Yay B-Cookie! Way to be 8 months! Lets celebrate! (We’ll take any excuse to have a party.)

When you were a five year old boy I bet you wanted to pretend you were your little sister. (And I bet you looked this good too.)

I don’t know why I’m posting this, but I caught a two year old that will remain nameless trying to make chocolate milk in the toilet today. There are some things I never thought I would have to tell someone not to do.

I made this crayon roll the other day for Lukas. Here is a link to the tutorial. They are easy and quick to make, look super cute, and are a great way to use up scrap fabric. I bet they’d make a good kid gift too.

Am I posting this photo because B-Boy made a super cute playdough man? No. I’m posting it because for 10 minutes B-Boy and Crazy-L were getting along.

I’m struggling to do a french braid in K-Kat’s hair that doesn’t look like she did it herself. I tried this the other day and it looked good and stayed in really well too.

B-Cookie has two teeth on the bottom and will BITE you if you don’t watch out. She looks sweet, but seriously, she will BITE you.

Lukas and Ben were playing with me the other night with light painting. Lukas was trying to look like he could throw a ball of green lightning like a Super Hero.

I started by making a part in a circle around her head. The hair on the inside I twisted in a clip to keep out of the way. Next I parted the outer circle in the middle at the top and made two small ponies on either side of her face.

I continued making small ponies around the outside of her head, forming a puffy braid from the top of her head to the bottom on either side. I was left with two small pigtails hanging down on either side of the bottom of her head.

I combed all of the hair in the middle into a pony in the middle of the back of her head and included the hair from the end of the puffy braids. Then I turned the back pony into a pull through. This style was very easy, since I didn’t do any actual braiding. It took about 10 min.

Voila! A Princess!

1. Make a mold out of tinfoil. I made mine using a water bottle ice cube tray, but you can also mold one around your finger, etc. This would also be a good time to turn on the oven. I don’t think the temperature really matters, we used 350.

2. Peel all the paper off any small or broken crayons. You will probably want to use at least 3 or 4 different colors. (Notice the nice crayon on display, not peeled.)

3. Cut your crayons into little bits. I tried using a grater, but that was not the way to go. The pieces ended up being too fine and it was taking forever. Plus the fact it looked like I was coloring all over a cheese grater.

4. Mix the bits around to distribute the colors evenly and fill your aluminum foil mold. This is a good chance to talk to your kids about primary colors, mixing colors, etc.

5. Place the crayon filled mold on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven. Keep an eye on it. We ‘cooked’ ours for about 7 min. You want the pieces nice and melted and mixing, but not to the point they make brown soup.

6. Wait for it…

7. Let the new crayon cool. I put ours in the freezer as soon as it was solid enough to move to speed things up. Once it is cool you can take it out of the mold. I cut ours into two pieces so there would be no fighting. As you draw you will see the different colors. Enjoy!