Fingerpainting Fun

Today for Toddler Time, we decided to try Hayden with fingerpaints for the first time. I must say, it could have been worse. 

The Set-Up: I taped down a large sheet of paper (we have a huge roll of "banner paper" 

that is perfect for this type of thing) and taped down a piece of cardboard (I cut 

ours from an unused gift box leftover from Christmas)

And poured some Crayola Washable Kids Paint 

onto the cardboard. I then laid out

brushes and a couple of plastic Easter Eggs and soft blocks to experiment with the pain(I pretty much figured he'd mostly use his hands anyway...)

Here is what it looked like:  

 

Then it was time to bring him in. I think I was more excited than he was...

(sorry its blurry, but he was spastic and let out a huge GASP)

(and we just let him be in a diaper, just in case)

 So I sat him down, showed him what it was a little and let him go: Here are a few of the "During" pictures:

At this point, he decided he didn't like being "dirty" anymore and was pretty much done.

Here's what the table/chair looked like after:

 Like I said, Could have been MUCH worse!

 

And THEN, it was bath time!!! Yayyy!!!! 

We used the Crayola fizzies that color the water for the first time. At first he wasn't sure, but then Daddy hooked up the bubble machine and bubble blowing gun and 

he had a blast:

Bathtime was a HUGE success :) Daddy bathed him while I cleaned up the mess

and got his snack ready.

 

All in all this was a GREAT activity. It kept him busy for about 20 minutes, which is AWESOME for an 18 month old. We will definitely be doing this again. :) Feel free to comment with any thoughts or ideas you have or with what you may have tried differently that worked with a similar activity. :) Hope you had a great Thursday!! 

First Post Ever!! Now...where do I begin???

After spending countless hours online looking at every "mommy blog" and homemaker blog I could have possibly been linked to, I finally decided that I would try this thing out for myself. Then came the search for which blogger to use, and surely enough, I just kept getting sucked into a deeper hole of information that I had begun to not even have any idea what to do at all. So I figured I would go ahead and start writing and see how this goes. My personal goal for this blog is to basically go through our days and show what works for us. We have two small children (Hayden, currently 18 months and Harley, currently just 3 weeks old!!) Since we're not sleeping much these days anyway, I should have plenty of time at night to write in these blogs. Basically, we have a daily schedule (HA! We TRY to have a daily schedule) of cleaning, cooking, bottle feedings, diaper changes, "toddler time", "tummy time", naps, baths and bedtime routines. And somehow in the middle of that, both of us are full-time students. (I am 21 and Andrew, my honey, is 24). Well...I can see that I'm beginning to ramble, you'll learn plenty about us during the course of this blog. My first section will feature activities we do with the toddler, and I plan to incorporate our new "home organization binder" and the journey to making it work for us, and somewhere in between, a section on making "us" work after the "us" doubled so quickly. So wish me luck and bear with me! This is going to be fun! (I hope...)