Showing posts with label Belle. play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belle. play. Show all posts

Thursday, January 19, 2012

random stuff this week

always fun to play with self timer! especially since we need more pics of the 3 of us, cause one of us is always behind the camera. this was better off in black & white too.

belle & her "strawberry" birthmark on her forehead. it's rarely noticed. but when i do, i think of her as an infant. 

before she ate her cornbread she looked at me & said, "say cheese!!"
me: why?
b: this a camera!

she was supposedly on a pirate ship traveling across the ocean....
"AHOY!!!"
(funny how she's wearing her "Ahoy Matey!" pirate shirt in the cornbread pic!? haha)
i came home from bjs, using those boxes to carry in the stuff. & when i was about to throw it away, belle saw them and got excited. she's been preventing me to throw it out.
ever since, those boxes have turned into a pirate ship, a house, ice cream shop, etc,
she is one of those kids....that you give a box to, and she is thrilled!

almost tripped on this....her bunny & its lunch (belle really has quite the imagination).
it was right in the middle of the kitchen floor!

we ended up buying ice cream cake for my dad's birthday.
how cute are the candles?! it's so my dad. since he spends 90% of his time watching espn. 
knowing everything about anything with every sport!
happy birthday again to the loudest funniest man alive!

having a good week so far. 
& i finally ordered the 2011 photo album! (this was the post about 2010) 
it took me the whole weekend to finish, rushing to get the buy 1 get 1 free deal, which expired monday. & i'm glad the whole process is over! crossing my fingers that all turns out well.

have a good rest of the week!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

busy table

the living room table is always occupied.
it's belle's table. for eating, for drawing, painting, playing, etc etc!
it's overused & we need a new one cause the glass is broken on one side.
we're still using it regardless.

when belle plays with the iPad, she goes on youtube & finds the most random videos.
she found this one video on a tutorial on how to make an octopus using tissue rolls. it was even in spanish! she watched & showed it to me over and over again. until we one day tried it using whatever materials i had at home....
the one in the video is cuter.
cause the person used googly eyes. i don't have any.
googly eyes are much cooler!
and the video version had a closed head octopus. they put some type of cloth in the hole then blended it in with paint.
don't know what type of cloth...it was in spanish!
& we made 3 of them...

then homemade play doh...
surprise surprise...making an octopus!
favorite recipe that i found here:
1 cup flour
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
2 tablespoons cream of tar tar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

play doh is always a hit no matter what age you are.
one night while i was sewing, aris & belle were playing with it & it sounded like i had 2 kids:

A: stop it belle! you have your own!
(belle stealing aris's piece)
B: YAY!!
A: fine. take it but don't bother my other play doh anymore.
(both busy. then belle takes a look at aris')
A: stay on your side belle! this is my piece.
B: no way!

haha. crazy kids.

& this is also where belle does her daily ritual of puzzle making.
she does the same princess puzzle every. single. day.
sometimes even twice or three times a day.
sometimes she and my grandma race each with their own puzzles.

finished!! the time she feels most excited is when she completes it.
then she stares & admires it. sometimes even takes pictures of it with my phone.

this was funny.
my grandma actually finished first...while belle was putting her last 3 pieces.
then i noticed that my grandma misplaced 2 pieces.
so while she was fixing it, belle finished! haha
belle waiting for her to finish.
i spend a lot of my time with these 2 crazy ladies.
all they do is crack me up!