Build-A-Bear

Over the weekend while at our local "mega mall", Hayden made his first "build-a-bear" and had a great time. He picked a Panda bear, helped stuff it, picked out clothes and then named him. He is very much into action figures right now so it was no surprise that he chose the Spiderman outfit and named him Spider Panda... Too cute!!!

Home-made Crayons

I came across a great idea for all of those broken crayons that seem to pile up at our house - make new crayons! Basically, you peel the crayons, place in a cooking tin that you don't mind not using again, bake on 200 for 18 minutes, cool, and voila! This was something that Hayden loved doing. To make these as gifts, I bought dollar store crayons and let Hayden break them up and decide what colors to go where. Great way to get them involved. Here are some pictures of the process.

Before baking...

After baking while cooling...

Voila!

Fun

I found this cute site where you enter your blog and it scans the words and creates this out of the most commonly used words. I love it.

Addie's Birthday

Hayden's cousin, Addison, turned 3 on November 15th and we partied hard (well, as hard as a 3 year old can party). She had a princess themed party with invitations made by yours truly.
All of the kids played and had a great time. Aunt Lacey did a great job with the cupcakes and snacks! Addison was so excited to open gifts. This girl got lots of loot!!! Here are a few pictures to capture the essence of being 3 and watching your "Grandpa" put together your pink "darbie" (not barbie, but darbie, as explained by Addie to me) horse with wings.




After presents and cake was the pinata! Boy can those kids swing a bat!!!

Here's Grandma playing with the birthday girl...

Bryson playing with girl toys. Hang on buddy, boy toys are coming your way!



Birthday girl with the darbie horse.


A tired Uncle Justin in his princess hat.

Overall, a great time was had by all! Happy Birthday little girl!!!!!

Everyone has a job

Hayden has a standing tradition of being the designated candle blowing helper on birthdays. Here's the evidence of our latest birthday...

The cake was great (made by Noona) and I'm sure everyone enjoyed a little slice of Hayden with each piece :)

Hello...Hello...Anyone still there?

We are alive, contrary to our absence in the blogging world. It's been rather crazy and not a whole lot going on at the same time. Hayden is pretty much at the age that it's what he says that is so amazing rather than what he does. Being 3 1/2 is hard business! Some of my favorite things he says...

Hayden: "Mom, I'm going to sleep in my belly tonight."
Translation: Mom, I don't want to sleep in my jammies tonight, just my underwear.

Hayden: "I'm going to punk"
Translation: I'm going to hit you (nice, I know)

Hayden (getting undressed for bath time and his shirt caught on his head): "Mom, this is my long hair"

Hayden: "My bottom popped."
Translation: Gas (lovely I know but he thinks it's hilarious)