Happy St. Patrick's Day

I hope everyone enjoyed a super lucky and green St. Patrick's Day. We had corn beef and cabbage last night with my Mum...today was more about just wearing green. Although, we did have Irish Soda Bread for breakfast and managed a mini photo shoot before my doctor appointment. 

32 weeks! Just 8 short weeks to go!

Project Life: Weeks 14 and 15

These next couple weeks seem more simplified than previous spreads. Kinda loving them and it's more of what I've been doing with more current spreads too.

Week 14

Didn't take a detail shot, but the insert is our Color Run numbers. 

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This week we took walks filled with wishes, Gandalf took a trip to the vet because he was feeling poorly, we had long talks about the beach and taking medicine and we baked some cookies. I've realized that I seem to have a big collection of the sky from my walks/runs. I've been playing around with the idea of doing something with them, not sure what though. 

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We did The Color Run for the second year in a row. It was probably twice as crowded, which made it a little less fun, but we still had a blast AND we got to stay longer this year because no one was sick. Yay!

Week 15

I didn't take pictures of them but you can see the insert I included with the boys' hand-prints from class. I really need to do some updated ones with them soon. Love including their little hands in this project. 

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The This Week card is from Studio Calico I believe. It wouldn't stay in the pocket so I added some washi to secure it. We had a pretty relaxed week this week. I wasn't feeling 100% so Munch made me "chicken soup" in his McDonald's kitchen and Nox refused to take a nap and ended up falling asleep on the couch.

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More easy days. Munch found a recipe in his Highlights magazine and we managed to find the ingredients to a similar recipe I had and whipped up Banana Berry Muffins. Munch loved helping me bake....but refused to try even a tiny bite. I love watching the boys look out my bedroom window in the morning. The soft light that enters the room makes me so happy. I won a couple goodies from Jonathan over at Napkin Art Studios. 

Finished off this week with ice cream covered faces. 

Today I am linking up with The Mom Creative:

AND with Avinash and Nadini

Currently: Brother Edition 3.3.2014

Watching: King Tut: Unwrapped on Netflix. Over and over again. Munch is definitely working on a Ancient Egypt obsession.

Reading: Bob Books. Munch is back to reading and he's doing so SO incredibly well. I am so proud of him. He's been trying to move through them quicker than he should, but he's awesome at practicing when I'm not sitting with him and he's even been patiently trying to teach Nox to sound out words. Nox is totally just memorizing what each page says, but it's great to see him show an interest in reading.

Mama Bear Rant: If my child asks to read to you, please try to be supportive and show interest. Please do NOT ignore him and refuse to sit with him. Also, if you do sit with him, do NOT come up to me afterwards and tell me how he's "just memorizing stuff", like you are completely unimpressed with him. He can hear you and I'm his teacher so it really makes me think that you feel I'm incompetent. We've been working really hard and he isn't memorizing the books, he KNOWS the words...I test him. Seriously, if you do these things it makes me want to ban you from my house. Keeping kids interested in learning isn't always easy. Acting like their hard work isn't a big deal or that they are just faking learning is an awesome way to discourage them. Sorry, rant over, this Mama Bear is just sensitive when it comes to her cubs (made doubly true due to pregnancy). I tried to just get over it, but it was eating away at me every time Munch picked up a book, so a rant was necessary.

Listening: Yesterday we listened to thunder rumbling as ice rained down on our deck and roof.

View from my husband's office building. It's hard to believe it was 81 the day before this picture was taken. 

Making: Kings Cake in cooking class. John took them and their teacher sent back some for me. I love how proud they are of their cooking and how they love to help in the kitchen, even if they don't always eat what they help make.

Feeling: Defiant. I'm trying to convince myself that it's because Nox insists on waking up early, but part of me is saying that it may be more of a phase. He's been trying to push every button and boundary in the book. I think the red hair makes it worse.

Planning: On testing the DNA of zombies, monsters and mummies. The "detectives" (aka Archaeologists) on the King Tut documentary did it, so it must be important.

Loving: Looking at our Project Life albums. John mentions that they are for me...but they really aren't.