Will's Tortilla Restaurant

Will loves Tortillas. In a past post we made homemade tortillas. Since then we have made them a few times and they always come out really good (Here's the recipe)
Will wanted to make them again so this time I thought we could expand on it.
I asked him if he wanted to play that he had a Tortilla restaurant and he said yes.
I asked him what he wanted to name his restaurant. First he said "Apples" (huh?) So I asked again and then he said "tortilla" I suggest The Tortilla House. Or Will's Tortilla Factory, but he didn't want those. He just wanted tortilla. So we put some exclamation on the end and made it Tortilla!

We made the tortillas and then turned them into quesadillas and served Westley and Dad dinner.

Will submitted a bill to Dad and earned $1 for his the piggy bank

August Easter Egg Hunt

Westley went camping with Dad, and Will and I were getting bored just being at home. Will found a pack of plastic Easter Eggs in the garage. I asked him if he wanted to do an egg hunt and he was excited to do so.
So, I hid the eggs for him and him (and Major) found them.

Then he hid the eggs for me... in all the same exact places I had just hid them for him, and then proceeded to tell me where they all were before I had a chance to find them myself  :)

That made me think of new twist for an egg hunt.
See if the seeker can then re-hide them all in the same places (as Will pretty much did) but try and even get the same colored eggs in each spot. Maybe I'll try that with Westley and see if he can do it...

Color Mixing in a Plastic Bag

I've done this activity with other children in the past, but finally got around to doing it with my boys. We were talking about what colors it took to make green and purple, so I got out our tote of paints and let them experiment. This is a great activity because it is mess free!

I didn't expect this, but the boys loved it. They wanted to make more and more bags. After about 30 minutes and 10 bags I stopped them, but they would have kept on going.

Using quart size ziploc bags works best as the sandwich bags are not as sturdy. I added a little shaving cream in with the paint and it made it easier for them to mush the paints together and it lighted the colors a little bit.

Broom Ball

Not sure how we went so long without trying out this classic! Will had a great time with it though
Problem with the photo, it gave Dad evidence for how a main vine on the tomato plant got broken (oops!)

Balance Bike Believer

For Christmas, I got my 2 1/2 year old a Strider Balance bike. It took him a few months to get interest in it and get good on it, but now he can speed along pushing with his feet to gain speed and then coasting with his feet up.

He showed interest in riding Westley's 2 wheel bike with pedals but no training wheels just a few days before his 3rd birthday. Westley agreed to giving his bike to Will on his birthday (wasn't hard to convince him as he was told he would get a new bigger bike)

Will got Westley's big boy bike and after about 5 minutes he started riding all on his own. We were camping at the time, and he went probably a half mile of riding all on his own.

He is so proud of himself and so excited, and he is so cute!

Because he has pedaled a tricycle, and learned to balance on the Strider Bike, I think that is why he was able to be so successful on a real bike!