What I've Been Wearing

Sunday

This dress is another thredUP find. I was a little disappointed when I got it because it was just a tad too tight but thanks for Whole 30 it now fits!

Tuesday

This skirt is one of my favorites. I love it's volume and the way it twirls. I also love that the pattern is great for hiding spills and stains. It's a couple years old but is another purchase from thredUP.

Wednesday

We had some unseasonable warm days this week - I couldn't resist going sleeveless. This dress is from eShakti. Even though I don't need anymore dresses I'm saving my pennies up for a new one from eShakti. I'm mean really, can you ever have too many dresses? They have some fun new prints, I like this one and this one. I also enjoy that I can customize their dresses to my taste...hello pockets!

Thursday

We brought along BabyZ but Jeremy and I had a bit of a date night on Thursday. One of our friends, Anna, had a closing reception for her gallery. We ate a picnic dinner at Jeremy's work and then headed in to Chicago. BabyZ cried for most of the drive but once we arrived he was all smiles...the kid puts on such a good show, nobody will believe when I try them what a terror he can be. ;)

Saturday

About a month ago VS had a combo sale on athletic leggings and sport bras. Usually, I'm not fan of their clothing - too many words and logos. I really liked the color of these leggings though and I had my birthday coupon so I took plunge.

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A Little Red Cardboard Barn

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago. I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own. I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it looked like the barn in our book The Big

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Preschool Syllabus: Dr. Seuss

Normally I'd do a Dr. Seuss unit in March around his birthday. We had to do one now though because on Saturday Big Buddy and I going on a date to a Dr. Seuss exhibit . The exhibit is only at the museum until January and I'm afraid if we don't go now we might not get the chance. We are of course reading lots of Dr. Seuss's books. A great advatage to studying Dr. Seuss in November rather than March is that all his books were available at the library. I also found a great children's biography which is perfect for preschoolers. Pebble First Biographies: Dr. Seuss We've read it a couple times and Big Buddy loves reciting all the facts he's learned WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS big buddy's name in sand paper letters, coloring pages & mazes from seussville.com skills practiced: fine motor, letter recognition, creativity, reading comprehension LEARNING "TRAYS" - I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy&#

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Jack-O-Lanterns on the Fridge

Last fall I saw the idea for refrigerator pumpkins with face pieces in FamilyFun Magazine and have been anxious to recreate them ever since. It was pretty quick and easy and since the only thing we didn't have on hand was magnetic sheets ($1.50 with coupon at Joann's) it was also very cheap. my supplies: magnetic sheets, orange & black construction paper, white pen, tacky glue *i know they have self adhesive sheets but my Joann's didn't carry them glued (very messily) and ready to cut Both the boys were quite enthused when they discovered them after rest time :) Hopefully it will keep them entertained until we carve real pumpkins.

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