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Happy Birthday, Oma!

It's (Levi's and Owen's) Oma's birthday today!  (For those of you unfamiliar with the term, "oma" is German for "grandma."  I can never remember precisely why my in-laws go by Oma and Opa, but it does make life easier when there aren't two people with the same name.)

Levi made a card for Oma, as he did for Grandma, but this time all the credit for the idea goes to Katey from Having Fun at Home!  She pinned this idea for using toddler scribbles as the foundation for cards, and I thought it was perfect.  I must confess that I encouraged -- not forced, but definitely encouraged ;) -- Levi to use some colors other than black for Oma's card.  I gave him full control over the stickers, though, and even backed down when he protested because I moved some stickers off of her name (which I wrote lightly in pencil and he traced).  I tell you what, that boy wants things the way he wants them!

 Yay for fine motor skills!

(This was before he put stickers on her name.)

After he colored the front of the card, I cut some balloons out of red textured cardstock and glued the white paper inside.  Aside from my lopsided balloons, it turned out pretty cute, I think:


We'll give this to Oma at dinner tonight, along with my current favorite CD: Mark Miller's All For Love's Sake.  Oma LOVES to listen to music, so we almost always get her CDs!  (Easy gift-giving: gotta love it.)

And, because it always amuses me to show you what Owen is doing while Levi does projects . . . 

Climbing in and out of a toy box.  Such fun!

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