Happy Halloween

 I think it is no secret my daughter loves to dress up. This year for Halloween she wanted for everyone to dress up in frozen costumes. Luckily, I had an old prom dress that looked like Elsa. We got Lyla's dress from Disney and the wigs from Amazon. I sewed Tyler's Kristoff tunic from an old DI sweater. It all worked out great!

Lyla loved having both Tyler and I dress up with her it was so cute! Tyler doesn't like dressing up but it hard to resist Lyla's excitement. I'm pretty sure Halloween in her favorite Holiday. Here are some pictures from our Ward Trunk or Treat and Halloween.

Monster Fun!

We have been doing a lot of arts and crafts lately. I think it is great how much little kids love creating things! Lately Lyla has watched a little bit of Monsters Inc. At first I really regretted it because she was waking me up at 3am saying there were monitors in her closet. As a result, I have really tried to stress that monsters are nice.

One night I cut out a bunch of colorful monsters for Lyla to decorate. The best toy for toddlers is a stack of construction paper. You can do so many things!

Then I found these awesome eyeballs and mustaches at Target. They have these adorable pumpkin decorating kits.

I pulled out some glitter and stickers and we were set!

We had a great time and I think they turned out super cute. I thought it would be fun this Halloween season for Lyla to decorate her room with the things she creates. The Monsters were a great addition to her wall.

Happy Monday!

-BreAnne

Making Cardboard Castles

Oh last week was just sad. Sometimes I feel like my 2 year old acts like a teenager. Seriously. She talks back to me or when I call for her in the house she irritably yells back "what!?!" We needed to work on our attitude a little. It didn't help that Dad had to work very late all week. Well, one late afternoon, when the park just didn't sound fun, I gathered all the cardboard boxes we recently got from Amazon and grandma packages. I took all of them apart, got a big roll of duct tape, and started forming a castle.

I got out all of Lyla's finger paint and set out a mat so we could paint it in the garage. My favorite was my make shift apron I made her out of a garbage sack!

She and I had so much fun doing this. We laughed, talked, and painted for hours (the teenager in her disappeared). I would recommend this activity for everyone! It is funny in the end I thought some might consider our castle a "pinterest fail." It isn't very cute and kind of looks like a mess, but I let my child tape it up with me and paint it however she wanted it. So to me its a big win!

Look at that smile! It is so hard to catch it on camera, but when I do it melts me. This was such a fun day.

-Bre

Fall Toddler Activities

 

 Something I like to do at night is watch TV. What? Did I just admit that? Yes I did. But here is the thing. I feel guilty watching TV if I am not doing something productive. SO I try to come up with creative games for Lyla, sew,  or write blogs! Let me just admit that is my crafting time. 

Last week I looked at a bunch of different fall games on pinterest. Does anyone else find some those blogs overwhelming?  It is like 50 different activities and the pages have just a bunch of different links to other blogs. Nevertheless, there are some good ideas. So I pulled out my scissors and construction paper and starting cutting. I put these two activities in ziplock bags and pulled them out on a day we needed a fun activity. 

 )Yeah I know the pictures are kind of blurry. But I have a 2 year old... and she moves around a lot. Oh how I love her!)

I left them on the wall for Lyla to play with through out the week. She also loves to share her art with her Daddy when he gets home. 

Happy Fall!

-Bre