Birthday Arts and Crafts

I saw this balloon wreath on a blog a couple weeks ago and since Colin and Lily's birthdays are right around the corner I thought it would be really cute.  One straw wreath, 300 balloons and floral pins later we have our own balloon wreath for the front door.

Please excuse the dirty front door but despite that I love the wreath and think it turned out really cute.

Arts & Crafts

Lily has pretty much stopped napping and now that we are potty training I have been letting her skip "quiet time" in her room so she is only in a diaper at night.  So, I have been trying to come up with some new things for us to do.  This week I picked up a few bags of dried beans at the grocery store and handed them over to her with some macaroni, glue, and construction paper.  She loved it!

It was just a little bottle of glue but she used the whole thing and has been asking for glue every day since.  I had to go to Target and pick up some more for her.  We have also done some finger painting and think we will combine the paint with some pasta noodles and the glue next week and see what we can come up with.