Just a picture

Salt Dough Hand Prints!

I first saw salt dough when one of my students made his visual project out of salt dough. It was a visual representation of a battle field-it was huge and heavy, but as solid as a rock. Since then I haven't really thought about it. That is until Pinterest brought it back up again!

I 'repinned' this idea from Parenterest for salt dough crafts. The recipe is 1 cup salt, 1 cup flour, and half a cup of water. I halved the recipe because my kiddos are babies and we really didn't need that much to make hand prints. So we did half a cup of salt and flour and about a fourth a cup of water. I think I added a bit more water because the dough just seemed so dry. Now that the hand prints are already done I think next time we will add less water. It took them forever to dry!!

These hand prints are going to my MIL as a late birthday present. I plan on making hand and foot prints of both the girls for our home. I want to make some every year until they get so big that they think it is obnoxious-luckily, I think that time is far far away!

Obviously their hand prints are not a true representation of their hands so we will have to work on that, but I still think it is cute!

2 Weeks for Zoey!

Here are Zoey's 2 week stats...

Weight: 7lbs 8 ozs; 25th percentile
Heights: 20 and a half inches; 60th percentile
Head: 17th percentile

Now let's compare that to Ellie at 2 weeks; Eleanore was in the 95th percentile for everything...even her head. Zoey is so much smaller compared to her I wonder how she will be as she continues to grow. Will I have two completely different children? Zoey already looks different-no red hair, so much smaller, no monkey ears lol, but she does have the same mouth and nose.

We shall have to see.

I can't wait!

Zoey is here!

Zoey Grey Davidson was born June 28th, 2012; 6 lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long! She is incredible, already a good sleeper, takes her formula like a champ, smiles and laughs in her sleep!

Her big sister is doing as well as expected. A bit jealous that she doesn't get as much mommy time as she is used to, but I think she will adjust pretty quickly. Ellie gives Zoey kisses and tries to give her the bottle and pacifier-she also watches over her as we change her or hold her.

Zoey has her 2 week check up on Thursday so I'll give updated stats then or this weekend. I assume my posts will drop off even more now since being a mom of two little ones is pretty complicated/busy.

Doesn't she look like Ellie?!?!

Two under 2...game on.