New Craft Blog

So I finally got around to making a blog just for my crafts - primarily jewelry right now. To view it, log onto www.craftsbymandy.blogspot.com . It's still a work in progress and hopefully the pictures will show good enough tht you can see what this stuff really looks like! Pass it onto your friends to see too!!

PreSchool!

Dylan started pre-school last week! He did great! The pre-school is in a residential area, so they don't allow us to drop and pick-up at the school. Instead, we meet at a corner and the kids all hold onto a rope and walk down to the school. I thought he might be nervous with me not going with him, but I explained about the rope beforehand and when we got there, his friend Seth was there, and he grabbed on to the rope and left. Didn't even say goodbye to me ! When I picked him up I asked him if he had fun and if he did crafts and played games, etc. and his answer was, "No, I just hit, it's my new favorite thing." I asked his teacher today and she said he hasn't been hitting. So he's just making up stories I guess. They said he's been doing really good, just not sitting still very good, but that is normal for this early in the year. He comes home each time with a writing sheet where he has practiced writing the letter of the week, his name and then colored a picture. He usually has a craft they've made too. They are learning letters, numbers colors and words like "a, the, and" etc. etc.

Crafty

Here are pictures of a crosstitch I made for Eddy (my friend Cheri helped me frame it today). In case you can't see, it's just a picture of a man, boy and dog going out to fish. And the other picture is the latest addition to my living room- I just put vinyl letters onto the frames and then picked out paper to put in the background. I plan to change it out for holidays. I'm also thinking of starting my own craft blog so I can show off the jewelry I've been making and possibly sell some. We'll see!

Lemonade

We had a yard sale last weekend at my sister's house. I set up a little lemonade stand for Dylan. He was a great little salesman - everyone that came to the yard sale, he would run up to and yell, "Hey! I got remonade!" (he can't say the "l" sound yet). So needless to say he drummed up quite a bit of business! I would tell him to wait and see if they asked for lemonade and he would say, "but mom, do they have moneys or not?".

Biker Boy

My new haircut

So I'm trying to grow my hair back out and went in for a trim and came back with the shortest cut yet. But she said it will grow out nicely from here. I dont really like it all that much, but it's funny -I've gotten more compliments on my hair than any other time. It's easy to do so we'll see what happens. what does everyone else think? Keep it shorter or let it grow to my shoulders?

Playing with Auntie Brooke

Dylan's Aunt Brooke came over and played in the swimming pool and the slip n' slide. They had fun together! The big pool with the zebra was Dylan's birthday present from her.

Dylan is three!

On Sunday, we had a little party for Dylan! He got lots of great presents. Then we had cupcakes and I think he really liked it when we all sang to him, he just sat there and smiled.


We got him a new bike that's a little too big so here are some pics of the boys riding the bikes. (I think the big boys had more fun than the little ones).




Aunt Alyssa got Dylan a cowboy outfit and we got him the stick horse.


Aunt Alyssa (new haircut) and me


Family

Cousins

Eddy's brother, Adam, and his family came to visit for the weekend. Dylan had a blast with his 2 cousins, Burkley (6) and Breckin (2). They actually got along really well! We went to the zoo and a fun park where the kids and dads rode on the Octopus ride. Then we came home and played in the sprinklers. Bedtime was interesting - trying to keep them in bed and get them to go to sleep. Here's some pics of the 2 boys trying to play guitar hero!