Our Saturday started with an early AM play date with sweet little Cami, Amanda and Ben. The girls had a tea party, colored, ate way too many snacks and took turns drumming. We enjoyed donut holes, kolaches and so.much.coffee.
Cami was wearing the most gorgeous headband made by her super-crafty mama (her blog has lots of great DIYs!) and she also owns Squishy Cheeks Bowtique, that you can visit here.
Amanda also made Harper this adorable hair clip and a couple of sparkly bows! (you can get the set here).
Harper’s dress- target
After our play date, we ate lunch and took naps. Then we walked to the park as we always do on weekends when the weather is nice.
Sunday morning started off with a wonderful FaceTime convo with my friend Heather in Toronto. She is eight months pregnant with her first baby and I’m so excited for her and can’t wait to meet the little babe when we visit Toronto later this year.
Harper got really cuddly with Lulu this morning. They’ve been so sweet together lately.
We headed to City Centre to meet Kevin’s parents for lunch at Ruggles Green. We got there at 11 and by 11:30 it was packed. We could barely get a table outside. Ruggles looks onto an open AstroTurf area where kids can run around and play. All of the think-ahead parents brought balls to play with. I brought bubbles but it was windy. Note for next time- bring a ball.
These two— making the same “where is my food?” expression…
City Centre had live music today and we danced around after lunch. The cutest thing ever was when two sweet little girls joined us and Harper was just smitten with them…she was SO happy the wanted to play and they all held hands. It was precious to witness. We played ring-around-the-rosie.
Today was the first day (like, ever) that Harper didn’t nap. She usually sleeps for 2-3 hours after lunch, but we were having so much fun at City Centre (she didn’t want to leave!) that we got home after 1:30. She fell asleep in the car and usually we can transfer her right to her crib, but today she didn’t want to sleep…so we painted.
I set up her play table so we could paint Valentines together. It was so fun that she was able to participate this year! We used Martha Stewart paints— they come off of skin with water and are nontoxic— and the colors are super vibrant!
This is the first step in the Valentines and I’ll put them all together, but they were super fun to make. All you need are paint brushes, paint and pre-cut hearts (I got mine at Michael’s Arts & Crafts).
Speaking of Valentine’s Day— I also made this envelope chair back today. I wanted something somewhat similar to the ones they sell at Pottery Barn Kids, and I decided to take the DIY route since all I needed was some ribbon, felt, one foam sheet and a glue gun.
It ended up being a little more complicated than I had anticipated (damn you, scallops!), but I’m glad I made it and I think it looks sweet on her chair…and I saved about $15, plus shipping 😉
Hope y’all had a fantastic weekend!
The chair backer turned out so cute! I was going to attempt one myself but decided that would probably result in Sadie not getting one…so I bit the bullet and ordered her the mailbox one from PBK last month 😉
I bet it's adorable 🙂 I wanted to make one before I bought one but I might get her the mailbox style when she's older!
Aww love the chair back, I've been meaning to put one together for Scarlett 🙂 I want to stuff it with little treats and notes, I think she'd LOVe it this year! Love the valentines, Harper is quite the little artist 😉
haha you should have seen her torso and arms when we were done- paint everywhere!
What a perfect weekend, love the chair backer!!!
thanks girl! 🙂
What brand are the diamond crayons? My 14 month old has a hard time using ordinary crayons, and I think those would work great for her. TIA!
they are from target- in the aisle with all of the other crayons (i forget what they are called) but to be honest, they don't have a lot of color payoff and aren't great quality… 🙁
I love Harper's play table where is that from? The playdate pics are very cute. Loving that little flower crown headband! I would love to find a green jacket like the one you are wearing. I got one on Amazon a while back and the fit isn't right.
it's from ikea- check out my post about it here: https://veronabrit.blogspot.com/2014/12/ikea-hack-latt-playtable-chairs.html the green jacket is by Lucky Brand
Love the painted Valentine's and the adorable little bows! So fun and festive!
thank you so much! 🙂
I've been meaning to make the chair envelopes for years now! It's like the first thing I saw at PBK that I was like, I can do that! …but alas, still haven't. Ha. great weekend!
Love the chair back!!! Those valentine's turned out fabulous to!! Have a great a week!
Love baby Harper's Valentine art! lol
Such a cute chair back!
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Oh my goodness, her sweet little mail diy is precious V! I need to make one for scarlett asap!!