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new home for Bright Little Buttons

julieweegens — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:22:55 +0000

I would like to announce my new home over at brightlittlebuttons.com! Please update your links, e-mail subscriptions, feed subscriptions, etc. Thank you!

craft: wave bottle

julieweegens — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:32:29 +0000

I am always looking for craft/activity ideas to make for or with Jonah. I found this one in a book we have full of toddler activities.

Ingredients:

-Clean, empty soda bottle (book said 16 oz, mine was 20)
-Food coloring
-Water
-Baby Oil
-Glitter, beads, sequins, etc. (optional)

Making the wave bottle is super simple. Fill the soda bottle about 1/3 full with water. Then put in a couple drops of food coloring, and whatever else you want to put in. I have had these little red heart glittery sequin-y confetti things FOREVER (like, probably 10 years at least — does that make me some kind of craft hoarder?) and have never been able to figure out anything good to do with them. Well, I think this is the perfect use. Next, fill the bottle the rest of the way with baby oil. I used pretty much the whole bottle, bringing the total cost of this craft to $1.98. Put some strong glue on the inside of the lid and screw it on. That’s it! The water looks like waves crashing around when you shake the bottle.

Jonah was really intrigued by the wave bottle. I love crafts like this. It was really cheap and really easy, and took less than 5 minutes to make. Now I’m on the lookout for my next crafty activity!

imitations

julieweegens — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:48:01 +0000

When I took the video of Jonah pointing out numbers, I also got this. He barely speaks, but will imitate a dinosaur and a cow. Strange kid.

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numbers

julieweegens — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:33:07 +0000

I found out over the weekend that Jonah has a skill that I had no knowledge of. I will take the credit for helping him learn his shapes and his colors, both of which he knows pretty well, but I’ll have to give the credit to my parents and Jonah’s “Scout phone” for this one. Apparently Jonah knows his numbers. Well, up through ten. Including zero! I tried to get a video of him showing off this skill, but he was not being the most cooperative. I got him pointing out a few, though. It’s blowing my mind.

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DIY Faucet Extender

julieweegens — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:34:43 +0000

I’ve been looking around for a faucet extender, but hadn’t been able to find one locally. My friend Laurie suggested I make one! I got a flour scoop for $2.97 and Aaron did the rest. He cut most of the handle off so it would fit, drilled a hole through what was left of the handle, and used a zip tie to attach it. Super easy and 1/4 of the price of the real thing. Now Jonah can stand on his little stool and actually wash his hands and brush his teeth at the sink.

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updates

julieweegens — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:19:31 +0000

I’m going to bother you briefly with a couple of small blog-related announcements:

I started a Facebook fan page for the blog. You can “like” it to get news about the site and see when I post new entries. It’s located here, or you can click on the link on the left side bar.
I’ve been accepted as part of the Top Mommy Blogs community. You can vote for me once a day, which will help me move up the list, so that more people can find my blog. It takes one click. Just click on the icon on the upper left side bar and you’re done!
I also changed the layout, so if you’re looking at this in a feedreader or something like that, click here to see it. Let me know what you think!

family

julieweegens — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:04:53 +0000

I have the best family ever. :) We’ve been having lots of fun with various iPhone camera apps lately.

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craft: pom pom push

julieweegens — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:41:47 +0000

I finally got around to making the other activity I’d had in mind for Jonah. I found the idea here (via Pinterest).

I used a tupperware container I already had, and decided to color each hole a different color, since Jonah is old enough to know his colors pretty well. I used permanent markers to color around each hole. The purple was a little off, but most of the colors matched pretty closely. I used a silver sharpie for white.

I bought a thing of pom poms at Wal-Mart for $3. There were 100 in the pack. This is about half of them. Which is good because if we lose some, which we’re bound to, I’ll have replacements.

I showed Jonah how to push the pom poms through the holes, and he automatically started matching the colors. He’s a smart one.

I made the holes small enough that it’s a bit of a challenge for him to push the pom poms through. I was hoping this wouldn’t frustrate him, and so far, it hasn’t.

I made this a couple of days ago, and he has brought it to me many times since then for me to open it up and empty out the pom poms. So this is definitely a success!

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a fun custom order

julieweegens — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:17:18 +0000

I just finished up a custom order for a friend and wanted to share it with you. She’s going to be in a wedding next month and wanted jewelry and a pair of shoe clips in “Malibu blue”. She also wanted to keep the jewelry very simple. Here’s what I came up with.

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love love love

julieweegens — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:55:57 +0000

I had an excellent day. The reason?

This kid has been AWESOME the past few days. He has been super sweet and love-y. It seems like I get a hug every 10 seconds! I love it.

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