my little valentines.

Happy Valentines Day from 

Laeney and Fiona!

Laeney's Laboratory

We celebrated Laeney's 4th birthday party with a science theme...

I created lab badges for the kids to write their names on

and screen-printed their names on their lab aprons.

Their take home gift was candy in test tubes!

And we had over 5 experiments that the 

Mad Scientist Daddy came up with!

The kids all had a great time..and the parents did too!

hanging art.

It took me a few years to decide what

to put on the big, open wall in Laeney's room. 

The idea came to me one night, after she wanted me

 to hang up another one of her masterpieces, and we

had run out of Fridge space, wall space, canvas space...space. 

So, I bought two hooks from Anthropologie, 

and some nice string and clothes pins from Jo Ann's, 

and created her very own "art-line" to display

some of her favorites pieces of work!

Inspired by my girls.

I love watching my kids create.

I look forward to every picture they paint, scribble, color and cut. 

Maybe it is the artist in me that truly appreciates their creativity, 

or maybe I am just a really proud mom.

Needless to say, I have a really hard time throwing their artwork away. 

Sure, i have totally recycled the papers that are half colored, 

the totally scribbled nonsense, but I sure have kept a lot of "really good ones" too. 

My stack of their "good ones" was getting ridiculous. 

So, I decided to create a collage on a huge canvas of some of my girl's best pieces. 

Finn checking out her work. 

And so it hangs on the big wall down to their playroom, 

where we all admire their beautiful artwork and talk 

about all the things we see in the collage. 

I even put a "double rainbow" on there for Adam since he can't 

stop singing that song! ha!