My Family Loves It

Grandma Penguin got the boys each a little wood kit and last night we decided to put them together. The kits contained about a dozen wood pieces that you glue together and then can paint. Last night was the gluing stage and tonight will be painting.
I was a little unsure of the best [...]

Just wanted to share that Tipnut linked to us again today, this time for my Peanut Butter Chocolate Playdough post. We get quite a bit of traffic from John’s posts that they have used so we really like their site! Thanks Tipnut.

The photo booth is perfect for when you’re feeling goofy or bored. Sorry John but I had to post your freaky one! I put in a normal one to makeup for it (and a bad one of me too).

This is our first time joining in with Unplug Your Kids’ Unplugged Project (and I’m a day late but a power outage messed us up yesterday). Her theme this week was alphabet so we made some Jello Jigglers using letter cutters, they came out a little rough looking but the kids really liked them (and [...]

Ethan really surprised us with how quickly he took to basketball. He has loved all the sports he has tried but I feared basketball would be too hard for a 5 yr old. I was so glad he had a great coach who made learning the game simple and enjoyable. I’m so proud of [...]

Everyone seems to be anti-plastic when it comes to toys now, but our kids have so many wonderful plastic toys. We have some nice wooden puzzles and blocks but, other than those, none of their wooden toys thrill me (and they seem to break more). The whole thing with lead paint and bad chemicals is [...]

One of our favorite stops when running errands is the local pet store. To the kids, this is like visiting a miniature zoo and their favorite part is the salt water aquarium. Ethan took some nice fish pictures! Jamie really liked the turtles and rats.

Jamie does have an ear and sinus infection and she broke my heart yesterday afternoon with how sick and out of it she was. I had to get out my camera of course when she was so daintily sipping her motrin and then she had to give me the”you horrible mother, how can you be [...]

I am officially CRAZY but its fun! I had 4 friends over this week and their combined 9 kids. I took Monday off to recuperate from the flu fully but then I had the rest of the week booked with people coming over. Tuesday was my most ambitious day with 2 moms and 5 kids [...]