Bunny time!

With Easter next weekend, Jack and I wanted to do another Easter craft!  We got this great idea from http://funnydayswithmommyandmaddie.blogspot.com/ ! 

I just happened to have a toilet paper roll in Jacks craft bins, figuring I would need it someday for a craft!  I'm glad I did!!   We painted it white and put it aside to dry. 

While we were waiting, we cut bunny ears out of white craft foam, then Jack added purple glitter to it's ears!!  After everything was dry, we stuck the ears on the top, added pipe cleaner whiskers, a button nose, and used a marker for the mouth and teeth!  What a cute idea!!  Thanks Amanda and Maddie for sharing it with us!

And speaking of cute little bunnies.....

Check out Jack in his Easter bunny ears he got at the mall today...they were kind of like the consolation prize for the kids whose parents refused to pay $22.00 for a picture with the Easter Bunny.  Sorry Jack, I just couldn't see spending that much money on a picture...but at least he waved 'hello' to you!!  Besides, maybe  we'll get to see him at the Easter egg hunt tomorrow.....

My little sick guy....

For the last few days, Jack has been pretty sick.  He seems to have his moments during the day where he acts fine and is happy, then others when he's sick and miserable. 

I needed to watch my nephew this morning for an hour, and thankfully, Jack seemed very happy to play with Luke for a while....the boys played with the train set that Jack got for Christmas and had a blast!

After a little while, I could tell Jack was losing his steam...Luke was too for that matter, he's sick too!  The boys climbed up on the couch and watched Diego for a while until Luke went home.

Jack also went to the doctor today, his cough was pretty bad, and he had a bit of a fever.  I figured I would nip it in the bud...get Jack on medicine and he'd be fine for Easter!  No such luck...apparently, it's just a virus and it has to run it's course.  How long?  Well, the doctor said it could be weeks.....LOVELY!

The one plus-side to today was that Jack fell asleep on me for the first time in well over a year!  It reminded me of the days when I would just rock him in my arms until he fell asleep when he was little.  He crawled up to my lap while I was on the couch and within minutes, I could tell he was asleep.  My camera was right there on the table next to me, so I took a few shots....I miss those days!!!!  Look at his sweet little face....

By the way, that is a chicken nugget in his hand....I snagged it before it fell!  :)

My sweet baby...hope you get better soon....I love you!

More sick days.....

Jack has been sick the last couple of days, but we still tried to do some fun things to keep a smile on his face!

Yesterday, we made a GIANT cupcake!!  It was chocolate, with chocolate pudding in the middle and whipped cream frosting!!   YUMMMMMMMMY!!  (of course, Jack only eats the frosting & pudding!)

Jack made me a nice picture too....he's getting so good with his drawing and with writing his name!!  It's a picture of a flower with the sun shining above!  He wrote his name all by himself too!  I'm so proud of him!

We had some fun last night with Daddy too....we played with puzzles, and Daddy was intentionally putting the pieces in the wrong place to see what Jack would do!!  Jack was laughing so hard, it was funny!  Then our BIG dog Sasha decided she needed to be part of the family fun time too, and plopped herself down right next to her best buddy Jack!!

The big bag behind Jack??  Those were all of the clothes that Jack outgrew since last summer...my little guy is getting big!!  We're going to share them with a friend who has triplets!!

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Today, Jack missed out on going to the library toddler program.   He was too sick to go, but Miss Anne and Miss Kathy were nice enough to send home the craft for Jack to do!!  He was pretty excited...especially when he saw the plastic Easter Egg in it!  He loves those!

After having a pretty relaxing day today on the couch, we decided we better start making some Easter decorations for the house...Easter is in a week and a half!!!!

We did a nice simple one, seeing as Jack wasn't feeling the greatest.  I think it came out pretty good!  I cut  Easter eggs out of construction paper, and Jack colored them!!  We then got out the gluestick and stuck them on a paper plate with the center cut out....voila!!  An Easter wreath!!

We put it up on the french doors in the dining room so everyone can enjoy a little touch of spring!!

I think Jack did a great job!!

Lastly, Jack got a whole bunch of postcards this week from Postcrossing.com!!  He even got a mini calendar from a woman in Wales, showing all sorts of scenes from Wales.  Jack was so excited!!  Here are a couple of his favorite postcards from this week....

Fun weekend!

We had another beautiful couple of days this weekend! 

Saturday, Daddy and I decided to make an attempt at building the turbo twist slide for the playscape we built in the fall!  It wasn't meant for our particular set, so we knew it was going to be a challenge...and it was!

Jack was very patient though, playing outside in the sand box with his trucks and pails...for 5 hours!  He did get a little antsy at the end, and he hadn't had a nap, so he was a bit tired too... 
He pretty much started to take a nap on the tree house stairs...at this point, I don't think he could wait much more.

Thankfully, we were just about done at this point and then Jack got to take his first ride on the new slide!

I think it was definitely worth the wait for Jack....he LOVED it!!

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Today we took Jack and the girls to Jacks first hockey game!  We saw The Hartford Wolfpack play agains the Providence Bruins!  Daddy and I used to go to the Bruins games in Providence a lot before Jack was born, but this was the first time seeing a game since!

I think that Jack was more interested in the Wolf mascot, which only showed up between periods.  He did like the nachos and ice cream though.  He did watch part of the game, but I think that at 3 years old, it just didn't make any sense to him.

Here's a couple of shots we took at the game!

Spring has sprung!

This week has been beautiful!!  The weather has been in the 60's and it's been sunny for days!!

On Wednesday, which was also St. Patricks day, we had our library program in the morning where the kids got to make a pot of gold with gold coins in it!!  Jack loved making that!!

Afterwards, we headed down to Fort Shantok to meet up with Auntie Scoot and Riley!!  We played on the playground, had a picnic lunch and walked the trail around the pond! 

Here are a few pictures from our park visit!

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Yesterday, Jack and I headed out to find a new geocache that was hidden only 4 miles from our house!!  The best part?  The park where is was located had a playscape!!

When we got there, I was eager to be the 'first to find', since no one had yet discovered it, so I convinced Jack that we would play on the playscape 'soon'!!  We headed into the woods, but my iPhone's GPS isn't as accurate as our Garmin GPS and we ended up walking in circles...until I tried to carry Jack over a little muddy area and ended up about a foot deep in MUD!

Well, that sounded like a good time to go play on the playscape and have the picnic lunch I brought. 

Jack really liked this 'cave', which was really the back side of the rock wall...it had a really cool dinosaur fossil!  We decided to give the geocache another shot, and headed towards the woods again...then another geocacher pulled up, hopped out of his car and walked directly to it!  We ended up talking for a few minutes, and walked away as the 'second to find'. 

On the way back to the car, Jack spotted a snake!  I'm not really a big fan of snakes, but Jack didn't seem to be bothered by him.  I always try to look 'cool' and say things like "Wow, isn't that an awesome snake, he's really cute" and "we should really have a closer look!"  Thankfully, he was a little one!  I had to convince Jack that we shouldn't touch snakes unless Daddy helps...so Jack studied him for a few minutes and we headed out on our next adventure.

We headed to another geocache that was at a monument in Norwich for Miantonomo.  He was was a chief of the Narragansett tribe of New England Indians.  Jack made the find on this one!  He found it quickly, we signed the log and headed out to our last treat of the day......

Our last stop was Hanks Dairy Bar in Plainfield!  It was opening day and we could really go for some ice cream!!  Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!  This is someplace where I have a feeling we will end up often!

St. Patricks Day Party then rainbow cupcakes

This morning we had a St. Patricks Day playdate!  The kids had some play time first, then Miss Rebecca read a story about St. Patricks Day!  We then made a really cute shamrock craft before having rainbow cake and green juice!!

This is Jack and his friend having fun together in the playhouse!!

The craft was coloring a shamrock then putting on pieces of green paper with a glue stick!  It was a perfect craft, you know Jack and the gluestick!!

The cake was a bundt cake with rainbow colors!!  We thought that was pretty funny because we had planned on going home and making rainbow cupcakes!!

Jack did most of the work making the cupcakes...the hardest part was dividing up the batter between six bowls and coloring them all different colors!!  I then poured the colors into the cupcake liners and stuck them in the oven!!  I think they came out pretty cool, and Jack was VERY impressed!  He frosted them 'fluffy cloud white' and our snack was done!!

Check these out!!

It's our rainbow leading to the pot of gold...now where is the leprechaun??

Rainy day craft, and postcards!

Today is the fourth straight day of rain and wind....Jack is getting a little tired of being stuck inside, especially after all of that beautiful weather we had last week!  We decided to do a little spring craft today...a little baby lamb!  I thought it would remind us of warmer days to come!

I think it came out pretty cute, Jack thought it was fun using the cotton balls to make him all fluffy!

We've also been having so much fun with our postcrossing project!  Jack loves getting the postcards in the mail, and now he always yells, "the mailman is here!!" (well, it's really a mail-lady, but all I think he notices is the big white mail truck!)

Jack has received some really cute cards, many people send them with animals on it that he would enjoy.  We really appreciate that people pick out special things for him being only 3 years old!

He got this card in the mail the other day...it had a boar on it, knee-deep in mud with it's nose covered in mud!  Jack thought that was pretty funny!  As you can see, he really like that one!