CAMPOUT

We had our overnight camp out Saturday night into Sunday.

Lots of fun. Lots of walking. Lots of activities. Little sleeping.

 

At the last minute our girls decided they wanted to sing at the camp fire talent show. Sang Make New Friends (the only song they really know. We need to get on learning some more) in front of 150+ kids and adults. Yes...even Violet.

 

Where sleeping is supposed to take place.

 

FAIRY GARDEN 2.0

So monday I decided to move the house. It is now on the deck under the pergola. Not so out in the elements. I feared hail would damage the roof. It's ceramic but the edges of the roof leaves are thin. I bought a large planter and it sits on a little wooden table on the deck just right outside the door. The planter measures about 24" and is nice and shallow so we could actually pick this thing up and it's not to heavy.

  

We planted some mini plants in with the house, added some mulch and pebble rock from our landscaping. 

 

I want to have tea there. Violet keeps looking out the window to see if the Fairies have moved in yet. Looks like I'll have to play Fairy;)

FLOWERS AND FAIRIES

We got the fairy house up. Friday night we went searching for twigs to make a bridge. Added our toadstools and blue glass too. Now Violet wants to make furniture.

 

Yesterday we planted the flowers we bought thursday. I did not plant our tomato or pepper plants. We're supposed to have really bad storms today and the last thing I need is for them to get destroyed. Granted I know that can happen anytime but I'd prefer it not to happen the day after I plant them.

 

FAIRY GARDEN

This evening we went to Heartland Nursery to pick up marigolds, tomato plants and pepper plants for this weekend.  Violet knows that this is the Nursery with the Fairy garden set up. They've had it for two years now. Every year she wants to make one and frankly so do I. I always tell her maybe next year because it's all crazy expensive. There's tons of houses to pick and all kinds of accessories. 

All we could afford to buy was a ceramic house and I thought it was crazy expensive. So we've decided to make everything else.

 

This evenings project was the making of the toadstools. We made them out of sculpy and wire. These same sized toadstools were 2.99 a piece! I'll clear coat these before sticking them in the ground. They might not last forever but it sure beats spending that amount of $. We're going to check the wooded area for twigs and rocks next. Make a bridge maybe some furniture. We have a bunch of blue glass dragons tears that we're going to use as water. More pics to come.

EASTER MORNING

Diapers, wipes, socks, onsie, books and a bunny.

 

Though it looks like a lot of candy, there is not that much. Our bunny always brings socks and underwear. All the eggs are filled with socks.

 

  

Violet had to work a little harder this year to find her basket. The Easter bunny left it in her play house.

 

 

 

 

 

RUSTIC CIRCLE EGG HUNT

Setting all the eggs out. Every yard on our street looked like this.

This years bunch.

 

Ready. Set. Go.

 

Hey...where's my chocolate?

FIRST SEWING PROJECT

Violet has a Girl Scout camp out coming up and we decided to make a pillow case for her pillow. It's more like a pillow sham and she'll be able to tuck her sheet inside.  This was the perfect first sewing project for her. Only straight lines. Not complicated. A quick 30-45 minute project. Anything longer and she'd loose interest.

 

Learning to use the iron.

 

I really did very little to help. I did have push the petal because she can't reach it. I work standing at a counter. It's to tall and she can't really stand on a stool and push the petal.

I have learned that because she's left handed I kept standing on the wrong side of her to show her how to do something.

 

Pinning. Not her favorite part.

 

Finished! She wants to make a night time hair scrunchy with the left over scraps. Maybe next weekend.

THE TOOTH FAIRY WAS IN OUR HOUSE!!

The tooth is finally out. The new tooth is almost completely in. Dentist told me a few weeks ago, when I was in for a checkup, that if the new tooth was as tall as the baby tooth she'd have to pull the baby tooth. At that time the baby tooth was barely wiggly. Since then she's been really working at getting it to move. 

Violet had her checkup yesterday and new that the dentist may have to pull it. It was so wiggly that we knew it was only a matter of a few days before it would come out on its own. She went ahead and asked to have it pulled. Very brave.

 

Teeny tiny.

 

 

So the Tooth Fairy left five dollars in gold coins. I drove to every Commerce bank in Lee's Summit to find these. Finally at the last bank they said they had some and I took them all.

I found some cute ideas on Pintrest. One was the receipt idea. The Tooth Fairy leaves a documented receipt of the transaction. She also left a note stating that she is receiving $5 because she was brave at the dentist but every tooth after this one is only one gold coin.

 

She will receive a receipt every time. Of course I've made more work for myself.

 

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This BLEW her mind. We caught the Tooth Fairy on video! Chris told her he'd leave his phone in her room and film the Tooth Fairy coming. We told her chances of catching her would be slim ;)

The video was created by a friend at work using After Effects. It's just a still photo we took of her room. He added the flying light to create the animation. She watched it over and over this morning.

 

Then we discovered this. A Fairy door. She must have come in this way.

Doll house door painted and and glittered the door. She desperately wanted to open it.

 

It disappeared before she even left for school.

 

Her loot.

 

I made her a Tooth Fairy diary. The Tooth Fairy doesn't get credit for this one.

Took a small photo book and decorated it.

 

Inside she can add a photo of every lost tooth along with the receipt and note from the Tooth Fairy.

SEVEN MONTH PHOTO