Breast Milk Lotion

3 ounces of breastmilk
3 ounces oil (Grapeseed, Olive, Coconut)
1 tablespoon of beeswax
a few drops of Vitamin E oil
optional: add essential oils for scent


Directions

1.Microwave the oil and beeswax slowly just until the beeswax melts, approximately 3 minutes.

2.Add the Vitamin E oil and slowly pour in the room temperature breastmilk while whisking rapidly until it thickens

3.Add essential oils and whisk

4,Pour into shallow jars or lotion tubs. It will continue to thicken as it cools.


 Refrigerate and use for up to 3 months.













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Breast Milk Ice cream

Ingredients

1/2 cup breast milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon sugar
4 cups crushed ice
4 tablespoons salt
1 standard sized coffee can
1 economy sized coffee can
Hand towel or gloves


Directions

1.Combine the breast milk, vanilla and sugar into the standard sized coffee can and mix thoroughly. 

2.Tightly seal the can with its plastic lid and place inside the larger sized coffee can. 

3.Fill that can with the crushed ice, then sprinkle the salt over on top.

4.Now, use your gloves or towel to protect your hands as you roll the can back and forth on the ground, until the ice cream sets. The time required depends on the number of servings in the can.

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Breastmilk Butter

What you need
1 -2 ounce Breast milk
Clean Jar

Directions:

1
In a freshly cleaned jar, preferably sterile, add the breastmilk.
2
Screw the lid on tight and shake furiously until you have butter.

Total Time:5 mins
Prep Time:5 mins
Cook Time:0 mins

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Spring bath

 This week is spring week so we've been doing things with spring and flowers and bugs.
Tonight I did a flower bath for the boys.

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Pom-Pom Caterpillar

So I saw Pom-Poms at the store the other day and I just knew they would be great for the boys to play with. It wasn't till I got home that I came up with just what to do with them tho.

Pom-Pom Caterpillars are so easy to make and cheap too. 

What you will need.

A leaf print out ( Just google till you find one you like.

Pom-Poms 

Glue

Googly eyes

Marker, color pencil, crayon, just something to color with

What to do.

Once you have got the leaf you wanted and printed it out

have the kids color them. Both Eli and Ray used markers.

Then I had the boys choose what pom-poms they wanted to use.

After we got 6 big pom-poms out I put glue on the paper and let the

boys put the pom-poms on top in the order they wanted. After we got the

big pom-poms on we took 4 little ones and made antennas with them. Then 

comes the eyes and mouth.. That's it :) The one Eli and I made we sent to 

Joshua in a care package so he could see it. :)

Sorry I don't remember what site I got mine from.

This is Eli's leaf. 

Yes he tried eating it.

This is Ray :)

He wanted a smile and nose

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Box Painting

We have a Al-Di's near us and that's where we get everything that we don't have coupons for. It's normally a       lot cheaper there. But we always forget to take our reusable bags with us so we seem to always come home with at least 1 box.. I saved this box for the boys to paint and then later on it can be used for different things. So far it has been a table for a restaurant and it's been a check out line for a grocery store. I can't wait to see what else the boys come up with.

I set  up the box with some paint , sponges and a paint brush.

Eli was just starting out.

The end.

i think I'll keep letting them do this.

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Homemade Play dough

So this week we've made some home made play dough for the boys to play with. Much to my surprise everyone including my mom and sister ended up playing with. This was my first time making play dough and I was going to do a double patch to make more colors but I didn't have enough cream of tartar. After I go to the store tomorrow I will  make some more and update this post with the new colors. I will also take pics of each step as I do them and add them to the bottom of the post in order.

What you will need..

1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cream of tartar
Food coloring

Directions

Combine water, flour , oil, salt, cream of tartar, and food coloring in a saucepan and heat until warm

Stir, then knead until smooth. The cream of tartar makes this dough last 6 months or longer, so resist the temptation to omit this ingredient if you don't have it on hand.

Store this dough in an airtight container or a Ziploc freezer bag.

Also Eli (14 months ) only tried to eat this once and after he tasted it he took it out of his month and said yucky so I don't have to worry about him trying to eat it again ( I hope )

After it was cooked I put it on a pizza  pan to cool

After it cooled I made the dough  into 1/4. After that I made them  into  little  balls  and  pushed  a hole into the middle.

Then I dropped the food coloring into the holes.

All closed up.

My mom couldn't wait to see what colors I did and started playing with it to spread the  food  coloring  around.

Neon Pink

Neon Purple 

Neon Green

Neon Blue ( it didn't want to spread evenly like the other but it's super blue )

playcreateexplore also made some scented kinds  Here

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cooked Noodle Sensory Bag

Today we worked on colors and squishy.

Eli loved stepping on these. He also loved to throw them out of the bin and throwing them back into it. 

When he started to get a little bored with it I gave him a old bucket that was once used for cotton candy. He then started stacking the bags on top of each other and throwing the bags into the bucket.

What I used.

noodles ( I got mine form Dollar Tree but you an get them even cheaper with coupons )

food coloring 

plastic bags 

duct tape.

Step to making this awesome bag.

1. Cook the noodles like you would any other time. Make sure to put a little oil in it so they don't get sticky.
2. Put equal amounts of noodles into your bags ( 1 bag for each color )

3. Put the food coloring in.
4  Close and get out as much air as you can

5. Duct tape the tops to keep the bags from opening.

6. Give to the kids to mix the color in :)

What we ended up with.

This is how I duct taped the tops

Sorry for the mess in the back ground. We haven't cleaned up yet from playing today.

Squishy

Putting them into the bucket

Now he's dumping the bucket back out

Sorry for the bad pis it's super hard to get a good pic of Eli (14 months) due to him moving so much.

After all that playing he was ready for a healthy snack

 playcreateexplore did some noodle play also but hers is a little different. If you would like to see what she did  here is the link


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Color Weeks. Blue week

This week is blue week in our house. I got together a cool blue sensory bin for Eli (14month) which I will take a pic of later once he is done breast feeding. We also had a really awesome blue bath tonight and we even went over some shaped I drew on he wall in blue bath paint. Eli even said Circle and Triangle and Blue which sounded like glue haha.

I ran the water then added some blue food coloring. I also added as many blue bath tub  safe toys I could find
within a couple mins.

See the shaped? I was so proud of him for saying the shapes name with me . He even pointed to the circle.

He was rubbing the stuff on the walls.

He was all smiles the whole bath.

It's so hard to get clear pics with this boy. He jut loves to move around

 That's all I have for now but I will keep updating till this week is over...
3/17/2013

Blue Sensory bin

Yummy Blueberry smoothie 

Blue water and outside play sensory bin

Bath tub shaving cream paint 

Blue bath

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Fluffy Stuff

I was on playcreateexplore's blog and I saw this fun looking stuff I wanted to try with the boys but mine didn't turn out like hers. Oh well maybe next time. If you want to see her post click here > playcreateexplore.com

 This is what I ended up with tho. It was still fun to play with and really neat to watch the boys play with it.

Ray(10 years old) got out a plastic knife and fork and was cutting it up.

What you will need ...

CORNSTARCH
SHAVING CREAM
Food coloring if you want

So I didn't keep track of how much I used of each and I think that's where I went wrong but I didn't have alot of cornstarch

I would much rather have everyone go to the website I give you and see what she did because her's is way better then ours I hope to try this again very soon once I get more cornstarch and I will do a update post on it then.

Have a wonderful day everyone









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