Gift for Bean's Preschool Teacher

Bean wanted to give a present to her teacher she had this year for preschool. I wanted to do something practical and useful. I had seen photos of this project done by people on a website I frequent so I thought I would give it a try. This is an Altered Clipboard. Decorated by scrapbook paper, glued on by mod-pog (the stuff that glues puzzles together.)
Front

Back
I let Bean pick the paper for the back, she had fun helping me and couldn't wait to take it to her teacher. Mrs. Fargen really liked it.

I learned something new to do with my scrapbooking stuff, there are somethings I know that need to be changed when I do it again.

The Wonders of Children and Sleeping

I think every child falls asleep in weird positions at one point in the life or another. How kids can sleep strapped into a child seat with their heads hung to their chest always baffles me. We all know if we were to trade places with them how our bodies would feel if we fell asleep like that.

Up until Bubba joined our family I was always envious of those parents that were able to carry their infant or toddler into the house and put them to bed with out waking them up. Bean and Buddy were notorious for waking up the minute the car stopped for an extended period of time. I am not sure what would wake them up but it never failed. The worst part of the whole equation was especially when we were coming home from a distance and they would fall asleep, when we got home they would have their second wind with the little nap they took.

Bubba has been amazing when it comes to sleeping and where he can sleep. Bubba, Buddy and I had been to Bubba's Doctor appointment and then went shopping. It was nap time for Bubba and he fell asleep on our way to the first stop. I got him out walked around Joann's bought a few items, paid, left and then returned Bubba back to his car seat and strapped him in. All without him waking up. We then stopped at Wal-mart, I didn't want to carry his dead weight around Wal-mart while I shopped trying to keep track of Buddy as well. So I layed Bubba in the top part of the cart where he normally would have sat, and he slept most of the way through our shopping.

Here are shot of all three of the kids in weird sleeping positions.

Bubba just last night

Bubba a couple months ago

Little Buddy

Bean caught spying on us through a vent on the floor upstairs.
She fell asleep, notice the bent leg in the air.

Bubba is Walking

Well he did it!! Tonight marks the night we have another walker in our house. Bubba has now entered the walking world at just over 13 months, he can stand up and take off running, laughing and screeching.
He also has a tooth emerging from his gums, we found that on Sunday.