Birthday Invitation Photo Shoot

Lorelai and I had some fun today taking pictures for her birthday party invitations.  I had the idea to have her hold signs that say "Please come to my", "2nd", "birthday party" and then put all those pictures on the invitation.  Here are some of her best shots from our photo shoot.  After we got the pictures we needed, I let her play with bubbles as a reward.

 "Please come to my"

 "2nd" 

 "Birthday Party!"

 I love this one!  The look on her face because she spotted a bubble that she didn't know was there!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Lorelai didn't like wearing a bow in her hair, but I managed to snap a few pictures before she ripped it out and messed up her hair.  She's a diva for sure.

 Finn didn't want me to take his picture.  I kept telling him to smile but he wouldn't look at the camera.  Oh well!  What should I expect when Sponge Bob is on?!

This was her saying "GREEN!"  I told her to say "green" instead of "cheese".

Cupcakes and Bath Time Fun

This week on my day off, we decided to make some cupcakes.  Finnegan loves chocolate cupcakes with NO icing.  So we made chocolate mufffins and called them cupcakes.  In my opinion, it's not a cupcake if there isn't any icing!  They helped me pour all the ingredients in and stir it up.  Then Finn helped me spoon the batter into the muffin tins.  Oh...and they helped lick the bowl and spoon!

I gave her a little bowl of the extra batter to eat.  She was in heaven.

The finished product.

We had to wait for them to cool so we took some pictures.  Finnegan wanted to make faces and have me take a picture of every face he could think of.

Go CATS!

The cupcakes were a little messy so we had to take a bath.  That, and they had been playing outside a lot the day before so we were really dirty.  I let them take a bubble bath in my bathtub so they would have more room to play.  They loved it!

Warm Weather Water Colors!

The weird weather continues....but this time we were thrilled!  It was 70 degrees and sunny today!  So we put up a baby gate out on the covered deck and played out there.  I brought my computer so I could work and Finnegan kicked a ball around, colored, played with stickers and blew bubbles.  Then Lorelai woke up and we decided to bring out the water color paint!  They loved it.  Lorelai had fun just putting water on the brush and wetting the paper.  She didn't care about the paint at first, just the water.  Finn did great with it.  He didn't like getting messy so he was really careful.  

So first we started with bubble blowing with our bubble gun.   

He kept trying to blow them around after he made them with the gun.  Amazing how much kids love bubbles!

Once Lorelai woke up, we got out the water color paint!

As you can see, Lorelai wasn't shy about touching the paint or the water.  She wanted to be as messy as she could!

Lorelai's "picture" was just really wet (so you can see the coloring book underneath).  

He was worried because he got a little bit of paint on his hand.  We had to wash it off immediately.

Really concentrating hard with the tongue and everything.

This look is classic Lorelai.  She was looking around to see if we were watching her as she put her entire hand in the water and then dumped it over.  She is rotten!

 ART GALLERY

Finnegan's first water color painting.

We used a white crayon to draw an invisible picture (you can see I wrote Finnegan's name and then he scribbled).  Then we used the "magic paint" to reveal the invisible picture!  His only complaint was that he couldn't see what he wrote so he didn't know how to draw good pictures.  He just had to scribble.

These two are more Finnegan masterpieces.  He used a sponge to make all the circles and another one to make the lines.  He loved the sponges.

The next two are the ones Lorelai did.  I helped her a with make sure there was paint on it.  She really wanted to dip in the water AFTER she put paint on so she was washing all the paint off.  Once she saw what the paint did she didn't want anymore water.

I told him to draw a rainbow and he said he didn't know how.  So I drew one and he used it as a guide of what to do.  He is very "by the book" and doesn't like to do something if it's not "right".  So here is his perfect rainbow.  When he was done he said with a huge grin, "I think you're going to want to put THIS on the fridge!"  Of course it will be on the fridge!