Day 25: Sensory Bin

Seth's first sensory bin, filled with rice, noodles and stars and squares! This is one of my favorite sensory bin I've seen; so I decided to make it.

First remove all the noodles!

Loved the feeling of rice between the toes :)

Day 24: The 4th of July!!!

Seth saw his first parade!  No, pictures of him... Jesse kind of took off with him so It was impossible to get some pictures.  This was actually my first parade I saw in town.  I'm not quite sure what I actually would have taken a picture of if I did have my camera ready...  And they actually ran the parade through twice so I had two missed opportunities!
Anyways another first Seth had that day was he won the cutest baby picture contest for his age group! The drug store in town puts this contest on every 4th of July; my mom was the one that entered him in it.  The pictures are then voted on by visiting tourist.

This is the picture we used!

Day 23: water balloon!

Who wouldn't want to see a water balloon the size of a watermelon get pushed down the steps?!?! 

 Seth trying to move the water balloon

 Rolling the balloon down the steps

Day 20,21 and 22!

Day 20 Seth climbed a whole flight of steps by himself!  That took the load off of me!


Day 20: kitty kitty

Our good friend, needed to find a home for her kitten, so we offered to take her.  Which will be nice because we have a LOT of mice in the shop and woodpile down stairs.
So here is Seth and his first kitty!

Kitty and Seth playing together

Kitty is still nameless at this time. I call her kitty kitty and Seth grunts and points at her... ummmm someday she'll have a name!



Day 22: Shaving cream painting.

After looking through the Twenty Things to do with shaving cream list (surprised shaving wasn't on it!). (here) I decided on colored shaving cream, bathtub and bath toys... a combination you can't beat:)

 He loved rubbing the shaving cream on his belly! 

Day 19: Flowers

Exploring all the different flowers! We went on a walk today; Seth wanted to stop and smell the flowers.

My favorite flowers!

Loved walking through the tall grass

Seth's favorite flower

Close up of moss on a tree

 

Day 18: Baked Cotton balls

I wasn't going to do this one... but I decided to go ahead this morning and whip up (these) baked cotton balls before leaving for my weekly prayer meeting.  

• 1 cup flour
• 1cup water
•  food color (if you want colorful cotton balls!)
• And of course cotton balls!  I really wish I had the jumbo size cotton balls when I did this.  I started putting five cotton balls together just to make bigger balls.

What they look like when you crack one open. 

Combine all ingredients and mix.  Make separate colors if you want.  Dunk balls in mixture set on a greased cookie sheet.
bake for 45 mins. at 300 degrees.

My mom watched Seth for me this morning so I brought these over to her house for him to play with.  We tried to get him to break them open to pull out the fuzz. He was happy putting them in one container then another. My mom said that he played with these forever.  When I got back to her house three hours later he was still playing with them... I might make another batch up!

• These would really be better if you made them with jumbo size cotton balls instead of regular size. 

Day 17: Magazines

This evening I was going through a pile of People magazines and ripping out the book suggestions.  When I was done with a magazines I gave them to Seth, who carried the magazines around ripping pages from them.  This activity entertained him for an hour;  it probably would have entertained him longer, but it was already thirty minutes passed his bed time.  More fun tomorrow!

Note to self: Let the kid rip up more magazines!