Football

My kids are both involved with our local peewee football all league Jones plays and thea is a cheerleader.  This consumes up soooo much of our evenings and weekends from like end of July on into October.  

They both love it so much.  It’s been a great way for them to form close bonds with their friends as well as meet new people.  In addition they are learning sportsmanship.  This season thea is cheering for a winning team and poor Jones’s team has been struggling they have had only one win and that was when We had rona.  

Holidays in Denver

Over the holidays we went to Denver for almost two weeks.  While it seemed long it was fun to spend time with my siblings and nieces and nephews.  It was a crazy Christmas for sure.  We hit up a few museums, the pool several playgrounds, played pretend, hiked, played games and more.  I wanted to write up a full post about it but I don’t have a stream of real thoughts so here’s a few photos.  

Art Club Santa Gnomes

Over the weekend we made some Santa gnomes.  We used scrap chipboard I had saved, scrap fabric and foil leaf.  I drew the shape on the chipboard and gathered small fabrics.  They got really excited about the foil and liked rolling it into balls aka bells. 

I love how their projects turned out they are so cute.  

I put them inside of frames I had minus the glass because of the raised bells.  And hung them up in the hallway.  They are so fun.  

30 Fairy House

One of the things on our list was to make or get fairy houses.  We have 1 bazillion places we could have a fairy garden in our almost an acre yard so we may end up with more fairy houses in other places too.  I bought birdhouses on sale at the craft store.

We painted the houses.  Jones and Thea did the bases and some of the decoration and I helped encourage them to add patterns like stripes and dots and flowers to decorate them a bit more.  And I finished them off and put a coat of sealant on them.  We also found a old birdhouse in a honey suckle bush we removed and put it with them too.  

Jones calls this one the “mayors house” I like his camo he made for it. 

This one is one of Theas I love how she made a rainbow on the front and left the fairy a berry to eat. And that little stone path.

Here’s the random birdhouse.  Jones planted it wheat!

And these little ones are in the ficus tree.  The round one is Theas.

Anyhow it’s such a fun addition to the yard and we have since also painted acorns to add for the fairy’s as well.

9 -on The Potty Train

Finally!!  She’s on what she calls the Potty Train.  After several failed attempts in getting her to potty train.  She finally there aside from an occasional accident. She’s been actually doing really well overnight I think we will phase out overnight diapers soon too.  Huzzah.  

I literally have no secrets, bribes didn’t work on her, nor did rewards, or praise, or just going every 30 minutes.  The promise of preschool at an actual school did entice her but I am not really sure that did it either.  Anyhow good job Thea lady you did it.