Play Room: Take 2

It is done! (And yes it was complete two months ago.....it's catch up blog time.)

The kids love their playroom.  Liberty immediately sat down at the table by our rain gutter bookshelves and pulled a book off the shelf.  Preston found his niche at the train table.  Hallister bounces all around that room, but mainly likes to sit at his desk and draw.

I am so very thankful to have such a talented husband who worked just about every weekend for three month's on this room, and even sometimes when he came home from work.  We had three different contractors give us quotes on it, but we knew we could save money doing it ourselves.  Moving all the toys into the room helped us weed some out toys with what the kids don't play with as much anymore, or baby toys.  We have tried to keep it simple and make them be thankful for all the toys they do have.  They don't need to get overstimulated.  I got to pick out the paint colors.  It all turned out so nice.

Right now we have the laptop in the playroom, but do hope to be able to mount a TV on the wall eventually.  They do enjoy learning shows on Netflix, like Leap Frog and Sesame Street.  Liberty has started to say Elmo a lot or Diesel, which means she wants to watch Thomas & Friends.  We do want to limit their TV time though and have them enjoy their many toys they can learn with, and use their imagination.

Thanksgiving 2013

 

We hosted Thanksgiving for the first year at our house with my Mom's side of the family and it went really well!  We actually only made one dessert and everyone else brought the big parts of the meal.  We cleaned our house and had our playroom ready to show off.  It was so nice not having to load up in the car to go somewhere, worrying about forgetting stuff and how miserable Liberty would be without a nap. 

Thankfully it was a nice day so we got to play outside.  We have had to do so much work on our house but having people over made us appreciate it all the more.  We are thankful for our huge backyard, our playroom, new updates to our kitchen and our new back porch. We are so thankful for our family who chose to drive to our house to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Hopefully we can host again next year as well.

Liberty Turns 2!

(I know, I know WAY LATE.)

We had Liberty's 2nd birthday at Jump n Place.  It was a lot of fun.  Basically the adults got to visit while the kids played on bouncy slides and bouncy houses.  Fearless Liberty did it all.  We have called her "Lil Stinker" as long as we can remember, so it just seemed appropriate to go with the stunk theme for her party.  Everything turned out really cute.

Liberty is a go-getter.  She wants to do everything her brother's do.  She is SO SMART.  Thanks to listening to Hallister she can count up to 20.  When you ask her a question she will answer bluntly the way she feels.  For example, "Liberty do you want some more food."  She answers, "No", very matter-of-factually. The boys always take time to think about their answers, and are wishy washy, but Liberty knows exactly what she wants or doesn't want, and she is not afraid to express herself.  She says "Diesel" or "Veggiebales" and points to the TV.  That means she wants to watch Thomas, Day of the Diesels or Veggietales.

Lib loves to clean.  She will sneak into her room (that she shares with the boys), steal the container of wipes, take wipes out and start "cleaning" the coffee table.  She now likes to feed the dogs in the morning.  It so cute, she doesn't like the pieces of dog food to not make it in the bowl so she will pick them up individually and place it in front of Wriley or Ranger wherever they are laying.  She also enjoys puzzles.

She has been going to Mother's Day Out and every time I go to pick her up someone tells me how happy she always is.  Even with other kids crying she is laughing or will try to cheer them up.  She is a joy, and usually even sweet to her brother's, bringing them a snack or their drink cup.  But if they take something from her then IT IS ON. :)

We love our Lil' Bit, Lil' Stinker, Libby Lou and our so proud God chose us to raise this Lil' Lady.