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!

saving money, and dancing like crazy!

On Wednesday, Jack had his toddler program at the library. They had a guest speaker, a woman who worked for Jewett City Savings Bank, who read a story to the kids about money, then gave all of the kids little ceramic piggy banks! Even the craft was a little piggy!!

This picture was Jack getting his piggy bank from Miss Anne, one of the librarians...he knew he was getting a bank, so he brought along some change and immediately put it in his bank! What a good little saver! (He must definitely get that from Daddy!)

Jack and Luke got to share a little table, because the big tables had too many people! Here they are making their piggy craft complete with a cute little pipe cleaner tail!!

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Thursday we had a playdate at McDonalds with Jacks playgroup in the morning, did a little shopping afterwards then relaxed for the rest of the day! (Well, mostly relaxed....Jack decided he needed to listen to Christmas music and dance around the house!)

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Check out the little video I shot with my phone of Jack dancing!

After dancing around all afternoon, Jack decided he would kick back and read a Clifford Easter Book!! He likes to make up the story by looking at the pictures...(he also makes some really funny faces while reading!!)

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Another beautiful day!

Today Jack woke up complaining of a stomachache and coughing.  He never mentioned the stomach part again for the rest of the day, but he was coughing on and off.  We didn't make it to our playdate this morning, I just wanted to make sure that Jack wasn't going to be sick.  After a little while of relaxing at home, we decided to head out for some fresh air. 

We met up with Kathy and Riley again at Hammonasset Beach for a walk and a little geocaching!  We found one, then for some reason, my phone was getting no network coverage, so I wasn't able to find any more there! 

Jack and I both spotted this one at the same time pretty quickly!  Jack found a couple of 'finger skateboards' that he took, and we put in a deck of game cards for the next person to find!

We walked around a little bit more, then headed to Cold Stone for some ice cream!  We then headed to a candy store over at the outlet mall across the street.  Auntie Scoot told Jack that he could choose anything in the store and she'd buy it for him....of all things, he chose a tube of mini M&M's!  Then he spotted the gummy candy bins and decided that 'Daddy' needed to have some of those!!  (Something tells me he was thinking more for himself!)  He chose some octopus gummies, army guys, frogs, worms, and eggs....hmmm, just what Daddy likes!  :)
As we were walking around the outlet mall, we kept running into those 50 cent 'rides' outside of the stores...Auntie Scoot really spoiled Jack today, she decided that he needed to ride just about every one we came across!!  (Almost like going to an amusement park she said!)
He loved every minute of it...of course, I am going to have to convince him that we can't do that EVERY time we go someplace!

Jack and I headed back home, but made a quick stop at another geocache in Old Saybrook!  This one was rated as an easy one, so I figured we could grab it and get home to see Daddy!

It was at a very beautiful park that was built on a landfill....unfortunately, it smelled pretty bad....I can't imagine what it would be like in the summer heat! 

It really was a nice spot with benches that overlook the marsh and water....maybe we just caught it on a bad day, who knows!

It was a great time of day to be there, the sun was just setting!

This was the first cache that Jack actually found 100% on his own!  We sometimes will lead Jack into the right area if we spot it first, but let him think he is finding it....but this time, I was reading a plaque at the park and all of a sudden Jack yells "Momma!!!!  I found the hidden box!!!!!!'

He was so excited!!  We popped it open and he found a Thomas the Train luggage tag!  He took that and we left a travel game for the next people to find!

It was a great day!!

(and thanks again to Auntie Scoot and Riley for the spoiling today!)

Finally....beautiful weather!!

We have had some gorgeous weather these past few days!

Yesterday, Daddy and I took Jack geocaching!  We hit a couple of spots on our way down to Clinton for a pizza birthday party for Uncle Rhett!

This picture was taken in Preston.  The cache was hidden under a rock in a wooded area besides the cemetery in town.  This was the first of three that we found for the day!

Jack loves finding caches...in this one, he chose to take the mini flashlight...he already has one at home, but he said it was okay because the one he has at home is blue, and this one was green!  LOL!

We had a great time at the pizza party, ate lots of pizza, then had chocolate raspberry cake and rootbeer floats at Grandmas house!






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Today, we had a field trip with Jacks playdate group!  We went to the Gales Ferry Fire Department to see the fire trucks!  This was our second time there, but Jack loves the fire trucks!!!
Here are a few pictures from our field trip! 

Jack got to sit in a couple of fire trucks, and even got to use the fire extinguisher to squirt water all over the parking lot! 

As you can see by the huge smile on his face, this was a lot of fun!!

When we got home, we ate lunch outside and Auntie Mel and Luke came over to play on the playscape!  The boys have lots of fun together, I'm so happy they live right next door so the kids can all grow up together!!

They really are 'bestest buddies!'

Hammonasset Beach and postcards!!

Today Jack and I met my sister Kathy and my niece at Hammonasset Beach in Madison!  I haven't been there in so long!  My husband and I used to go there when we lived down on the shoreline.  We took a whole bunch of pictures, found a geocache, then went to Friendly's for ice cream!

Jack loves the beach!!

Another great thing that happened today?  We got tons of postcards!! 

Check out our other blog for some great pictures of all of our postcards:

http://www.jacksmom726-postcrossing.blogspot.com/

An airplane, shamrocks and a 'grass head guy'!

Last night when I got home from work, I found a nice little surprise on the table...Jack and Daddy must have done a little craft project while I was working!  I quickly hung this airplane up in the doorway for everyone to see!

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This morning, Jack and I decided to start our St. Patricks Day projects....first up?  Potato stamp shamrocks!

I remember doing this as a kid, you make stamps out of a half of a potato!  We made one shamrock and a pot for all of our 'gold'!   After Jack stamped some pictures on the paper, he glued on some 'gold coins' and colored a rainbow!!  I think it came out cute, and he thought it was pretty funny we used a potato for this craft!  :)

 

(Jack also got some more practice writing his name!)

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One last project before naptime.....I picked up a cute little 'guy' that grows grass for hair, so Jack and I let it soak in water for a few minutes before placing him into his plastic 'greenhouse'.  Jack is pretty excited at the thought of giving him a 'haircut' in a week or two!!