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

 

SITTING UP BRINGS ON A WHOLE NEW WORLD

Gryphin wants to eat the grass while sitting on a blanket outside enjoying the nice weather.

 

He wants to eat the water and wash cloth while sitting up in the bath tub for the first time.

PRE GAME WARM UP

 

SIX MONTH CHECKUP

Gryphin's six month check up was on thursday.  He now weighs 17.8 pounds 46%. He is 27 3/4" tall 86% and his head measures 43 1/2cm 39%.

 

Look how chubby he is in this picture.

 

FACE PLANT

He's almost got it. Can sit up for a lot longer now. Get's tired, fusses, and then just falls over.

APRIL FOOLS DAY

We've been talking about April 1st as April Fools day and how you play pranks on people. I packed Violet's lunch with plastic food. She uses those bento boxes for lunch. It has two compartments, top and bottom. The bottom contains her real lunch. I wish I could see her expression when she opens her lunch today.

 

This morning I gave her cereal for breakfast. Not uncommon. Except I froze it over night.

 

I discovered Violet does not like being tricked at 6:00am. She had a fit when I started taking pictures. Full on crying.

 

I stuffed her shoes at the toes with toilet paper. She didn't like that either. Threw the toilet paper at us.

HONESTY AWARD & GRADE CARD

We finally made it to a school assembly.  Violet was awarded a certificate for Honesty. Each classroom has a kid chosen. She was very excited when she found out last week and has been waiting all school year to get an award. The above pic is of the Kindergartener's coming into the gym last.

 

Getting her certificate.

 

Yay!!

 

 

 

Violet also brought home her report card yesterday. Another perfect report card!! It was noted that she is reading above grade level! Awesome! We are so proud! Maybe with that stated she will be more confident about reading. She tells me all the time she can't read something. Then I ask her to look again and try. She can read just fine but for some reason she thinks she can't. She even already knows 3/4 of her 4th quarter site words but tells me she doesn't know them. Maybe this summer we'll work on reading confidence.

FABSITS BABIES

Grandpa Fabsits                                                Uncle John

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Gryphin is definitely a Fabsits baby. He has the Fabsits jaw line. He really looks like Grandpa Fabsits' photo. Gryphin's photo might not be the best to compare, I could not find a photo of him with his head in the same position.

PRACTICE SITTING UP

We've been working on sitting up lately. He's able to hold it longer and longer before falling over.

 

Do I catch him or take a picture? Take the picture :).

 

He thinks this is a game.

MONSTER TOOTH FAIRY PILLOW

I've been meaning to make a pillow for a while now. Violet has a slightly wiggly tooth. In fact the adult tooth has already started to come in behind the baby tooth. We've been telling her to try and wiggle the baby tooth often.

The tooth pillow has a zipper for a mouth. She can put her tooth in his mouth and the Tooth Fairy can put her money in it too. I made it so it can hang off her bed and not have to be placed under her pillow.

 

I haven't made any plushies in a while and enjoyed making this guy. I've just been to busy or to tired to make anything lately.