Party Hair!

 Happy Independence Day!  Since it was a special day today, we decided to do something special with the girl's hair.  This took about 45 minutes but I had a good show on to keep her busy.  I originally found this on Pinterest but modified it for my needs...The creator of this hair style found here does a much better job explaining it and I merely put it here on my blog because I can't believe I actually did it! :)

The original Pinterest photo used bobby pins to pin up small chunks of hair.  I feel that bobby pins are unnecessary in a five year old's hair.  So instead I did one large rope braid and then just wrapped it around to make it look like a bun and tied it with a thin rubber band.

Top view with many rope braids.

Bottom view...with, you guessed it, rope braids.

Little Helping Hands

How many of you have young kids who LOVE to help but it usually turns into more work for you when they do?  Today I tried out something I had found on Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/pin/214202525996781224/...not sure how to figure out who thought of it first though! (I'm rather new to Pinterest.)

It feels like I have been working on homework all day and I was trying to figure out how to get lunch on the table for my kids and keep my roll going on the paper I was writing...Here's what I had my four year old do:

Step 1: Cut hot dogs into chunks with a plastic knife.

Step 2: Push spaghetti sticks into hot dog pieces.  I had her stick four halves into each piece.

Step 3: Put them all in the pot

 Step 4: Boil until Al Dente.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Pick the sauce.  Jo wanted spaghetti sauce (which was really quite good).

Step 6: Enjoy! Little brother loved it!

 Jordyn was so proud of herself!  She made our lunch all by herself!  If you're OK with eating processed foods like hot dogs then you really should try it.  I knew the kids would eat it, but wasn't holding high expectations for myself.  It was actually pretty darned good.  Jamie was pretty surprised that Jo cooked for him too.  "But she's not a big human, Mommy!"  Hee hee...