Chunky Monkey is TWO!!!

Oh-TWOodles!

Chunky Monkey is Two!

Happy Birthday to our little man!
We celebrated with a Mickey Mouse theme 
and I made all the decorations for his little party.

Here is the completed banner, want to know how to make it?

Check out the post HERE.

This shirt I picked up at Walmart on clearance for $1.50

And the fabric squares I found at Dollar Tree.

The party hat and pom poms came from Dollar Tree too.

Just picked up some bonding material from our local Joanns

and topped it off with glitter fabric paint that I already had at home.

I decided to make the rest of the hats in the package I picked

up from Dollar Tree for all the guests.

These are juice boxes that I just covered in paper using

a hot glue gun.  And found these little pearl stickers at Joanns.

I set out his Mickey Mouses to guard the presents!

And made his cake with yummy buttercream frosting and

used Organic food dyes that I picked up from Whole Foods.

Nothing too fancy, but he was super excited!!!

Hung up some streamers in the doorway and it become
a game of "boo!" Yeah, these two kept running through them
back and forth and jumping out yelling "boo!"

He made sure to pass out the party hats to all his guests at the party!

His cousins dropped by to give him a card that had a surprise inside...

he found the monster truck!

Blowing out his candles!!!

Mmmmm, cake!!!

Getting ready for the balloon drop... 1.. 2.. 3..

Yay!!! Happy Birthday Chunky Monkey!!!

Chunky Monkey - 24 months stats:

• Letters: recognizes and knows sounds to "S" and "H"
• Numbers: recognizes and can show on fingers number "1"
• Shapes: recognizes and can say "circle"
• Colors: recognizes and can say "white", "blue", "black", and "brown"
• Body: can show you when asked where his "head", "hair", "neck", "chin", "eyes", "nose", "hands", "feet", "knees", "cheeks", "fingers" are
• Can say: "no", "batman", "brother", "mama", "dada", "grandma", "nana", "grandpa", "wheel", "righteous", "yay", "love", "mickey", "cat", "bat", "duck", "frog", "milk", "please"
• Knows sign language for: "please", "thank you", "milk", "more", "cookie", "thirsty"
• Favorite Superhero: batman
• Favorite Toy: monster trucks and trains
• Favorite Character: Mickey Mouse and Batman
• Can do lacing activities on his own
• Loves to paint and color
• Favorite Book(s): (1) Train Stories from Usborne, (2) Little Engine that Could, (3) Bible
• Favorite Movie: The Little Engine that Could (he's borderline obsessed)
• Throws a ball overhand and underhand
• Can pincer grasp correctly
• Can follow two step directions
• Hygiene: can brush own hair, can brush own teeth, can wash own hands

This little guy is growing up too fast!

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah

DIY Mickey Mouse Decoration

My youngest turns 2 this month (where did the time go?!).  And he LOVES Mickey Mouse.  But since this year we are doing ALL that we can to get out of debt, had to be a little frugal for coming up with some decoration ideas.  So, I made a Mickey Mouse wall decoration that I will connect to a banner.

All the products used to make this creation were from Dollar Tree and cost me only $2 altogether.  I used a priority mail box I had in my basement and then bought from Dollar Tree tissue paper (all colors, but pulled out just the red and yellow papers from it), and black crepe paper (couldn't find black tissue paper).

It is SUPER easy to make, but can take awhile to do all the gluing of the tissue paper and crepe paper. That was OK with me though, it was pretty mind numbing for those evenings when my kids just drove me crazy that I sent them to bed early and just picked this up and started gluing.  Great way to ease the whole day over and not think about one thing! :D

First, I used a paper plate and a CD to trace out a Mickey Mouse shape onto the box.

Then I just cut it out with some heavy duty scissors, since the cardboard is thick.

I made myself a stencil for the number 2 by tracing the paper plate shape

onto a sheet of paper and then freehanding my own number 2 in the space

of the circle of where I wanted it.

Just used my stencil to trace the number 2 onto the box

and began gluing red and yellow tissue paper squares

that I scrunched up with a low temp glue gun. 

This is what the number two looks like after it is all filled in with tissue paper.

Then I just cut squares from the crepe paper roll, scrunched it up and

started by gluing pieces all around the number 2 and then filled the

entire box with black crepe paper.

We are now ready to create our banner, will have a post up soon showing you that!

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah