He's fake...

We had our first "fake" issue while visiting with and getting the twins photo taken with the Easter Bunny:
Braden: He was fake. He didn't talk to us.
Daddy: Bunnies don't talk they hop.
Mommy: The Easter Bunny is a bunny he can't talk to you like Santa can.
Braden: He didn't talk because he was fake! He had string between his teeth. I sawed it.
Uh oh...
So it's floss we tell him. The Easter Bunny was just practices good oral hygiene. I don't think he bought it!

Braden, "Fake" Easter Bunny & Connor

Happy Fourth Birthday

I am now the mother of twin four year olds! We recently celebrated Connor & Braden's 4th birthday! Where has all the time gone?

Connor & Braden with their birthday cake...

We had a lot of "cake" this year! We had Chuck E. Cheese cake at CEC with their pals, they brought Transformer cupcakes to school to share with their school friends and finally the M & M Transformer cake...

They were insistent for months that they get to have their birthday party with their pals at Chuck E. Cheese.

Posing in their birthday crowns with Chuck E. Cheese himself!

Posing with Chuck E. Cheese and some of their pals...

Park Play

The weather this week has been amazing! This is the exact reason why I left cold Northern NY and moved to Southeastern VA! We took advantage and spent a lot of time in a lot of different parks with pals this week.

Week in the Life...

I am so excited to embark on another Ali Edwards project. I had so much fun with her December Daily and through her blog I was introduced to Becky Higgins Project Life that I am currently working on. I can not wait to get started on Week in the Life!

http://www.aliedwards.com/2010/03/mark-your-calendar-week-in-the-life-2010.html

More St. Patty Day Crafting...

The boys made this cute St. Patty's Day macaroni necklace while Mommy made ANOTHER wreath. You can never have too many can you?

A ball of yarn, barrel pasta, green food coloring and a few foam shamrocks is all you need
Add 6 drops of food coloring and one teaspoon of water to a plastic bag and toss in a handful of pasta and let them shake till their little hearts are content

Leave all the dyed pasta spread out to dry on sheets of wax paper-it does not take long-15 minutes to half an hour

Stringing their necklaces

Displaying their creations

I bought another grapevine wreath, spent $3 total on the marked down flower's at AC Moore & spent $2 on a bow ($3.99-and I used a 50% off coupon) at Michaels and tah-dah...

another St. Patty wreath...

It's party time...

Tomorrow is the twins fourth birthday party! All they have been asking for for months is to have their party at Chuck E. Cheese's and tomorrow is the big day!

The can not wait to party with their pals, the mouse and most importantly get to wear their inflatable birthday crowns, play games and eat Chuck E. Cheese cake!

Yet another set of St. Patty kid crafts...

I'm so glad that the twinkies are crafty or at least like to craft almost as much as Mommy! In my opinion you can never have too many cute little holiday projects going on. Here is another St. Patrick Day craft the kiddos made.
I came across this idea in my online travels last week-I thought that I had saved it in my favorites but can't seem to find the link to give the creator credit with our wet coffee filter creation.

All you need are some blue & yellow markers & some coffee filters (you need four filters per shamrock)...

Let the kiddos go wild scribbling all over them...
Then the magic happens when you spritz them with water: blue & yellow run together to make GREEN! We let them air dry over night...

Then you simply fold them in half and then half again into a shape like a slice of pie-put the slices together & you have a shamrock! We cut into the ends (making them almost heart shaped) added a button to the center and a stem before attaching them to a piece of yellow card stock...viola!

Remember these little clovers they made in the last post-well I thought they were so cute and needed to be displayed more permanently so they could be used year after year so...

We stained two pieces of wood-I let them "distress" them a bit with green & gold and then modge podged the clovers on top!