Hot Mess Mama!

Okay--so as cute as I think babies are I LOVE that D has turned 1! I'm just so excited that his vocabulary will start growing, and he's exploring and learning new things all the time. I'm most excited that I've discovered some crafts to do with him! I'm a neat-freak but when it comes to D there are no restrictions on messes. So, I was looking up things to do with him and I went to Walmart and searched the aisles. I picked him up Crayola Jumbo Crayons, a coloring book, and some finger paint. I second guessed myself thinking that he was still too little for these things, but decided to give it a shot. I started with the coloring. I used painters tape to tape the page down so he didn't rip it, etc. He wasn't sure what to do, so I sat down next to him with a picture of my own to demonstrate. He started to see what I was doing and gave it a whirl (okay, so he mostly just banged the crayons onto the paper, haha, but it worked) We do this at least three tim...

So I didn't have internet for a little bit, then I did, but it went out for daysss, then we switched providers, then they sent us the wrong modem and long story short, it's been a while for various reasons! :) But I'm glad to be back. I've got a few things I want to update with. First I would like to start with D's playroom! When we moved in almost 7 months ago, the room was pink. When we tried to paint it red, we realized it was too close on the color wheel and the red did not cover all of the pink (even though we primed the wall and had primer in the paint!) so we had redish walls for a while! I started painting it white with some left over paint I had, but the paint smelt terrible, so I stopped (afterall, it was D's playroom, and that room has a window but the window goes to a storage room and not a real window, so no ventilation)  Well, fast forward a few months and the room still looked like that! I wanted to make it into a nice playroom for D. So I sent ...