Day 4

It is day 4 of my Facebook challenge, which is a picture of me and a family member. This is me and my cousin, Hailey. We are only a few months apart and to this day have never fought. If I say, "You wanna?' she says, "Yes." 

It's Winter TIme...Well in the sink and sensory box it is

This year we are doing a messy activity, craft, and another non-messy activity every day. Each week we will cook and have a sensory box. I have been planning since August or September last year, so I have tons of fun stuff to do with Bo this year.

We started our day by making t-shirts.

We put a piece of paper with drops of paint on it into the salad spinner.

This is the "I'm ready to paint" face.

He had to put his leg on top of it while he spun it  LOL.

Then I pressed the paper onto the shirt. This is my shirt.

This is Bo's shirt. Both were designed by Bo.

The papers we used turned out pretty too, so we kept them.

Then he jumped on the trampoline.

After lunch, a nap, and a swim lesson we made lava lamps.

 I filled it half with water and blue food coloring and half with vegetable oil. Don't use too much food coloring or it doesn't look as cool.

 Next we threw in an Alkaseltzer tablet. He kept calling it rocket fuel.

 Then we did the easiest yet one of the most fun things in the book. I fill a sink with water, soap, ice, plastic dishes, some animals, and sponges (More things just seemed to keep finding their way to the sink).

The sponges were icebergs, boats and here it was a dinosaur mouth. 

We also did a small-world-play sensory box.

 The base was fake snow I found at a garage sale. I added some arctic animals, caps off starch and laundry soap and scoops out of...well I actually don't know. Instead of doing a new box every day like last year we are doing one box a week.

Please let me know what you think in a comment below.

Day 3

For day 3 of the Facebook challenge I'm posting a picture of the cast of my favorite show. 

I live with Sheldon. My brother acts exactly like him. Anyways short sweet and to the point because Bo wore me out today.

Day 2

Happy Mother's Day! I didn't get anything on my bucket list done today because I was hanging out with my mom and preparing my babysitting stuff. I'm so excited to start watching Mr. Bo tomorrow. I have been planning since September. There will more on that tomorrow. Here is my day 2 picture for the Facebook challenge:

This is my little brother, Grant. I have been the closest to him longer than anybody else. We have our fights, but we get along most of the time. We both do karate and love being active outdoors. I love him to pieces... most of the time.

I wrote this poem about him for my English class this year.

Why do you pick, pester and poke?

You make me wish I had an invisibility cloak

I loved you to pieces when you were 2 or 3

But now that you’re bigger I like you best when you are asleep

I ask you daily to stop touching my pony tail

When it comes to listening you are an epic fail

How hard is it to keep your hands to yourself?

So don’t whine when I hit you after I tried to be nice

Believe it or not you’re not always right

When I’m around you I’m always uptight

I love you but you are a pain in the butt

PLEASE stop acting like a 16-year-old boy

If you have any ideas of what I can add to my bucket list please comment below.

Day 1

25. This is my picture for the first day of the Facebook challenge. Here are 15 facts about me:

1. I have done karate for 9 years.
2. My favorite color is red.
3. I have a Harry Potter obsession.
4. I'm in need of a pintervention.
5. I've never seen The Lion King.
6. I've eaten Taco Bell once in my entire life (this year in fact).
7. The first fish I ever caught was a 1/4 of an inch from the state record. I was only 2 years old when I caught it and it pulled me in.
8. I have hard contacts.
9. I can't roll my hand palm up, so I can't get changed from a drive thru.
10. I'm graduating high school from the mall. No really, for the last 2 years my school has been in the mall.
11. I have OCD like tendencies.
12. I have chronic knee pain in both knees.
13. My closet is sorted by type of shirt and each section is in rainbow order.
14. I have to take my contacts out with a plunger.
15. I enjoy unicycling.

Hope you enjoyed these fun facts. Keep checking back. I am going to try and post everyday.

Summer Bucket List 2013

Today was my first day of summer vacation! I'm super excited to get started on my bucket list and start babysitting. As you might have noticed this post isn't about babysitting. It dawned on me that some of my readers might have teens and want ideas for them too, so I decided to post what I'm doing this summer as well as my babysitting stuff.

Here's the list:

1. Take before and after pics
2. Let my hair grow out
3. Wear different hair style
4. Have a picnic
5. Keep a summer journal
6. Take lots of  pictures
7. Harry Potter Marathon
8. Wizarding World
9. Read 3 books
10. Make a shirt
11. Learn new weave
12. Wrap earbuds in floss
13. Fill coloring book
14. Make smoke bomb
15. Make time capsule
16. Learn to knit
17. Make secret book box
18. Milk jug igloo
19. Cool hand art thing on Pinterest
20. Make baseball bracelet
21. Light a dandelion on fire
22. Master unicycling
23. Finish Chicago scrapbook
24. Post-it note a car
25. Complete 101 day Facebook challenge
26. Learn to juggle
27. Learn some sign language
28. Learn calligraphy
29. Write well left handed
30. Send Hogwarts acceptance letters to people
31. Learn to crochet
32. Learn to finger knit
33. Make newspaper basket
34. Make Moccasins
35. Make both books
36. Mail Lauren a “hug”
37. Glow in the dark bubbles
38. Burn all of my homework
39. Find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop 
40. Eat a whole role of hubba bubba at once
41. Make wish bracelets
42. Go to a park
43. Trampoline guy on hand
44. Diet coke and mentos
45. Glowing Mountain Dew
46. Stone hot pad
47. Bandana quilt
48. Juggling Balls
49. Paint fight
50. Hair wraps
51. Popsicle stick chain reaction
52. Build model car
53. Blow up model car
54. Summer playlist
55. Clean up regular playlist
56. Learn all of the brown belt kata
57. Screen print something

I sure the list will continue to grow so check back periodically. If you have any more ideas please comment below.

Summer is Almost Here

I only have 22 days of school left (not including weekends) or 30 (with weekends) however you see it. I am graduating in 38 days, 22 hours, 48 minutes and 31 seconds. Since I am headed to college in the fall and this is my last summer as a "kid" I want to make the most of it. Since I never babysit teens, but I know some of my viewers have teens I thought I would post what I'm doing as well as what I'm doing with Bo.

I have started my summer bucket list and Pinterest board. I'm hoping do at least one thing a day and get it all done by the time school starts. Part of my goal in doing the things is to get me out of my comfort zone because I've never left it...ever...not even once. I'm kind of an introvert. Anyways I will be posting that for you guys this summer.

I have already completed my lessons plans for my summer with Bo and have almost bought everything too. We will do a craft, activity, and something messy every day. Each week we will have a new small-world-play sensory box. Since I will have him three days a week each day we will do something special. One day a week we will cook, on another we will go to the park and on the final day we will go to the library. I'm hoping the toddler reading program is run on one of these days, but if not that's fine we can still go read.

I'm am super pumped for Summer 2013! Stick around for stories, how-tos and lots of ideas. If you have any suggestions for my bucket list, blog, babysitting or you just wanted to say hi leave a comment. I would love to hear from you guys. I have over a thousand views, but no comments. Let me know what you guys think.