While in New Mexico we visited with friends and met many wonderful animals.
We enjoyed riding horses,
petting dogs, and
gathering eggs and naming chickens.
This chicken’s now called Ka-lot thanks to our daughter.
Thank you to our New Mexico friends and family for inviting us into your homes and helping us create these amazing, formative experiences that we shall always treasure.
We’ve just returned from a week-long family trip to New Mexico, so we’re busy recovering from our long travel day yesterday and doing things like stocking the refrigerator today and marveling over how much our garden grew in such a short period of time. Is it really May already?!
We’ll see you back here tomorrow to tell you about our trip.
Inspired by Geninne’s folksy embroidered felt pouch for her iPod Touch, I decided to make a cover for our iPod using some of the felt from our stash.
Of course, my little helper had to sew one too. I made a blue one, while she opted for a pink one. (No huge shocker there!)
In the end, the use for her cover morphed. She decided that she needed a case for her calculator.
And by calculator I mean her (pretend) cell phone and camera. The buttons and screen actually works, so it’s almost like the real thing. At least it is to her.
A trip down memory lane…
April 2008:
Tummy time at home (three months old!)
At the park with daddy
April 2009:
Packing up to move to the country
April 2010:
Children’s Museum in San Diego
Playing at the beach in San Diego
April 2011:
Coloring in her Clifford coloring book (thrift store score!)
Crazy flyaway hair
Playing her guitar as if it’s a cello with her violin bow
There’s never a dull moment in our house.
We decided that we needed some handmade, toddler art envelopes to pair with our play postage stamp stickers.
So our toddler drew beautiful art made specifically for this project, i.e. she drew with marker on construction paper. It’s brilliant, I tell you.
To make our envelopes, we first deconstructed an existing envelope (by fully unfolding it), then traced its outline on the toddler artwork.
We cut out the envelope,
then folded and adhered the new envelope together. (You could easily use double-sided tape or glue for a more seamless envelope; I had an impatient toddler working on this project with me, so we relied on plain tape. SHOCKER!)
We then wrote letters to several of our daughter’s friends to place in the envelopes.
After assembling and stuffing the envelopes, we placed one of our play postage stamp stickers on the front of the envelope.
Love these toddler letters, ready and waiting for Postmaster Leyba, age three, to pick up and deliver to her friends!
