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Toddler Racket Ball

Here is a fun and simple idea to keep your toddler entertained.
This activity is fun and mess free!

All you need is a beach ball. (Or any ball that is light and filled with air).

Take a string and tie a knot around the area where you blow up the ball.

Hang it up somewhere.

Give your child a racket and allow them to hit the ball. Older kids love this activity too!

She was holding the bat the right way before I took the picture!

Caution: Watch Out! Pregnant Lady Near!

After laughing my head off at this post from Mayhem & Moxie I was just thinking about some of the weird and not so great moments of my pregnancies that I now find funny…

• “Wow you're huge... Its cute, just like a baby elephant..” (yeah... because ya know, a baby elephant is so much cuter than a normal elephant right?)
  This was coming from another pregnant woman who looked like a penguin but I mean... I do have manners…
  
• My hair brush somehow falls on the floor while I’m using it,
  "Faheem.." (I scream to the other room)
  "Yeah?"
  "Ummm I dropped my brush on the floor..." 
  I can see he is  sort of annoyed that I called him all the way from the other room for this so I tell him how I hate to have to rely on other people and promptly remind him about the story of how I threw out my back in my last pregnancy by bending down (yada yada yada) and I had to get a painful injection in my back and couldn't even go to the bathroom on my own... so this is obviously the easier way out for him ;) "
  
  
• I was craving an ice cream from McDonalds... as I get it and take my first lick it somehow falls.... I begin crying...
  "Here, have mine"
  "I don’t want YOUR ice cream!" I manage to get out in between the tears...
  "Then I'll get you another ice cream babe"
  "But I don't want another ice cream! I want MY ice cream… the one I had first!!!"
  Faheem looks at me and laughs (in a cute way that made me laugh too)
  
  
• I had a few red marks on my body(in my first pregnancy) which I actually thought were scratches for weeks (since I own a cat and all... )
  No wait.. I don't actually own a cat... hmmm wow... they must be scratches of love. ;)
  Wow I've never had that before... this is pretty cool....
  
  
• After realising that the 'scratches' are what a stretch mark looks like I was down and temporarily depressed... Somebody mutilated my body!
  I immediately spent hours researching new techniques to get rid of stretch marks... after coming out empty handed I fiound a lovely post somewhere about how someone says to embrace the marks of love from a pregnancy... a memory I can always physically see...
  (Yay i feel better... no really I do... and every time I don't feel better then
  I remind myself over and over about the marks of love from my kids and how I will always have them with me... FOREVER.. or at least until I find a laser that works without burning off all my skin)
  
  
• In my first pregnancy I counted my stretch marks and it bugged me. In my second pregnancy I wasn't phased by it.
  I didn't count any.
  I couldn't remember which one came when
  I mean... it can't get any worse! (Oh YES it can!!)
  
  
• After my pregnancy I went to get a quotation on the new laser for stretch marks.
  "Wait, did I hear that correctly? You need to put me under a general anaesthetic. Then you burn off the skin and then new skin grows in its place? If I have stretch marks that obviously means my skin does not heal well... how would burning my skin off look better than the stretch marks?!"
  
  
• When I'd eat at my mother in laws house I always wondered why she bothers dishing out food on our side of the table in a separate dishing out bowl... Can't you see that I’m pregnant? Give me the whole bowl...
  It's not fun having to dish out food in my plate a million times while everyone else knows the food in that particular bowl BELONGS to me the pregnant lady.
  If they didn’t realise that the food in that bowl belonged to me then my evil looks directed their way every time they would touch the spoon was a good indication.
  
  
• After I gained 16 kg in my first pregnancy I vowed to watch my weight in my second pregnancy... That went out the window when the nausea and hunger pangs hit. I would do ANYTHING to not feel nauseous which meant eating and snacking throughout the day. Who cares? I’m pregnant and I'm hungry!
  (Yep.. I gained a whopping 22kg's... or at least, that is when I stopped checking the scale.)
  
• Why is it that people think it is ok to call a pregnant woman fat? You wouldn't call a normal woman fat. Do manners fly out the window when you are talking to someone pregnant? And.... "WOW I didn't even recognise you" is the same thing!
  Well... I'll be the last one laughing when I get skinny again (and after 8 months post partum I could say HA Ha HA)

• When I used to get worried that my son had not kicked for a while I'd tell my hubby to put his hand on my stomach and Deen would promptly kick like crazy... I say he was kicking because he was saying,
  "It’s my mommy, get away from her.”
  Faheem says it was because he loves his daddy so much that he was already trying to bond.
  Potato’s potaaaatos… who cares?
  
  
• My husband came home to me with my legs up on my desk sitting at the computer with my stomach fully exposed and my hand all over my stomach...
  "Umm... What are you doing?"
  "I'm watching the waves in my stomach.. It’s so cool! Come see"
  
  

I always wondered something when pregnant. Why don't they have a stall in the woman's bathroom specifically for the battered up bladder of a pregnant woman?
Then I had kids and I definitely think kids should get preference too... I mean... "Mama! Pee's coming out" should really set off some bathroom sirens! Everyone duck!

I’m looking for some laughs today after having had a rough last week… Please leave a comment from a funny pregnant moment

Blogging Station Blog Hop

Since starting the Pro Blogger and SITS Girls challenge a lot of my viewers happen to be fellow bloggers. I think it would be really interesting to see everyone’s magical blogging station where all your inspiration happens and where your posts are produced. What better way to get to know your fellow bloggers and their little quirks.

Here is my computer table where I do all my blogging. I would show you the rest of the study but right now its a mess it’s not relevant ;)

(ok so… I am in desperate need of de cluttering!)

My study is the worst lit room in the house. I’m hoping to fix that soon though!
I’d love to see if you have an organiser board/schedule board, an inspirational picture, something unique to you…

On to the blog hop! Post a picture of your blogging station. I’d love to be inspired by you.

The Best of Fun With Mama 1st Year

Today (Friday the 23rd of July) Fun With Mama turns 1! The year has passed so quickly and I am so excited that I have been able to document so much about our family in this past year. I will be creating a Blurb book of all the past years posts to keep for our own memories.
In celebration of Fun With Mama’s first year I have pulled together this post of our top ten twelve thirteen favorite posts!
If this is your first time visiting Fun With Mama this is the perfect place to start!

Fun With Mama’s Top Ten Twelve Thirteen Posts (in no particular order):

1. Colored Salt Tutorial

2. Create Your Own Stamp (with foam alphabet letters)

3. Puffy Paint

4. Make a Volcano

5. Play dough, Colored Pasta, and Rice Fun! 

6. Elmo Cut and Paste Printable

7. Handprint Plaque

8. Lets Go Fishing Printable

9.Ladybug Cut and Paste Activity

 10. Crawling Knee Pad Tutorial

11. Shaving Cream Painting

12. Bubbles Galore

And here is one I really like… something that keeps me motivated and inspired:

13. Encouragement

Delicious Milk Tart – Anyone?

Milk tarts happen to be one of the most delicious desserts ever and it is not nearly as hard as one would think.It is actually pretty easy! Thanks to the push and the shove from my friend Sameerah I have conquered it! (She also happens to be the most awesome milk tart teacher in the world! She is a woman of technology and often forces me teaches me to cook fun recipes and yummy desserts using black berry messenger.)

Deen loves milk tart and in the cutest way ever he  comes to me and say “Mama, can you make me milk tart with love?”

This recipe makes two milk tarts.

Ingredients List

2 oz margarine (times 2)
sugar
2 eggs
1 heaped tsp baking powder
1 cup of flour
round silver milk tart foil dishes
1/2 a litre of milk
vanilla essence
corn flour
pinch of salt
cinnamon

(Part 1): Dough

2 oz (1/2 of 1/4lb)(=125grams) margarine

¼ cup sugar
1 egg
1 heaped tsp baking powder

Approximately 1 cup flour to make a soft dough. (dough should not stick to your hands).
Separate Dough into 2 parts (This recipe makes 2 milk tarts).

Press flat into a silver container. (covering bottom and sides in an even layer)

 

Bake in oven on 180 Celsius (350 Fahrenheit) until parts of the crust starts to get brownish in color. (Be careful that it doesn’t become too brown)

 

 

Part 2:
On the stove boil 1/2 litre milk with 2 oz margarine.
(When it has boiled it will rise)

Part 3:
In another dish mix:

3 tablespoons sugar
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tablespoons maizena (corn flour)
1 egg

    

Part 4:
When milk boils (part 2) add part 3 to the mix and keep stirring till it becomes medium thick.

Pour milk into crusts.

Sprinkle cinnamon over and put in the fridge for a few hours.

Enjoy!

He Was Caught Purple Handed! Slime Tutorial!

We attempted to make slime today and it proved to be just that…. VERY slimey indeed!!

Materials Needed:

• 1/4- almost half a cup cornstarch(although I did end up using a tiny bit more)
• 1/4 cup glue
• Ziplock bag
• Food Coloring Tempera Paint in your desired color.

• A willing child is a must!

Add the glue and the cornstarch into the ziplock bag.

Add a few drops of food coloring tempera paint
Mix it all together. I then took the mixture to the sink and let out any excess liquid as well as rinsed it out a little bit to get the food coloring as drained as I could.

You should end up with something like the above.
If not, you didn’t follow my directions… or your measuring cups aren’t accurate…ok fine if you did follow my directions then hey im only human… nothing is foolproof! Just mix a little bit more cornstarch in.. (not too much though)

Now let your kids loose… let them enjoy this interesting feeling slimey putty!
Deen literally played with this for a whole hour before deciding he was done. I kept hearing “Wow mama this is cool”, “Mama I love this”, “Mama this is so much fun”, “Mama look what its doing!”, “Mama it looks like chicken!” 

Watching Deen play so eagerly Aaliya was intrigued. She ran over to come see what all the fuss was about… she touched it and then pulled back with that huge expression on her face(in the above picture on the left). It was priceless!

She made sure not to touch it again!

Deen was fascinated! (So was I.)

When we were done the evidence of our activity was clearly in site for all to see.
Deen was caught purple handed!

“Mama, look! My hands are like Barney’s!”

“Wow Deen! That is sooooo cool!”
I wonder how long it will take for Barney’s hands to disappear…

Note to self: Next time, do NOT use food coloring! Use paint!