Chef Logan

Logan absolutely LOVES to help with whatever I am doing.  So I decided to let him help me with breakfast!  Train them EARLY, right?! Here are a few pictures I snapped...

Making biscuits...

I thought this was cute.. He was really into his cartoon while walking the biscuits to the oven.

"Mom, stop snapping pictures and open the oven!"

He was AMAZED with the biscuits rising...

Carefully spreading jam on his biscuit!  I LOVE him!!!!! 

Fall Craft Plates

I saw this at Michaels and absolutely LOVED it!  It's a cheap and decorative way to celebrate Fall in your home.

Materials:

• rhinestone stickers
• letter stickers
• plate

-These were all purchased at Michaels using a 40% or 50% coupon for each of course! :)

Peel and stick...quick, easy, and cheap Fall craft! :)

The Second plate....

Materials:

• plate
• a piece of scrap booking paper
• wooden letter
• pencil
• glue
• scissors
• glitter
• smaller plate that fits the inner circle of big plate

Outline the small plate onto the paper...

Cut the outlined circle...

Glue the circle to the plate....

Put glue on wooden letter...

Smear with finger so that the entire top part of the letter has glue on it...

Sprinkle glitter.....

Glue wooden letter to the plate. I had left over rhinestones from the first plate, so I added it to plate.

Diaper Wreath

So today I decided to set aside all my sewing/embroidery and start on a few craft projects.  The first craft is a diaper wreath that I have been putting off getting together.  It's for a sweet friend that will be having a precious girl named, Rylee.  She's due in early October so I told myself that I needed to,"get to stepping". :)  So here we go...

This is what I used:

• a wooden letter (I went ahead and painted it)
• acrylic paint
• ribbon
• glue gun
• scissors
• rubber bands
• a pack of newborn diapers

   

Start by rolling your diapers from one end to the other...wrap with rubber band!

Take your ribbon and wrap around the diaper as tight as you can.  Cut ribbon, but DO NOT glue yet!

Now take that piece of cut ribbon and measure enough and cut however many strips needed for each rolled diaper.  It took me 21 diapers for the one I made...but they were also size 3 diapers so that would probably make a difference.

Now wrap each rolled diaper with a strip of ribbon.  Put a strip of hot glue on the ribbon and secure tight.  Make sure to seal ribbon at the opening part of the diaper because you will attach the "ugly" side to the wreath.

This is what it should look like.

Next, put two strips of hot glue side by side to the back part of each rolled diaper and place on the wreath.  Hold it down for 10 seconds each to make sure the glue sticks to the foam wreath.  Squeeze the diapers next to each other as you glue each one on so that there's not a gap in between each diaper.

After all diapers are glued on!

Last, hot glue your trinkets to the ribbon part on the wreath.  The idea is to be able to use the diapers later . I will probably add a "It's a Girl" or "Welcome" ribbon below the "R".  This is somewhat time consuming, but it's such a personal, cute, and unique baby gift! :)

First Post...

I have been wanting to start a family blog for soooo long now and FINALLY decided to tonight.  Not only, is it a great way to capture special moments and share it with friends and family, but also something to share with Logan when he gets older.  I think last night drew the final straw telling myself I just need to DO IT after I read a friend's sweet blog.  So here I am.... 
  Logan is now two and is growing up way too fast ( I still can't believe it took me this long  to blog).  He surprises us day by day as he learns something new. We make a BIG deal and praise him with smooches, clapping, bear hugs, high fives, fist pound, and shouting "yay", and so on. He loves it when we praise him and will join us in praising himself as well.
  Chad and I are teaching Logan both English and Vietnamese.  Sometimes I wonder if he gets a little confused learning both languages.  We try to speak more Vietnamese with him at home because from our experience growing up, he will pick up the English language fine once he starts school.  BUT, Chad and I obviously speak more English than we do Vietnamese so we continuously remind each other to speak more Vietnamese at home.  As of now, I would say Logan understands more Vietnamese, but speaks more English  (which that is normal for bilingual kids I believe).  However, some of the words that he has mastered in Vietnamese are: eyes, nose, mouth, hands, diaper, shirt, mom, dad, and can count to 3 (omitting one...lol).   In English, he can say...mom, dad, Checker, Chloe, Jace (his buddy), go, no, please, thank you, welcome, excuse me, night night, dog, no more, all gone, car, truck, juice, chicken, two, three, poo, boo (his security blanky), gentle, ...those are the ones that stick out for now.  And LAST NIGHT, he totally surprised me when he crept in my sewing room and said, "Mama, whatcha doing?".  That was another part of the reason I made myself start this blog.  I'm just letting all these special moments pass me by and not even documenting my baby's childhood.  I have tons of pictures to share with him when he gets older, but it would be nice to have something for him to go back and read and one day share with his family.   And of course, I will look back and bawl  my eyes out each time I read the blogs... reminiscing the past.  Anyway, all in all, in the end...it's better late than never, right?!   I'm proud of myself for finally starting to blog.  Now, let's see how often I will keep up with this blogging...lol. 


Here are a few pictures of Logan at the beginning of age 2: