Today was a super boring day filled with errands. It also happened to be another gorgeous day outside and I felt really bad that I didn’t have the time to take Paige to the park. I DID manage to get a photo of Paige wearing the new hat I finished for her. I love it. I think it looks super cute.
The pattern was super easy. I got it from the Learn to Crochet blog. It’s called “Little Darling Shell Cap”.
I love this photo of Paige.
Close up of the hat
What a gorgeous day! It got up to 15°C/59°F today which made it a perfect day to go to the park. We spent the morning doing some crafts. We started off with making a few more tissue paper shamrocks because Paige had so much fun with it the first time. Then we had some St. Patrick’s Day sticker fun. Paige absolutely loves stickers. We finished the morning off with some egg capsule things. Let me say, they are crap. Maybe I got a bad batch. We’ve never done them before so I don’t know if the results were normal or not but about half of them would only open in boiling water. The other half did open in warm water but it took a long time for it to happen. A 2-year old doesn’t have enough patience for that so I think any future capsule type activities will happen when Paige is a little older.
After nap, we headed over to the park and stayed for 2 hours. I had no idea we had been gone so long. We have a fantastic park across the street from us with a community centre attached. Paige loves the swings and the slide and kept bouncing back and forth between the two. (Sorry for the picture overload but she was having too much fun and giving me great smiles)
Paige was fascinated with her shadow
Swings are her favourite
She kept telling me it was tickling her tummy
On the big equipment
She loves to go back and forth through this tub
"I'm gonna get you, Mommy" was said a LOT
Sticking her tongue out for the camera
Slides are fun
She stopped just before the end and avoided the big puddle
I’m sorry I haven’t updated but we’ve been extremely busy. I finished making Paige a new peasant blouse but this time I made a few changes to the pattern. I adjusted the hem from a curved hem into a straight one. I also extended the sleeves. The pattern only had short sleeves and I wanted long sleeves so I made some adjustments to the pattern to lengthen them. Making the sleeves was definitely interesting but they turned out great. I love the peasant blouse pattern and can envision all the variations that can be done to it with little effort but will make it look like completely different shirts.
Today was a very busy day as it was filled with errands. In between it all, we still managed to get a little St. Patrick’s Day activity done. Paige had a lot of fun with this one. Since I still have some balled tissue paper left over, we’ll likely make some more tomorrow to give to the family.
This printable was from abcteach and was pretty simple. I hunted down a large enough picture of a shamrock, cut up two different coloured tissue paper (1 sheet each colour) and crumpled each of the pieces into balls. I smeared glue all over the shamrock and let Paige put the tissue paper on. Easy peasy!
The hat was purchased at the dollar store today during one of our errands. Paige insisted that she had to have it and wouldn’t take it off.
We’ve been fairly lax on the activities due to us being sick but I’m determined to get back into it. Today we did three different matching activities.
Pasta Matching: I put three different kinds of pasta into a bowl and gave Paige three smaller bowls to separate them by type. She did a great job and kept asking for more.
Shape Matching: I printed a leprechaun hat with some shapes from first school.ws but unfortunately, my printer is out of yellow ink so the green hat turned out blue and the yellow star ended up white. I sat Paige at the table and she knew right away what she needed to do. She didn’t need Mommy telling her how to do it.
It was a fun day filled with matching activities (we also played with her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Memory game) and lots of fun with her Little People (a recent rediscovery). Is it bedtime yet? Mommy is exhausted!
