We are still here....

This week it finally stopped raining (not that I am complaining, the rain is nothing compared to the catastrophic weather in some parts of the country) so we have been doing a lot of outside activities. The sun is out and we are loving it!

We went to a fun birthday party for Alex's cousin.

A super fun bounce house

Alex's 1st sack race

Pinata loot

 We visited Nana (Alex's Great Grandmother) in Maine.  Daddy and Alex took a spin on her lawn tractor. LOL

We went to the beach and played in the sand and some warm tide pools.

We also planted our vegetable garden. I can't wait till it starts growing. We planted string beans, cucumbers, bell peppers, carrots, spinach, lettuce, cantaloupe, pumpkins, zucchini and sunflowers :) Garden photos to come soon!

Check out some more great outdoor play at  Mama Pea Pods Outdoor Play Blog Hop

Some More Photo Challeges

Show and Tell "From Below" at Paper Heart Camera

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Alex looking down from a big rock on one of our rainy day explorations.

"Blue" Photo Challenge at The Paper Mama

My blue eyed boy ♥  

I Heart Faces {Yellow}

Alex sitting in a big excavator at "Touch A Truck" Day.

Check out all the "Yellow" Photography at I Heart Faces

Warmth of the Sun

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." -Max Muller

 Check out all the beautiful flower photo challenge entries at I Heart Faces.


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Green Shirts

Unintentionally Alex and his cousin wore matching shirts to church. They were so cute. I am entering this photo in the Friends Photo Challenge at The Paper Mama.

Through The Viewfinder

For Mother's Day my wonderful husband and son bought me a vintage Ansco Rediflex camera. It is a simple twin lens box camera from the 1950's. Why would I want this? I have been interested in try some TTV Photography for quite a while. A quick definition of TTV Photography is a photo taken with your digital camera through the viewfinder of  a old camera. It acts as sort of filter. I have seen some very beautiful photos using this technique and was excited to give it a try. So here are a couple of my first TTV photos. I need to work on my "contraption." The "contraption" is something used to link the two cameras and block out any excess light. Right now I just have a crude piece of cardboard that is held together with some masking tape. I think will be this weekend's project. Anyway here is a few shots that I took. 

Photo Challenge -Food

I'm entering this photo of Alex enjoying a chocolate strawberry in the Food- Photo Challenge

 

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Show and Tell Challenge: Silhouette

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Fun in the Garden

This morning we read A Garden of Opposites by Nancy Davis.

This is a simple book with great illustrations. It teaches basic opposite concepts and has a great gate-fold displaying the whole garden of opposites. Very cute. We enjoyed it, and it had some new opposites that Alex didn't know.

After reading the book we made a little flower garden of our own. We used construction paper, Do A Dot paints and cupcake liners. Alex painted the cupcake liners

 I had cut out "stems and leaves" out of construction paper. Alex glued them all on a piece of blue paper.

 

He added a yellow pom-pom to the center of the flowers and I guided him in making a short caterpillar and a long snake with his Do A Dots, just like in the book. 

This afternoon we had a fun time playing outside. Alex searched for bugs. He "caught" a earth worm.

He decided to make a birdie after hearing a crow "cawing." He made it out of sticks. I was impressed. Maybe he has a future as a sculpture artist.

I Heart Faces {Soft and Sweet}

The theme over at I Heart Faces is soft and sweet. This is a old photo of Alex. This is his first Easter, he was 3 days shy of a month old and had just finally came home from the hospital. I recently came across it and decided to do some post processing. I think it fits the theme pretty well, what is more soft and sweet than a sleeping newborn wearing bunny ears.

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