" I King!"

Zachariah made this crown yesterday in Sunday School and he is so proud of it. Our friend (and Sunday School worker for this week) told me that she kept hearing Zachariah say "Um, I need help" throughout this whole craft. She would be halfway around the table trying to help another kid and he would pipe up with another, "Um, I need help". Hearing that cracked me up. :)




He giggles like a mad man every time he is wearing it and he runs to the nearest mirror to check himself out.




And then he shakes his head back and forth until the crown slips down around his neck, and promptly lets out a fake scream.

Don't ask. There are just some things about him I cant explain.


A big thanks goes out to Mrs. Sarah for helping my little goober make his wonderful crown! And another big thanks goes out to the three other women who rotate teaching my kid. The fact that he loves Sunday School so much makes me so happy. :)

My Husband Is The Greatest

I will have a post about our beach trip in the next day or two, but for now I wanted to show you how awesome my husband is. Check out what he made me for Mother's Day...
Yeah. He made it. Every bit of it. Photographed, painted, designed, and printed the canvas. And I love it. The picture just doesn't do it justice. You should see it up close and personal. Its just spectacular.

Anyway, I just wanted to show you how creative and fabulous my hubby is. :)
Hope all the mommy's out there had a great Mother's Day!

ABC, It's Easy As 123...

***DISCLAIMER***

I do NOT have a creative bone in my body. If I do anything that is considered creative, I probably taken/borrowed the idea from someone else. That being said, I got the following craft idea from this website. You should go check it out. This mom of two has some pretty darn good craft ideas! (thanks for the website, Jamie!)
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I finished making a custom alphabet book for Zachariah this weekend, and I was quite pleased with the results! (Save the chicken scratch handwriting.) I basically went around the house and took pictures of different things that Zachariah is familiar with. One for each letter of the alphabet. Then I slapped the pictures on some construction paper, added the appropriate letter to the page, and labeled the picture. It was mainly a "mommy project", but I think older toddlers/preschoolers would enjoy doing this with little to no help.

Anyway, below you will find pictures of our finished product! :)

I decided to make a cover page for our book. I let Zachariah color the front page and added a little foam letter action for the title. Put a cute picture of my kid up there, and I was good to go.
You get the idea. I am not going to bore you with all 26 pages. But Zachariah loved looking at his toys in his alphabet book. I need to video his squeals of delight. :)


And even though this isn't the best picture in the world, I just had to put it up. The picture I used for the letter "P" was a picture of all his stuffed penguins. As soon as he saw it he squealed and ran to his room to get one of them. It was so darn cute.
Let me know if you make your own! I would love to see other peoples variations of it. :)