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This week at Toddler Crafts I tackled my daughters birthday party! Kids birthday parties are so much fun!! My kids love the

preparations leading up to their birthday partys!! They have such fun filling the goody bags and planning the activities for

their party’s!

This year my daughter had a princess birthday party!! She was so excited! We had of course the crowns and jewelry that is

necessary for little princesses. We also found princess and toy story silly bandz!! Those were a big hit! If you haven’t heard

of silly bandz yet, they are quite popular with kids, from ages 4-18! Many schools have actually banned them because they have

found them to be distracting. But they are fun for the kids to compare what they are shaped as when they are not at school.

Silly bandz are basically rubber bands that are in different colors and shaped like a variety of objects. When kids take them off and

lay them on the table you can see what shape they are. They make them in shapes like animals, music instruments, sea animals

and many more! We had a castle pinata which was a great hit! I love the pull string pinatas for kids! So much better then

wacking it with a bat!

This tackle was a definite success!! All the kids had fun, it was so much fun to watch!

This week at Toddler Crafts I wanted to discuss an amazing tackle my sister has taken on over the past 5 years.  Some of you might recall this time last year, when I was having weekly tackles to prepare the room for my sister and son to live for the year.  The reason for that was that she was completing her internship for her PhD and it was located by us.  It’s hard to believe that was a year ago!!

This weekend my family and I attended the culmination of her hard work over these past years, we attended her graduation ceremony where she received her PhD.  She has worked so hard these last 5 years while having a family.  I think it is such an amazing accomplishment that I felt it fitting to acknowledge this incredible tackle!!

What have you been tackling?

This week I began the tackle of going through the kids clothes!!  Every season I take out the clothes of the last season, in this case winter, and go through them.  I check to see if there are things that don’t fit anymore or to worn and if so I give them to my nephews or donate them.  Then I store the rest for the next year.  So this week I began doing that, albeit a little late!  I was getting to the point that I really needed more shorts out for my son, so I figured I better get to it!!  After going through the clothes and clearing out the closets I took out the tupperware container full of spring/summer clothes and sorted through those.  Those that would now be to small will be donated and the rest are now in my son’s closet.  I think next week I will tackle my daughters clothes!  That always takes a bit longer as she LOVES to participate in the project.  She likes to try everything on to see if it fits or not.  In the end that is a good thing, since she only keeps the things she really likes, but it does take a while.

What have you tackled this week?  Do you have any season changing rituals that you do at your house?  Are you preparing for summer?  I know I am and I can’t wait!!  Yeah, bring on the sun and fun!!  I am ready for the days outside by the sprinkler and beach!  What are your favorite things to do in the summer time?

This week I tackled planting my garden!!  I always love this tackle!  It feel so good to see everything planted in their nice neat rows and know that soon we will be able to pick our cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, etc in our back yard!  It’s a great learning experience every year for the kids too.  They love seeing what we are planting and trying our vegetables that we grow ourselves!  Here are the before and after pictures (although the before is actually after we had already put our marigolds in)….

Before

After

What have you tackled this week?

It’s starting to feel like ground hogs day with cleaning these closets!!  Last week for tackle it Tuesday I tackled my daughter’s closet, this week I tackled my son’s closet AGAIN!  I must say, I do feel so much better after I organize their closets.  There is nothing worse then not being able to find things when you are looking for them.  Although it takes me a while to go through and organize their closets I find that I am able to put pieces of games together we couldn’t find and clothes that were missing.  That is always satisfying.  Here is the before and after.

What did you tackle this week?