Owen and Grace Ann's Room

I was so excited to get moved into our Harrogate house and decorate the kids rooms!  In our Huntsville house, Owen's room was gender neutral so it was so much fun to make his room into a little boys room when we moved.  We didn't even bother decorating a room for Grace Ann before we moved since we knew we would be moving so soon after she was born. 

I wanted to share pictures of their rooms for our friends and family that haven't gotten a chance to see our Harrogate house! :) 

On a side note...Justin is over half way finished with his first semester of medical school!! YAY!!



This is Owen's room looking in from his doorway!!

His reading nook!

We reused his letters that were hanging over his crib at the Huntsville house and painted them to look like a road! :)

View from his closet. I love his room looking like a boys room after having a "baby" room in the Huntsville house! 

I still smile every time I walk past Grace Ann's room!!  I love seeing PINK!! :)

Grace Ann's reading corner! We were inspired to decorate her room in black and white after we saw this chair!  I LOVE this chair!! :)

The dress hanging above her bed was the dress I wore when I came home from the hospital and then eventually the same one Grace Ann wore when we brought her home.

Pruitt Playschool (Letter R)

I have been wanting to do some sort of educational activity with Owen since he is at home with me everyday.  So...when my friend Michelle shared one of her friends blogs with me I became inspired to create my own little "school" for Owen. I am going to teach Owen the alphabet by doing fun little crafts and activities for each letter. I will spend one week on each letter beginning with the letter "R". 

One day after nap, we made red rice crispy treats!  Owen had a blast helping me make them!

I put up a magnetic white board under his bulletin board and put letters on the board.  He goes on a letter hunt to find the letter we are learning about for the week.

More fun with magnetic letters!

I found some very easy Bible verses for him to memorize each week that start with the letter we are learning!  I really just thought he would repeat the verse after me and I would call it a success, but he actually memorized it!!  After we said the blessing on Monday night, we were telling daddy about his Bible verse and he recited it!!  We had a lot of fun this week calling everyone and having him recite his verse!  I just melts your heart!

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!  Philippians 4:4

We traced the letter "R" with our cement truck on Monday morning to introduce the letter!

We made a ribbon collage with leftover ribbon that we had from Grace Ann's hair bows.  He was not very interested in putting the ribbon on the paper but was VERY interested in how the glue stick tasted!

 

This is picture of the bulletin board outside of Owen's room with the work we did last week with the letter "R"!

LEAVES and a pumpkin craft

We are overwhelmed by the amount of leaves we have at our house in Tennessee!!  During Justin's study breaks this past weekend we had fun letting Owen play outside in the piles of leaves!

 I love how Owen has his tongue sticking out in this picture!  You can tell he is concentrating so hard on getting to that pile of leaves!

I was inspired by my friend Caitlin to try out a pumpkin craft! I used leftover ribbon from Grace Ann's hair bows to decorate these pumpkins.  They turned out pretty cute! I like the shorter one the best so I think next year I will get all short pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch

My friend Michelle told us about a pumpkin patch just down the street from our house so we decided to check it out tonight after Justin got home from school.  Owen had a blast running around picking out his pumpkin! Grace Ann had fun also! :)

The Croup

Owen came down with The Croup this past weekend while we were in Huntsville.  We took him to the doctor while we were home and his doctor there gave him some steroids to help with his cough.  Poor thing has had a rough couple of days but I think he is on the mend.  One good thing that comes with him being sick is that he likes to snuggle a lot more ! :)

 Look how much Grace Ann's hair is growing! I can't wait till it is long enough for me to "fix" everyday!

Middelsboro Library

Owen checked out his first book from the library today!  The Middelsboro library has a really neat childrens room with little computers, puzzles, coloring tables, stuffed animals, games, and childrens books. 

 Grace Ann likes to go to the library too! 

 Owen's not real sure about the computers just yet so he likes to take out EVERY.SINGLE.PUZZLE. and dump out EVERY.SINGLE.PIECE.and then "help" me put them back together! :)

This is a picture of the childrens room from the door.  Beginning in October they will have a Toddler Time every Wednesday!  Our playgroup is SUPER excited about this starting up in a few weeks!

Owen was so proud of his book he "chose" to check out!  He kept saying "pay for it" while I was paying the $20 for our library card!  I'm a little anxious to see how he is going to handle returing the book in a few weeks.

Playgroup Movie

Our playgroup took a field trip to the movies this afternoon!  We took 4 toddlers and 3 babies to the movies this afternoon to see Cars 2.  Owen did excellent and sat in his own seat during the entire movie!  Grace Ann did well also.  I nursed her as soon as the movie started and then she napped and sat or stood in my lap until the movie was over. 

The movies here (in the woods) only cost $2.50 and children 3 and under are free!  Also, on Tuesdays they have dollar popcorn and drinks!  SCORE!  So...Owen, Grace Ann, and I went to the movies and got two popcorn's, and two Sprite's for $6.50! 

We will definitely be going back to the movies soon!