I wanted orange crib sheets to match the nursery but didn't want to buy new ones. I had 3 green dingy ones from when Grayden was little and was wondering if I could dye them somehow. 

So, I emailed the RIT dye company to see what they thought.  They let me know about this awesome color eraser that they have and said after I use that I should be able to dye them whatever color I want. 

 

So here goes...

 

Crib sheets before (I threw one in the washer already before I remembered I wanted before pictures)

 After color eraser... doesn't look like it did anything!

 Here goes nothing...

After the rinse... awesome color!

 After being dried... a little lighter than I wanted but still awesome!



Mother's Day 2013

 

Grayden made "helping hands" oven mitts for all the grandmas this year.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 And after our visit with Nana, Grandma, Gaga and Baba we went to chill out at Grandpa's. 

 

Saturday we decided to eat out for lunch at Chipotle.  We had finished our lunch and were talking a little when Grayden slipped off of his stool and cracked the back of his head on the bottom of the table.  It was pretty bad so we took him to the ER right away.

  The triage nurse was kind enough to change out the Chipotle napkins don was pressing to his head with gauze and a bandage.

 We still sat there forever (2 hours) without being seen.

When we finally got taken back to a room they applied some numbing creme to his head and was supposed to let it sit for 30 minutes and after about 10 they came back and held him down and stapled him up.  Pretty traumatic if you ask me!

They didn't clean it out, or shave the area or anything.

We are keeping a close eye on it. 

He has a HUGE goose egg on the back of his head... but he says it feels fine.

He will go on Friday to have the staples removed.

I suppose it had to happen sometime... I am always reminded by everyone that he is a boy...and that is what boys do.

 



We had a semi-warm day so we decided to go outside and run off some energy.

Grayden wanted to race Daddy with his lawn mower.

 Of course, Grayden won!



I made these cool laminated sheets for play doh and we had lots of fun with them!

 

 This one you you had to make a face out of play doh.

 Here is Grayden's...

 And here is Don's (If you look close you can see she has a buck tooth).

 This one you had to make eggs for the chicken's nest.

 Someone is being very silly!

 

 And this one you had to make teeth for the alligator. 

 We also practiced the letter R.

It's hard to see... but Grayden circled every R in that story!

He is doing very well with his after school activities!

Easter at Nana's 2013

 

What a HAM!

 

Nathan and Candice got him some cool new balls...

 

And Nana got him a neat basket with bubbles, sidewalk chalk and some candy!

 

When we got home we played with the bubbles on the porch for a little while... but it was really cold out.

Grayden found the "My Buddy" doll that we had tucked away in the spare room closet, and he now insists on sleeping with it.

Very Creepy!