Starting Her Young

Kara wanted to help Daddy work in the garage (where he does his business LZ Engraving) and so he put her to work.






If you make it through this entire video, you are either family, or have been tricked into watching it, because it's pretty boring!

Hula Hoop Girl

Kara's new favorite past time is doing her hula hoop. Or rather, showing people how well she can hula hoop.

See for yourself. (I didn't know I was in the frame FOLDING LAUNDRY...but oh well. Focus on the cute 4 year old doing her thing!)


Also, I want to send a shout out to 6 year old Tyler who taught her how!!!

WFMW-Kid's crafts

Here's are latest Christmas craft. I'm looking for some more ideas, so comment if you have any good preschool crafts.

We made this wreath by first cutting a hole in the middle of a paper plate (no picture, sorry)

Then we (as in I) cut green tissue paper (and some red) into squares.

We wrapped the paper around our fingers (or a pencil), dipped it in some glue and applied it to the paper plate wreath.

It was a fun project. Please share your Christmas crafts or links to good sites. Thanks.

For more ideas, go here.

Operation Christmas Child Year 2

Kara and I had a great time last year packing our Operation Christmas Child shoebox, so I had high expectations for this year's experience.

Hmmm....I'd better watch those expectations. For some reason, (maybe it was because I forgot about it so we had to rush through it to get it in on time, or maybe she was having a bad hair day) Kara wasn't as into it.

She still did it, with sorta a smile.

And we sent it off and are praying for the recipient.

Shower Favors

First a caveat. My camera is mostly broken. So most pictures turn out like this:
Yep...that's me...just blurry!

But sometimes I can get a few decent ones like the day Kara and I recently made favors for my friends baby shower.They turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself.

This is her enjoying some of the chocolate as a reward for all her hard work!

Our Thankful Tree (and teeth)

Kara and I made a Thankful Tree. I stole this idea from another blog (don't remember where...sorry!). The leaves are all the things that she is thankful for.

Here's when we started...

Notice the ONE missing tooth:



And today we finally finished it.

A closeup of some of the leaves (decorated with stickers and glitter, of course)
And here are TWO missing teeth.

Cupcake Party

My local MOPS discussion group hosted a Cupcake decorating party.

Here's the process...




The final product...



The reward....YUM!