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Foam sheet Easter eggs
(March 7, 2012) Easter is coming, so here is a quick toddler craft we made last year but forgot to post about. I got foam sheet egg shapes at the dollar store and asked Nico if he wanted to decorate them for Easter. As usual he picked the color of the egg and the paint, I poured some on a tray and gave him a paint brush, he wasn’t to interested so I gave him a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, Easter, Glitter, Holiday Crafts, Home
Crêpes lapin et oeufs de Pâques
(8 Avril 2012) Pour Pâques 2012, Nico voulait des crêpes pour le déjeuner, alors j’ai pensé les faire un peu spécial. En utilisant notre recette habituelle de crêpes, j’ai fait une forme de lapin à main levée pour Nico et j’ai fait le visage après en utilisant des pépites de chocolat, vous pouvez aussi utiliser des raisins secs ou tout autre chose que vous voulez/avez. Je sais que certains d’entre vous peuvent paniquer et dire que … Read entire article »
Easter bunny and eggs pancakes
(April 8, 2012) For Easter 2012, Nico wanted pancakes for breakfast so I thought I’d make them a little special. Using our usual pancake recipe, I free handed a bunny shape for Nico and made the face after using chocolate chips, you could also use dry raisins or whatever else you’d like/have. I know some of you may freak out and say you can’t free hand a bunny, I also made eggs with a cookie cutter … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cooking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Ziraf – Coffrets d’activités éducatives pour la maison/garderie
Vous connaissez peut-être les trousses Américaines de bricolage, livré à la maison, Kiwi Crate et BabbaBox? Grâce au blog, je les connais, sinon il est dur de s’en procurer ici. Grâce à une amie Américaine nous avons pu recevoir 3 mois de Kiwi Crate, merci Gina de Connecting Family and Seoul! Leur boîtes sont d’un thème différent chaque mois, il contiennent tout pour faire les bricolages (2-3 par mois). C’est bien mais, je ne sais … Read entire article »
Filed under: Acceuil, Activités, Bricolages, Français, Home, Tous les jours, Vie
Rice meatballs in tomato soup
(Made March 3, 2013) This is a recipe my mother made when I was little and I continued with it. Nico likes them with a minimum of sauce (mister anti-sauce, lol), I like them because they are simple to make and the prep time is only 10-15 mins, perfect when you have kids. You can make bigger batches and keep in the fridge for quick lunches or dinners for a week. We put the rice and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cooking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Kid painted chairs
(Jan. 23, 2012) I bought little wood chairs a long time ago (pre Nico) at a thrift shop, I knew I’d have kids and wanted good old solid wood furniture. So now years later, Nico was using them in their used white paint. One day, I asked him if he wanted to paint them, he was very excited, so I promised to sand them a bit (just to rough them up) and we’d paint them. … Read entire article »
The runaway color experiment
(Jan 19, 2013) We decided to do a quick fun experiment with Nico, his first one. We took a deep plate poured a little milk (we used 2%) in and added a few drops of food coloring, Nico picked blue. Using a skewer, he swirled the color around, flipped the skewer around and dipped it in liquid dish soap, now be ready for the magic. Take the soap end and stick it in the middle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Home, Indoors
Chinese style meatballs and spaghetti
(Feb10, 2013) This is another favorite of Nico’s after vegetable soup rice (it’s not a soup, but a creamy rice). He LOVES pasta and rice, those are his 2 favorite things to eat, he could have them every day! He doesn’t eat regular spaghetti sauce anymore but he will eat meat and sometimes likes it with soy sauce. He also seems to like creamy sauces or sauces like honey garlic or teriyaki. Anyways, my mother … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cooking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Pretend play – Emergency services (E.M.T./doctor)
(Jan. 6, 2013) Nico loves the show Doc McStuffins (Docteur LaPeluche, we only get it in french) and since then we got him a medical suitcase with doc tools in them. Since he’s a single child we are his play partners and this time Alex and several plush were his patients. At first he examined Alex, listening to the heart, checking eyes & ears and temperature taking. After that he moved on into his “ambulance” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Home, Indoors
Grab a bag! (motor skills game)
(Jan 8, 2013) As he does many times a day, Nico went downstairs to see grandma. About 5 minutes later, my mother calls me over to see Nico’s new game. She put some smaller reusable bags in a big plastic tub and gave him the hand grabber and had him grab bags with it. It takes lots of hand strength and coordination and he was pretty good at it, having fun and working on motor … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Home, Indoors
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