I didn’t want to leave my little guy out of my blog posting extravaganza so here he is…all packed and ready to go. He’s decided to take Ralph (his stuffed dog) along for the ride. How stinkin’ cute is he?
January 31, 2010
Friday night we had a perfectly done steak with sauteed onions, broccoli with cheese sauce, baked potatoes with a crispy salty crust, salad, beer batter bread, and a thirst quenching Mike’s Hard Lemonade. It was divine especially because we only had to share it with one kid. The two little ones were asleep and the big one was at Grandma’s so that left us to dine with the Walnut. It was superb.
Saturday AM we painted the previously mentioned paper mache balloons. The nuts had a blast and mom and dad even had a little fun. We’re planning to wait for a warmish day to take them outside to shoot them up with the paint gun. Feeling redneck?
We also did a little house cleaning. I boxed up all my maternity clothes to donate to the Pregnancy Resource Center and also put together a bunch of stuff to bring to Jen for her due in August baby. It felt good to do a little decluttering. The Almond was very helpful with the vacuuming.
Saturday afternoon was spent in the kitchen trying out a few recipes from Alton Brown. The Peanut had been wanting to make his Chocolate Mousse for some time and Matt had decided to make the graham crackers. The two mixed together were some sort of divine.
After dinner we relaxed while watching Monsters vs. Aliens. A fun kid movie with enough to keep adults interested. After that the Peanut decided to lose her 2nd tooth of the day. Losing 2 teeth in one day is a pretty cool deal, but, get this…both teeth had brace brackets attached. She had her braces adjusted on Friday and the had moved the wire. My guess is that both teeth had been loose for awhile but were being held in place by the brace wire and bands. Now that they were free they had to come out. No harm done, I guess. Here she is proudly showing off one of her teeth. She reports that the tooth fairly left her 2-$1 coins and a promise to deposit $20 into her savings account. Not too shabby.
January 31, 2010
On Thursday nights I often get home after the kids are in bed. Typically Matt and the nuts might watch a movie or some such but this past week he got crafty again and decided to do a paper mache project. He didn’t take any pictures as he claims that his hands were covered in goo. I’ll let him off the hook this time. The nuts ended up painting their creations on Saturday. Here are the Walnut and the Almond. The Peanut was being camera shy.
January 24, 2010
A late night followed by an early morning is bad enough but add 4 crabby kids and that is a recipe for disaster. The Peanut was at a friends for the weekend so her sass level was pretty high this afternoon. The Walnut stayed over at his cousins’ house last night and he woke up with a runny nose and itchy eyes. The Almond is running a temp and was up once in the night. The Pecan also has a nose that is like a faucet of snot and seems to be trying to cut some new teeth. By 2 o’clock, Matt and I were ready to explode. He took the Walnut and the Almond for a little car ride and they fell asleep before he made it to town. I finally got the Pecan to take a nap around 4 and the Peanut has settled down now that she has no one around to sass at other than me. So, things are calmer now and I expect a quiet night since the Pecan will probably sleep for awhile and since Matt decided to take the boys to his mom’s house to watch the Vikes. I seem to hear the bath calling my name. SWEET!
January 9, 2010
Getting crafty has never been cheaper. Earlier this week it was the Chunky crayon project and for Saturday night entertainment we bring you…
The Hovercraft
Doesn’t that look fun?
January 5, 2010
We got a little crafty today and made some Chunky Crayons. The Peanut wanted to do a little experiment and melt some crayons. We had a huge bucket to go though. She was about to put the crayons into boiling water but I was able to stop her in time. I googled a bit about melting crayons and found an easy recipe. Here is a scrapbook page I did about it.
After dinner we had round #2 with the Walnut and the Almond. They had fun. We tried to use cookie cutters instead of the muffin tin. That did NOT work out so well. Thankfully I had thought to line the pan with some aluminum foil. When it was soft we broke it up and put it into the muffin tins and melted again and ended up with some beautiful multi-colored hockey puck crayons. The kids thought it was pretty neat and I no longer have a giant tub of broken crayons. Win! Win!
September 12, 2009
Matt whipped up a doozy of a breakfast. Popovers and Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Tortilla Wraps. Yummy! That man can really cook. The popovers were light and fluffly, just perfect with a touch of syrup. The tortillas were nice and gooey with cheese. Well Done my dear, well done. After such a hearty feast I decided I better earn my keep. I swept the main floor and moved all the furniture and mopped. I love it when the wooden floor is all nice and shiny clean and then the sun comes streaming in the front window and makes it looks absolutely glorious. I don’t usually take quite so much joy in housework but…I love this darn floor. The rugs are are all in the wash so I suppose I might as well do the entryway as long as I have the mop warmed up. I’m so glad the Pecan takes such great naps. It makes it a bit easier to get these Saturday housekeeping projects done.
In other news the Almond has been wearing underwear all week (a different pair every day, not the same ones!). He has successfully mastered #1 on the toilet, but #2 is a no go so far. EEEWWWW how I detest changing #2 undies. Ah well, it will all be worth it come mid October when Matt takes the Walnut AND the Almond on the train to Seattle.
Happy Saturday!
September 8, 2009
Our first “official” day went well. Here is a scrapbook page I did. It is really 4 pages that I put together to use as my computer background.
August 28, 2009
The Walnut read his first “story” today. I’m teaching him to read using the same book that we used with the Peanut. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a really great book. We just finished Lesson 13 this morning and the story was “See me eat.” Then after you read the story there is a picture for you to discuss. It is so much fun to watch my children enjoy reading. The Walnut was pleased as could be and then since Daddy was still home the Walnut read the story to him too. Delightful!
I’m in the process of getting the rest of their stuff ordered for this school year. I can hardly believe the Walnut is a Kindergartner and the Peanut is a 4th grader. Where does the time go? We purchased quite a few things at the Used Curriculum fair at the MACHE conference in April and now I’ve ordered a few things from other Sonlighter’s. Now I just need to complete my order for all the new things but I save that until last just in case I can get anything else used. Since a lot of our curriculum is regular books it is pretty easy to find stuff used at less than 1/2 the new price. I do so love a bargain.
August 25, 2009
I had a nice post typed about a bad night of working from home and a baby that is not sleeping but IE all of a sudden stopped working and I lost it so instead, enjoy this.
