Two quick and random things...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 05:51AM First, this just cracked me up. Micah was recently granted the great honor of being allowed to watch movies on his Uncle Zach's PSP (is that what those are called? those portable game things that apparently can also play movies). Uncle Zach set it up for him to watch "Finding Nemo" on it while his big brothers were doing something else. The next day, Micah promptly followed Uncle Zach back to the basement and requested the same treatment. He came waltzing back upstairs (proud as could be) carrying the coveted PSP (we don't own any forms of video games personally) and again watching Nemo. The other two immediately crowded round and ended up watching the show like this:
Never mind that we own the "Finding Nemo" dvd and they could easily watch it on the television (which was right behind them from where this picture is taken)...or that they'd just watched this on the tv the night before because of Micah mentioning it...or that previous to that they'd been adamant that they didn't like Nemo. Guess the novelty of a new toy will always win out. ;)
Second, I'm told it's March already (wow!). So, does anyone have any good ideas for Easter baskets for three boys? Last year I went with a pirate theme and it was adorable (had three little pirates swashbuckling around and yelling "Argh!" at me). I've also done sand toy themes in the past. Any other ideas? I'd actually kind of like to avoid toys this year, as we have more than enough. Hmmm...methinks I might have an idea or two now that I think about it. But, I'd still love to hear yours!! (Please share!)
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how about:
new crayons, markers, pompoms, watercolor paints
or
new pjs.
or
a garden shovel & a bug tent or ant farm
or
outdoor chalk, bubbles, jumprope, jacks, hoolahoop
or
new bathtoys with a container of bubble bath or those crayola bath tints that change the water color.
Sometimes the Easter Bunny leave bubbles, chalk, sidewalk paints, seed packets (or a barette or two). Oh, there has to be chocolate and jelly beans, but not too much of anything - they know what the season is about and really, they receive enough candy at the local egg hunts anyway. We also have an egg tree that goes up right about now (well, as soon as we find an appropriatly forked branch lying around outside). We hollow out our own eggs, dye them, hang with ribbon. There is always at least one that breaks every year, sometimes more if the cats are bad, so we have fun replacing them. But sometimes they find a new papier mache decorated egg to hang in their baskets as well.
The Easter bunny is bringing Jane and Kate a new shirt (maybe some short to go w/ it and some new butterfly sunglasses (that Jane told me were her FAVORITE and HAD to have them). Jane is also getting a cd case to keep her ever growing collection of cds in and a new cd. Kate will get some crocs since she doesn't have any spring/summer shoes. Not sure if that helped at all, but thought I'd share. :)
Love your new look Amanda!!!