5. Read 101 books (101/101).

Done! And enjoyed every minute of it! :)

#35 Go to a wine tasting, and #50 Date night

This weekend, Liam spent the night at his grandparents' house, and Bill and I took the chance to go out. We drove up to the Rock of Ages Winery for a wine tasting. We bought 3 bottles of wine. Ironically, the ones I liked best were the cheapest, hopefully buying more than 1 bottle makes it still count! :)

We then stopped in Durham on the way home for some tapas at Cuban Revolution. The food was TERRIBLE. Yuck. How I wish we had a Bongo's Cuban Cafe up here. Anyway, it was still nice to get out for a munchkin free date night.

19. Complete 30 new arts & crafts projects with Liam (12/30).

So Liam and I have been busy trying out a few arts and crafts projects this summer. Some have come out well, some not so much.

Here we tried painting with cookie cutters (something he'd done at school). It came out okay, nothing special. Liam chose to use his dino cookie cutters:




Here we tried another variation of a project Liam had done at school. We made a boat. We tried first with a milk jug, but it was a fail, so we tried again with a juice carton. It was the perfect shape for a boat:


We wrapped it in foil, and gave it a sail.


And tried it out in the bath tub (of course). The sail, as I feared, got a little heavy and fell over, but the boat was a lot of good bath tub fun!


After we got home from the beach last month, we made hand print octopuses (octupi?) and accessorized with googly eyes. This one was fun, and I thought they came out super cute!




Finally, we tried some homemade play dough. We didn't have any cream of tartar, so we just used the old school flour/salt/water recipe. Liam enjoyed mixing.


He was pleased with the results, but the play dough was pretty gooey.


We decided it would be better played with inside plastic bags.


Bill was able to firm up the green with some extra flour, and Liam made this play dough train:

36. Go to the movies 5 times (6/5).

Liam and I have been to the movies 3 times in the past month! Regal Cinemas has a summer special for kids movies on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for only $1 each. Liam has done fantastic sitting in the theater, and we have been enjoying a new way to beat some of the summer heat. We've seen:


Barnyard - just okay. I thought it was a little violent, and I couldn't get past the male cows with udders. For real?


Despicable Me - this was cute, and Liam really enjoyed it too.


The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggie Tales Movie. We've never watched veggie tales before. It was okay. The plot was cute, but it was something that would have been better as a half hour show and not a 1.5 hour movie, IMO.

I think we are going to catch a couple more movies this summer too!

June 2011 Progress

Completed in June: 2/101
Current Total: 46/101

5. Read 101 books (98/101).
I read 3 books this month, bringing my total to 98.