Tag: Moxie

Egg Hunt 2014

Posted on by jesslee

Bibi and Babu came to town a couple weeks ago and helped us host an epic egg hunt for friends.  Our wonderful neighbors with a fabulous backyard offered to let us use their space.  So we “hid” over 100 eggs and drank mimosas and ate delicious food while the kids hunted.  The kinds of prizes included in the eggs were: dinosaurs, animals, raisins, chalk, race cars, dollar coins (!), and other toddler friendly stuff.  Each kid got a bank too.

It was an absolutely wonderful day and we appreciated everyone coming out to play.

Bear comes for a visit

Posted on by zsmd

This week we had a visitor: Aunt Bear (or as Mox says, “Beh”)!  She stayed with Mox and Jess while Strider went to a conference in Colorado.  It was wonderful.  We went to the zoo, a graveyard, on walks, to music class, and even survived because Bear was here.  Seriously.  It would have been a mess without her.

Mox and Bear check out a snake.

Watching the orangutan cross by.

She loved the goats so much she wanted  to join them.

We wrapped up the day in a mess.  

After a wardrobe change we walked around Oak Hills Cemetery 

Sensory Bin Win

Posted on by jesslee

Today we are cleaning out cabinets and organizing stuff in the kitchen. All chores that are not toddler friendly. Well, we tried our first stab at sensory bins. 

We made it from left over pasta I was going to throw away and a few wine corks (don’t judge) and plastic animals. 

I saved an egg carton a few months ago and that’s where she organized what she found. Oh: and the towel. That was my way of trying to contain the crazy. I think it mostly worked. 

She was entertained long enough to get a few shelves reorganized so that’s a win. I saved all the noodles in a ziplock. Maybe we will do this again sometime. 
Back to cleaning. Blech. 

Crocs

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Strider has bad feet. It seems the only shoes he can wear semi-comfortably for a whole day are crocs. He has been wearing them since we moved to Colorado in 2004. Our tradition of croc wearing has now passed to Mox. She likes them because she can (almost) put them on herself. Also: compared to her friends she has giant feet. We are so proud. 

Checking out a puppy

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At last month’s baby brunch we went to a friend’s house and got to see a puppy. We also did a toddler activity swap. It was awesome. Moxie made out like a bandit. We contributed button snakes. 

Notice moxie is the tallest. By a lot. 

She got stamps as an activity. She mostly stamped herself. 

Play dough! She mostly likes to make tiny pieces and then try to eat them. 

Pom poms as a matching exercise? Nope. A dumping and flinging exercise. 

Toddler Dance Party came with a microphone, ribbons to dance with and a CD with some serious jams. 
We got a few others but no pictures yet.