Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Preschool
We are participating in a preschool coop and have preschool at our house every Wednesday. Today we made these little dinosaur headbands and I just couldn’t resist taking a picture of the kids. Olivia’s smile cracks me up. :)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Fellini's
O Fellini’s pizza restaurant on LaVista, how I love thee. My children love to eat here because there are flat screen TVs playing cartoon network, and because Owen likes the way your name sounds. Nate and I can have an actual conversation when we eat out with our children, we just have to pause and tell our kids to take another bite now and again. I had to snap this with my camera because it was just too funny to watch them crane their little necks to watch the TV which was positioned (obviously) almost directly above our table.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Birthday Girl
Olivia turned 2! I can hardly believe it. She is our darling little girl and we have had a wonderful 2 years so far. We were at Cheryl’s house watching her kids and so we celebrated it there. Cheryl bought her this dress last year for her birthday and she wore it all around the house and loved it. She even kept her little crown on. I couldn’t have been more thrilled. :)
We made her norwegian pancakes for her birthday breakfast and that’s all she wanted to eat all day.
We made some cupcakes for her and sang happy birthday. When it was time for her to blow out the candle, she knew just what to do and wanted to do it again. After a few rounds of “Happy Birthday” singing, we dug into the cupcakes and ice cream. She opened her presents and was delighted. Aunt Sammy made her a doll! Look how cute this is. I am amazed by Sammy’s talents. It was a really fun day for our really fun and sweet girl. We just love our little girl and all the fun she adds to our family. Happy Birthday Olivia!
We made her norwegian pancakes for her birthday breakfast and that’s all she wanted to eat all day.
We made some cupcakes for her and sang happy birthday. When it was time for her to blow out the candle, she knew just what to do and wanted to do it again. After a few rounds of “Happy Birthday” singing, we dug into the cupcakes and ice cream. She opened her presents and was delighted. Aunt Sammy made her a doll! Look how cute this is. I am amazed by Sammy’s talents. It was a really fun day for our really fun and sweet girl. We just love our little girl and all the fun she adds to our family. Happy Birthday Olivia!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Puzeys
We had an adventure this month! Olivia and Owen and I packed up for almost a week and headed up to the Puzeys house to watch the kids while Cheryl and Doug took a trip to Washington. We had a blast. It was a LOT of work wrangling six kids on my own, but here are some of the trip highlights:
While doing homework, someone tooted and each kid blamed the kid younger than him. Ha ha. It was Owen.
Zac read Owen the funnies in the Sunday paper and then had to explain every part of the humor to him. Each time he would explain it and say, “get it?” Owen would say, “No.” So cute to hear Zac try to explain the jokes to Owen.
The kids played together REALLY well and got along wonderfully (tender mercy). :)
Olivia is not a champ at finishing her dinner, since it takes her a lot longer than anyone else. Kate fed Olivia after she was done and she used all the best tactics: airplane, choo-choo train and car. All at Olivia’s very specific requests.
We were able to play outside in the Puzey’s super fun backyard! When we got home Owen told me he wants a new house (not an old one), with stairs, and a playhouse in the back yard. Those are my marching orders from my 4 year old. :) Working on it.
Morgan and Carter were amazingly helpful and always pitched in to help me work.
Zac wanted to play tic-tac-toe with Olivia during church and drew the little board. Then he told Olivia that she is X and to put an X wherever she wanted. She stared. He then handed her the pen and she stared. Then he saw he needed to lay some groundwork for her and wrote out the entire alphabet (upper and lower case) and showed her each letter and stopped at O and X for emphasis. Then he drew some Xs and Os with dashed lines for her to trace the letters. He worked so hard on that game of tic-tac-toe. It was so cute.
Morgan and her friend doing their hair and make up Lady GaGa style.
While doing homework, someone tooted and each kid blamed the kid younger than him. Ha ha. It was Owen.
Zac read Owen the funnies in the Sunday paper and then had to explain every part of the humor to him. Each time he would explain it and say, “get it?” Owen would say, “No.” So cute to hear Zac try to explain the jokes to Owen.
The kids played together REALLY well and got along wonderfully (tender mercy). :)
Olivia is not a champ at finishing her dinner, since it takes her a lot longer than anyone else. Kate fed Olivia after she was done and she used all the best tactics: airplane, choo-choo train and car. All at Olivia’s very specific requests.
We were able to play outside in the Puzey’s super fun backyard! When we got home Owen told me he wants a new house (not an old one), with stairs, and a playhouse in the back yard. Those are my marching orders from my 4 year old. :) Working on it.
Morgan and Carter were amazingly helpful and always pitched in to help me work.
Zac wanted to play tic-tac-toe with Olivia during church and drew the little board. Then he told Olivia that she is X and to put an X wherever she wanted. She stared. He then handed her the pen and she stared. Then he saw he needed to lay some groundwork for her and wrote out the entire alphabet (upper and lower case) and showed her each letter and stopped at O and X for emphasis. Then he drew some Xs and Os with dashed lines for her to trace the letters. He worked so hard on that game of tic-tac-toe. It was so cute.
Morgan and her friend doing their hair and make up Lady GaGa style.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Making Cookies
I have an endless amount of help in the kitchen at all times by my two kids. They love being in the kitchen with me and helping me, especially when I am making cookies. We decided to make some cookies the other day and before I can even pull out the chocolate chips, I had two kids pushing bar stools up to the counter and climbing on. I had to take a quick picture of them helping me out, and to boot, I needed to take a picture of them in their matching T shirts. I don’t dress them alike often, but Nate bought them these threadless T shirts and they both wanted to wear them today. Why not? It makes for a cute picture and a fun memory.
The cookies turned out great by the way. Here is what we made:
Chocolate Mint Cookies
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
sugar crystals for rolling the cookies
1 bag york pieces
1/2 bag ghirardelli dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375. Mix dry ingredients and set aside. Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Chill for about one hour (I often opt out of this step). Make into 1 inch balls, and roll in sugar crystals. Bake for 8 minutes.
The cookies turned out great by the way. Here is what we made:
Chocolate Mint Cookies
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
sugar crystals for rolling the cookies
1 bag york pieces
1/2 bag ghirardelli dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375. Mix dry ingredients and set aside. Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Chill for about one hour (I often opt out of this step). Make into 1 inch balls, and roll in sugar crystals. Bake for 8 minutes.
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