Mommy Makeover Challenge: Day 2

I didn't fail today!  It was really close for a while there, but I actually made myself look presentable.
Before getting dressed, we hung out in pajamas for a while and then got dressed for a three mile run.  After our run, we met up with friends and went on a four mile walk.  All this time, I'm in workout clothes with no makeup and very messy hair.  Meh.  Well after a quick lunch at the park and putting Callum down for a nap, I was thiiiiiis close to throwing on the yoga pants but I stopped myself and I'm glad I did.  Even if we don't go anywhere after naptime, I feel nice and presentable.  So far, we just did preschool work and now I'm blogging, but we might venture out for a walk (yes, another one.  Our nice days are very very limited now.) or a wal-mart trip.  Maybe another park outing.  Anyway, on to the challenge!
And don't forget to head over to gorgeous Jayne's blog for the challenge linkup!

Day of the challenge: 2

Outfit: Jeans, turquoise tank and black shirt from Target, my necklace that has been broken for ages and my friend Kim fixed for me (yay!!!), cz earrings, makeup and my first ever successful french braid!!!  I think my hair is the most adorable today it's been in eons.

How long did it take you to get ready: about 30 minutes.

What you did do differently than normal: french braid, yo!  Actually getting dressed and presentable after a morning of working out/blahness.

Did you go anywhere outside the home/where: Well, not looking like this...I should really force myself to go somewhere just so I can feel even more awesome.

Did you feel any differently?: Yes.  I seriously feel amazing that I made a french braid in my own hair and it looks good!  lol

Preschool: Letter C

Everett was excited to learn about "C for Callum" last week.  We're already moving right along with D, but I figured I should probably do last week's update.

Last week, we pulled out our Melissa & Doug stamps and used upper and lower case A, B, and C to decorate a nice green piece of paper.

Even though Everett really has his colors figured out now, we did some color by number just for fun.

We also pulled out this Sesame Street dry erase workbook on numbers.  I was quite impressed to see Everett copy and write his own "2."  Yay dry erase crayons!

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Mommy Makeover Challenge : Day 1

One of my awesome internet friends (thenaptownorganizer.blogspot.com) has created a bloggy challenge this week for mamas to get themselves dressed up for the day and see how it affects them.  I love the idea since I'm typically a t-shirt, jeans, and ponytail type of mama.

I am horrible at taking pictures of myself and totally forgot until I'd left the house today, so you get a bad picture of me taking in the reflection of my minivan with my house in the background.

Day of the challenge: 1

Outfit: Jeans, hot pink long sleeved t with a short sleeved sweater, black earrings

How long did it take you to get ready: about 30 minutes.

What you did do differently than normal: curled and sprayed the hair, put on makeup and got dressed before breakfast.

Did you go anywhere outside the home/where: Yes, we were at storytime at the library at 10, the park at 11:30, nap at 1:30 at home, then to the bakery around 5.

Did you feel any differently?: Yes!  Because I was dressed before breakfast, I didn't sit around and lounge as much.  I folded the laundry before we went to the library (mostly because I couldn't find any jeans....) and we were to the library in time to pick out books before storytime.  

Yay!

Houghton Falls Hike

On Monday, I decided I really wanted to get the boys out into the woods to just explore and be in nature.  After a couple times getting lost and one unsatisfying venture, we headed to a trail we'd been to before and knew was nice.  The boys had a great time.  They were picking up leaves and sticks, pointing out rocks and water, posing for pictures, and chatting away.  It was so nice to get out and just walk through the woods with my boys.

The cuteness.  It kills me.

We stopped at ate lunch while gazing at Lake Superior.

We had so much fun, in fact, that we decided to plan an outing for our local mom & kids outdoor group next Friday.  Even if no one else shows up, I know my boys and I will have a great time!

Preschool: Letter B

I'm never sure how the week is going to go when we start school and I'm met with this face:

Kidding.  He was just being serious at the moment.  Sometimes, he does run away yelling, "no schooooool!" but there are also times he asks to do school so I figure we're doing ok for 3 years old.  We haven't been doing school every week day but there are also weekend days that we do a bit of review on the letter we worked on.  

One of the activities we did this week was creating our letter B.  This week we did some painting with various sized balls and tempera paints.  Ev thought this was a great idea.

The finished product.

 Another activity was something I'd been saving up.  I picked this up at the kids day of the farmer's market and we pulled it out last week.  I was super impressed that Everett got almost all the food groups correct on his first answer.

And of course, we did some in the workbook.

Overall, Everett does a good job at remembering the sound that the letter makes but he has trouble remembering the name of the letter.  I guess it's better that way than the opposite.  :)