Busy February!

It really had been a blast being able to stay at home this month. Being new to this stay-at-home mom thing I am finding myself looking for daily activities, and ideas to keep my busy Lil Peanut entertained. I cannot wait for warmer weather to get here! Entertaining indoors is a challenge at times. If anyone reading this has any great ideas I'd love to hear from you. Here are just a few pictures of what we've been up to.

Decorating the tree and other Xmas shenanigans

We had a great time decorating our Charlie Brown tree this year. We couldn't find a slim scrawny tree this year at the lots, so we bought a cheap Walmart tree and cut a bunch of branches out to make it our own. I think it turned out pretty great! We also were lucky to catch the Parade of Lights in downtown. Lil Peanut had a blast! We ended the last few holiday weeks with a visit with Santa. Check out how excited he is! 

A Trip to the Zoo

Lil Peanut enjoyed a nice afternoon at the Denver Zoo. His few favorite highlights were the train ride, carousel, and seeing the dragons (the Komodo Dragon that is). It was a hot and humid day and we found relief in the shaded penguin exhibit and the gorilla house. We ended the day gazing at the giraffes. It's a great, cheap family fun filled activity.

Summer Time

Instead of always having to pull out the swimming pool and fill it up, this year I bought Lil Peanut a water table in addition to his swimming pool. He loves this because there a bunch of cups, funnels, and boats to play with. He can experiment and learn through play. And the best part is he can still get soaked and it's half the mess!

Two years...

My Lil Peanut turned TWO yesterday. I can hardly believe how quickly those two years have gone. We have conquered many obstacles in those two years and we did it together. I couldn't be more happy at where we are at in this journey and we have some great goals ahead of ourselves for 2013.

For his birthday we invited his school friends to a day of fun at an indoor jump place. They had a great time running around, going down the slides, and bouncing around in the jump castles. To end they enjoyed some homemade cupcakes ;) of course here are some pictures of Lil Peanuts day!

Pumpkin Peanut Fun!

Pumpkin craving has got to be one of my most favorite things of the season! I'm pretty sure Lil Peanut enjoys it also!

Helpin Momma

Cheese Grin ;)

Pumpkins at Papa and Mimi's

Scoopin

Had to be in Batman PJ's afterwards

Picking seeds from his toes

Marylin Look

Starting early with the scooping

Working on his Monsters Inc. Pumpkin

Pullin out the guts. Ewwww!

Pumpkins at home ;)

Fun project!

For all the mommies out there that need a new fun activity to do outside I've got a great one for y'all! Painting with rocks! I grabbed a couple of pre made canvases and some inexpensive acrylic paints from Hobby Lobby  Then I rounded up an old plastic tablecloth for a drop cloth and then found some old Easter egg dye cups to put the paint in. Then I let Lil Peanut pick out the rocks he wanted to paint with from the backyard. I stripped him down to his diaper and let the creative juices flow!

He thought it was the neatest thing.

And of course I have pictures of our fun time ;)

Pool Time

Happy June everyone!

Pool season has officially arrived. Papa had the day off on Monday and cleaned and filled Lil Peanuts swimming pool. By the time I got home from work and Lil Peanut from daycare the water was warm and ready for some splashing! Here are a few pictures of Peanuts first time in the pool this season ;)