The BOYDelicious Life: Wall of Love

I'm apologizing in advance for the blurriness of these pictures. I think our poor camera is on it's way out :( But don't worry! I enter every drawing I can find to win a new camera and since I'm extremely lucky I expect to hear that I've won a new high tech camera any day now! Are you laughing too? Yeah, my chances of winning are slim, but hey! Crazier things have happened right!?

Anyway,.... I've had a list of fun traditions I've wanted to do with my family for years now and I decided that THIS year is the year we finally begin them. So...introducing our very first February Boyd tradition!

Our Wall of Love

This wasn't originally one of my "traditions" but I was blog stalking when I saw this from Toddler Approved.

If you aren't following that blog yet, you need to start! I've gotten so many awesome ideas from there. When I saw her wall I knew I wanted to do the same thing. I just tweaked mine a bit ;) And let me tell you, it's not exactly easy to get small heart shapes into a big heart shape. It took me some adjusting but I'm pleased with the finished look.

This Monday night we will have a FHE lesson on showing love and from now until Valentines day we will write things we love about each other on the hearts.

Here are some other things we've been up to.

This is one little boy who LOVES his little brother. Collin is always the first one to Tate when he cries and just can't get enough of him. I love it! I'm praying this doesn't change even when Tate becomes mobile :{

Collin is apparently learning how to take pictures. I found several of these when I downloaded my pictures onto the computer. The other ones aren't very flattering to Michael so I left them off :)

Collin gives us instructions EVERY night as to his sleeping arrangements. He tells us where to place certain toys and he has to be covered with all three of his blankets. In the Florida heat that's a killer! He's woken up with hair soaking wet because he sweated so bad, but he won't let me take the blankets off! I've tried. I think I'll have to hide them.

This was such a shock I HAD to take a picture of it. This is as close to cuddling as Collin gets! Michael sleeping during a movie really isn't all that surprising. Seminary teachers, sheesh.

Don't let this picture fool you. He's not potty trained nor are we trying. He just stood up in the bath one day and said he had to go so I sat him down....He didn't go...put at least he's showing interest. I just thought he looked hilarious sitting there so I snapped a picture. That, and it might make good blackmail in the future :)

This little, or not so little man turned 2 months! He weighs 13 pounds! I love my little chunker!

And I just threw this one in because babies are just too cute when they are all clean and wrapped in a hooded towel.

School

This week was tons of fun!

We know for sure Collin is not color blind because he finally learned his colors!

I saw several posts on Pinterest that suggested using the paint chip cards from Lowe's as a color matching game for your kids so that's what I did. Except I tweaked it a bit. ( can you tell I like stealing other people's ideas and then changing them?) As I was looking at my choices I noticed the cards from Better Homes and gardens had a circle at the bottom you could punch out. I'm still not entirely sure why they're that way, but it gave me an idea. Collin isn't quite ready for the original matching game where you put all the cards face down and then try to match them up. He just doesn't get the concept yet.

So I punched the holes out of each card and then had him match the circles to it's color card. (as you can see in the picture below.) It worked really well and was right up Collin's ally!

Tuesday: J is for Jumping

This week I pretty much made up my own activities instead of just going with the ones from Preschool Alphabet like I usually do.

So Tuesday I threw some pillows down on the floor and Collin had to jump over them. Check out that hair!

Then we piled the couch cushions on the floor and jumped onto them. Let's just say he was all over this activity!

We also did this color collage. I was pretty excited for this activity. I remember doing these when I was younger! I had several pictures spread out on the table that I had previously cut out and I let Collin choose his own pictures and put them wherever he wanted. And I just have to say that I am so proud of myself! I have this bad tendency to "fix" crafts that Collin is working on or strongly suggest how he should do certain things. I'm a bit controlling :) I've been trying to be better though and let him do things on his own. Who cares if it's not perfect (insert eye twitch) the whole purpose is for him to learn and have fun. So here is Collin's collage that he did completely on his own!

I love how the Chihuahua dog is almost completely covered. And look how many sweets there are. He's definitely my son :) He really surprised me. I know it's hard to mess a collage up (I mean the whole purpose is to clutter the page with images) but I think Collin's is extra cool.

Wednesday: J is for Jesus
I showed Collin several pictures of Jesus and we talked about each one right before nap time. I can't remember what we were doing that day but I do remember we were pretty busy so it was a nice relaxing activity.

Thursday: J is for Jingle Bells
Collin's best friend came over for a play date so I got out my bells and let them play with them. Their quiet jingling only lasted for about three min. They quickly discovered it was much more fun to chase each other and shake the bells like crazy.

Friday: J is for Jelly Beans

Favorite day!! I bought Jelly Belly jelly beans and had Collin sort them by colors. Then we forgot all about school and just started eating them! There really wasn't much to this day. I didn't really have an agenda and maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much. We kind of just did whatever we wanted. And watching Collin as he tasted each different flavor was so fun! We will definitely be doing this again next year.