light and dark in a craft. I decided to do something with a candle. First I was going to have them make candles but then I remembered that I have 4 children during the day and perhaps I should do something a little simpler. So I started thinking of ways to make candle holders.

Here is what I came up with: Tissue paper + Mod Podge + Glass Jar = loads of fun and one pretty cute candle holder.

Next week we will do day 2 and I have no idea what we will do yet. I should get working on that.

Spring Break

I had a lot planned for Ethan and I over spring break. I didn't have all four kids so we were going to venture out from the house. Something we don't do often since I am not brave to take all four by myself anywhere. but early in the middle of the night Monday Ethan woke up with a cough. One of the ones where mommy knows exactly what it is without getting up. Sure enough he ended up getting croup. Poor guy was wheezing on Monday and you could hear him breathing in the other room. So we ended up going to the doctor and he got a steroid. 

Next thing I knew my sweet baby Isaac had a fever and was feeling pretty crummy. This was Isaac's first time being sick. I will go ahead and speak for him and say he didn't appreciate it. He is still stuffed up but gladly his fever is gone.  Isaac hasn't slept good since Monday night at all. He is restless, stuffy and just wants mommy. Sometimes he doesn't even know what he wants he is just angry lol.

My mom was sweet and came over a few times to rock him so I could take a break and make dinner and shower. It's the simple things haha. But he is on the mend and I am glad that I can be here for him to help him feel better...even if it is 24 hours a day all hours of the night. ;) It's still the best job in the world!

I have tons of fun planned for these kiddos so I must run and get things together.