mother's day mad libs and strawberry shortcake

Another great Mother's Day.  I wouldn't say relaxing.  I wouldn't say stress free.  I wouldn't say my hair looked pretty or my house was clean.  But I love my family.  I love my kids so much.  I got to celebrate with all my favorite moms.  The kids got to play with cousins and run around outside.  It was good.  I am happy.  I feel lucky.

I made some last minute little Mother's Day Mad Libs.  I thought it would be so funny to do with Max, but he needs to be a little older.  He wanted to use bad words or words that didn't make sense.  He's also 3 and doesn't know a noun from an adjective.  We will work on it.  I used some that he said on impulse and others I would give him 2 or 3 choices.  But he did sign his own name on all of them!

We celebrated with a potluck brunch and I recently saw these Strawberry Shortcake Skewers on Pinterest, I thought they looked easy and yummy.  Max had fun cutting out the teeny biscuits with me.  And the homemade whip cream has marshmallow fluff in it and I wish I had captured his face when I let him lick that spoon!  I did end up making the skewers with just biscuits and strawberries and added the whip cream as a dip.  Still delish.  John says I could make teeny sausage and egg biscuits for the kids.  That would be so cute!

I love her big top tooth!

Happy Mother's Day!

puppet theater

One of the first things I ever made and posted on this blog was a puppet theater curtain.  I made it for my nephew, but I never ended up making one for Max.  We did make a little duck tape house a while back and I recently got it out for the kids to play in.  Max and Lola sit in the house and then we "call" each other on the phone.  Lola puts her hand to her ear.  I love that she is starting to play with us!

Both kids have been pulling all the tape off though.  So we decided to make it into a puppet theater.  I didn't really try very hard to make this look cool.  We just needed something to occupy our time during all these rainy indoor days.

Max's pirate story.  I wish I could re-tell a really cute story, but here is where the pirate punches the bird...

Then Teeny comes in to play.

That's not how a puppet theater works Lola...

Max really loves for us to tell him stories.  "Talk about our day", "Talk about Wolves game", etc.  He recently started a little preschool program and there are three Max's including him.  So John tells him the story of the three little Max's.  I hear him re-telling it during the day.  They are funny stories though, and don't make much sense.  "Then the biggest Max says, hey who took my cheese?"