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Little Pretend Passports

Some deals are too good not to share... especially with those of you who have kids between the ages of 5-10. Every week, we spend some time reading a book in one of the FIAR volumes. Whether it's a US state or a different country, we use our pretend passports every week. We even use it along with Little Passports . They do have their own passport, which includes a new sticker stamp for the country of th at months shipment. However, Little Passports comes with only one passport and I have three kids that want their own passport. So I decided to make our own passports to use along with FIAR and Little Passports . For each country or state we "visit" in our FIAR studies, we stamp our passport. We glue down a flag of the country or state and a passport stamp with the date we traveled to that country. I highly recommend purchasing card stock for the cover Wausau Paper Index Card Stock Unfortunately my 2 year old got a hold of them and wrote all over them... so I w

My Son's First Tooth Fairy Experience

So my son's tooth fell out yesterday! I first noticed his crooked loose tooth about a week and a half ago and I was like such a kid about it! I jumped up and down and it was only till then that my son was just as excited. So fast forward to yesterday, he was eating and he ran to me with his tooth in his hand! He almost swallowed it... luckily it fell in between his gums and bottom lip. It was the cutest little tooth I ever seen. Right before we went to bed, I sewed a small felt pocket into his pillow and placed the tooth in a small tooth shaped container we received at a party a few years ago. He fell asleep and I knew being the wild sleeper he is, that dollar bill would fall under the bed. Yesterday night, after he fell asleep, my husband and I started watching a movie. While watching, I made a quick tooth fairy pouch to put a dollar bill in and a small note. It didn't take too long. I used embroidery floss and a large needle. I didn't have any velcro on me, so I sewed a b