Mom's Day prequel

During the days leading up to Mother's Day......

...we tried to get a good 2 year old picture of Tripp in front of some of the blooming flowers. Unfortunately, Tripp has been "over" the picture thing for quite some time. :-(

He use to be a ham, now he turns away, so we had to try tickling him so the pics are awkward.

Then we decided to get to work on our Mom's Day gifts. We wanted to make something for the women in our lives, but I wanted the majority of the work to be done by Tripp & mail-able. So, we decided to make bookmarks with pressed flowers.

Instead of waiting weeks with our flowers pressed between book pages - we implored a different technique and used the microwave!

• Place fresh flowers in coffee filters
• Place flower filled coffee filter in between 2 paper towels
• Now sandwich it between 2 ceramic tiles
• Rubber band them together
• Microwave for 30 second blasts
• Between "blasts" take the tiles out, stand on them and check your flowers
• Remove the filters from between the tiles
• Let air dry
• Flowers will peel up
• Finished!!

Here are the flowers (from our front yard) ready to go, snuggled in their coffee filters.

While we waited, Tripp enjoyed a Popsicle

Flowers drying

Tripp modge podged the flowers onto the bookmarks

The bookmarks drying.

They have pictures of Tripp with : Grandma, Grandma Amy & Great Granny

Unfortunately the daisies didn't peel up quite right way and the lilacs were too thick for the modge podge. So we stuck with the pretty little yellow flowers.
After that we had them laminated and cut out a slot for the pretty yellow ribbon with orange butterflies that Tripp picked out.

Sorry! I forgot to take a picture of the finale product

We also made the cards with scraps of paper that Tripp picked out.

The next day we bought a new stove. (Ours broke during Easter)
OOOOooooo AAAAAhhhhhh...pretty, isn't she

We went to Best Buy to buy the stove - gotta love that 18 months of no interest!

That's what I call a recession buster!

And of course...Bob took the opportunity to once again try to talk me into buying Tripp a Wii, or X-Box, or Play Station


Tripp playing "Rock Star"

Yes, I know - very cute....

I promise he'll (or should I say They'll) get a game station when Tripp's older.

...until then, coloring books & other imagination stimulating toys will have to do

For Mother's Day, Tripp made me this beautiful small

tote bag complete with outlines of his tiny hands.

I Love it!

Our good friend Dawn came to visit for the weekend! We see Dawn about once every 2 years. She lives in LA with her hubby, 2 boys, horses, dogs, etc..... Why is she in CT? Well, she's not. She's in NYC prepping for the Survivor Finale. Yeah, we've got show business friends :-)

On Mother's Day we met up with Grands Capano & went to the Bronx Zoo.

Don't worry, a big Bronx Zoo post is coming soon!