Big Excitement

Here are all the SUPER exciting things that happened at our house today.

N finally got to make the tissue paper forsythia branch that she has been wanting to make since her June issue of High Five arrived.  (Again, love that magazine for a fun easy craft... remember when we made telescopes?)  Here she is furiously cutting tissue paper squares:

Simply glue them on a tree branch you found in the backyard...

...and voila!

Let your baby sister watch, of course.

The finished product!!  (It was N's idea to pair the forsythia with the dead-leaf bouquet that she picked for me earlier in the day.  I think it looks very rustic and artsy, don't you?)

C wore herself out with so much rolling around on the floor that she fell asleep, mid roll!

In this picture, I was trying to capture the adorable little wispy curlicue that is currently growing out of the top of her head... unfortunately, the picture doesn't do it justice.

 So, a grown-up big girl two-year-old who has recently learned to pedal a tricycle needs a new bike helmet to celebrate the occasion, of course.  We made a quick trip to Target this morning and she picked out a princess helmet to match her princess trike.  The coolest thing?  The helmet came with a matching princess bell for her bike.  And so we spent most of the day riding and ringing around the parking lot.

See the new bell on the handlebar?

Luckily, Target sold individual bells so big sister could have one too.  Our parking lot was alive with the sound of bike bells.

I don't think it gets much more exciting than that on a summer day!