Wee Wilson Tales

Christmas 2012 was wonderful! The first of the Christmas gifts came from Bobbie and Melvin. The kids loved their bean bags!!! Christmas Eve was a busy day! We started out at my sister's for our family Christmas. We ALL had a blast opening gifts! Gunnar had been clingy and quick to cry for about 3 days. He didn't start to act better until about 6:00 pm on Christmas Eve. I was one happy mamma to see the end of whatever caused that. I hate when I can't make my kids happy!!! :( Then we were ready to move on to GrandMyron's house. The kids had SO much fun opening their presents.  And, the big kids had fun with our surprise presents too. ;)    Then it was time to head back home. We parents always have loose ends to tie up on Christmas Eve. We put our wrapped gifts to the kids on the couch in the living room this year. When they woke, they rush...

Jax has been asking if we can mark how tall he is on his door frame. I think he got this idea from a movie. Well, I thought it would be a fun project for us to make growth charts during Christmas break. I spent an hour at Michael's picking out little wooden themed decorations, and boards from Lowes. Jax is my independent and artistic child. Therefore, it is not surprising that he rebuked all of the easy wooden themed decor choices. Thank goodness Karen had given me an idea to use crayon art. Jax loved this idea. He spray painted the boards and letters, and chose his crayons. We hot glued the crayons to the top of the board; then, Jax used the hair dryer to melt the crayons. Jax thought this was super cool. He even used the red paint pen to draw all the lines and write all the numbers. Ronin picked his colors and melted them with the dryer as well. But, he let his big brother draw the lines and numbers for him. Gunnar was the only one who loved mommy's original idea of wooden d...