Thank YOU!

It's that time of year to say what we are Thankful for and of course I am thankful for

my family
our home
The United States Navy
good coffee
Michael Buble
my new favorite Land's End shoes*
my husband's true love
flip flops
peanut butter ice cream
my craft closet
hugs and kisses from 'my best daughter ever'

but I am also very Thankful for you! Without my readers (did you notice? almost 100!) I wouldn't have the motivation to continue with Funny Days. I have 'met' some wonderful people since I joined the Bloggy World and I am very Thankful for each and every one of you!




With that I would like to invite you all to leave a Comment so I know that you have stopped by! I promise to stop by and 'visit' each of you too!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!

and isn't that a Fabulous graphic above? Stop by Fabulous K's and tell her!

* These are THE best shoes I have ever owned! So very comfortable!

Lets Talk Turkey

*Thank you for all of the well wishes! I am feeling considerably better than last week - not at 100% yet but I am getting there!

We finally managed to get a Thanksgiving Turkey project done this week and I LOVE how it turned out!

Materials: paper bowl, brown paint, brown/yellow/orange/red foam, googly eyes, glue

While Madison painted the paper bowl brown for the turkey body I cut out all of the foam pieces. I pressed a cup onto a piece of brown foam for the turkey head.

I also cut out a variety of colored feathers.

Before Madison glued all of the foam pieces on I did trim the tips off of all of the feathers so that they would lay flat against the bowl.

Madison took care of all of the gluing!

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

The Blahs

You may have noticed that the blog has been seriously lacking this week and that is because I am currently suffering from my one cold of the year. That's the way it tends to work for me, I get one seriously nasty cold every year although it did show up a bit earlier this year. To be completely honest Playhouse Disney has been the babysitter at our house this week. Sure to some it may seem like a 'bad mommy' thing to do but when I can barely keep my eyes open Mickey Mouse and The Imagination Movers are my best friends! Really isn't that the worse part of being a stay at home mom? No sick time! Ugh!

Thankfully I think the worst of my cold is over and now I am running on coffee and DayQuil - what a combination! Yesterday I was feeling well enough to take Madison to story time at the library.

And before you start shouting at your computer screens that how dare I spread my germs I swear (cross my heart!) that I am not sneezing, coughing or snotting all over the place! Plus hand sanitizer is always in my pocket these days!

While browsing for new books at the library I found only the most perfect book for our house this week! Iris Has a Virus is the beautifully illustrated tale of a young girl who comes down with the flu! Like I said PERFECT for our house this week!


Madison giggled away at bedtime last night listening to this story! On another note I LOVE Madison new found desire to 'read' us her books. Every night after we read our bedtime story Madison says "I can't read the words yet but I will tell you the story" and she then goes through the book telling us all about the story. I love listening to her tell the story because then we get to find out what parts she really pays attention to!

Fingers crossed I am feeling up to some craft time in the next few days so we can get some fun Thanksgiving projects done!

Patchwork Project & Books

If the rest of this post makes no sense please forgive me. I am living on Dayquil and coffee at the moment and may have even fallen asleep while typing! =)

I mentioned last week that I had some project ideas to go along with our latest batch of library books and I am in love with how this one came out!

We recently read Peter's Patchwork Dream by Willemien Min and The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston. Bonus: The Quilt Story is illustrated by Tomie dePaola! Madison and I really enjoyed both of the books and all of their beautiful illustrations.

For our quilt project Madison made a construction paper quilt. I did have all intentions of making a small fabric quilt with fabric markers but I have been feeling rather blah this week so we opted for the construction paper route.

I cut up three different colors of construction paper into 3x3inch squares and Madison decorated them as she saw fit.

To give them a bit more of a quilt look I took a crayon and added stitching along the sides of the squares.

Next up was assembling the quilt. For this part Madison and I layed and glued all of the squares onto a large sheet of scrapbook size cardstock. Madison was so thrilled with how her 'blanket' turned out!

Oh did I mention?

There is an official big girl living in our house!

That's right, we are 100% day and night potty trained!

About two weeks ago we gave up pull-ups too! We had one middle of the night accident but I am not really considering it an accident because she made it to the bathroom but wasn't able to get pj bottoms down and the potty seat on the toilet in time.

I want to run up and down the street screaming that we are a potty trained house! My neighbors would probably call the police so instead I will shout it on here!

WE ARE POTTY TRAINED! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!

Toasty toes

Ugh, Madison hates socks. I can't blame her though because I never wear socks either but we live in New England and frankly it gets cold. We used to have an adorable pair of bunny eared slippers for Mad but she had a hard time walking in them and therefore refused to wear them. When I stumbled upon Mom's Blankies on Etsy I fell in love! I don't usually peddle products on here but I can just assume plenty of you have non-sock children too!

When Madison was a baby we had a TON of Robeez and they were fantastic but of course they don't fit a toddler size 9 so when I found Shoopers on Mom's Blankies there was no hesitation and I immediately ordered Madison a pair! For $12 these was an awesome bargain and a great solution for Madison cold toes.

Since her polka dot shoes arrived Madison has worn them every day. They are very well made with a nice no-slip bottom and fuzzy fleece insides. There are a quite a few different fabrics available, so I am sure there is something available for everyone! Right now Shoopers are available up to a toddler size 10 which I am getting ready to order next; room to grow!

Giving Thanks by Jonathan London

After yesterday's trip to the library we are over flowing with Fall and Thanksgiving themed books for the week! We did our first book related project yesterday to go along with Giving Thanks by Jonathan London.




Madison was a bit confused with the story the first time we read it. She wasn't sure why we would be thanking the sky, bunny rabbits and mushrooms! With a little chat about being thankful for all that we have and all that surrounds us she was more than eager to write down all the things that she was thankful for.

I have seen quite a few different styles of a Thankful Tree but I wanted to incorporate our family into the tree along with the things we are thankful for. I ended up tracing all of hand's onto a piece of brown construction paper for the top of the tree and now when ever Madison looks at it she likes to point out everyone's hands!

Then we each took a set of colored leaves; Madison chose red, I had yellow and daddy grabbed orange. Now we are able to tell apart everyone's Thankful Leaves. Now onto the good stuff!

Madison is thankful for: Mom & Dad, Maddie Mae Bear, The Playground, Friends and Milo
Daddy is thankful for: Amanda, Madison, His Job, Good Friends and Family!
Mommy is thankful for: Our Family, The US Navy, The option to be a SAHM, Our Home and Good Coffee!

I was a bit surprised at how involved Madison became in this project and at bedtime last night she was still listing off the things she was thankful for!