Helping in the Kitchen

We decided we absolutely needed some banana muffins.

Jil has the very best recipe for these things, just ask anyone in my house.

Smalls was all about helping me out. She is the greatest kitchen helper a mom could ask for.

She is sure to taste test any and everything for you.

I think we have some good muffins coming our way!

She did this until the bowl was completely clean, then she proceeded to put it away proclaiming that, "Aubrey clean it."

On a side note. Smalls is into puppies right now, she will carry as many of our stuffed animal puppies as she can all through the house, to the store, to the park, to wherever happily singing, "I looooove puppies." Over and over again.

I had to make her a puppy hair clip, and she has named him...get ready for this...

Hair Puppy.

I get the giggles every time she asks for him.

As always thank you, for your help in the kitchen, Smalls.

The end.

creativity

So, it's that time of year.

Everyone sort of has some cabin fever, we're trying to find things to do inside the house. My kids are just about sick of crayons and coloring. We've moved onto blocks, and buildings and castles, things of that nature.

I really do need to post pictures of their pillow forts, but until then, here's this beautiful castle created entirely by Tink.

A castle, for who you might ask.

Well, according to Tink, it is for a ladybug. Look at the attention to detail, the "padded" drawbridge, and the guard rail guaranteed to keep out any leakage from the moat. The ladybug resides inside the toilet paper, the detangler acts as the watchtower in case of an attack.

Tink has an influx of creativity when I brush out her hair. I think those hairs are attached immediately to her brain.

She is amazing.

Valentine's Day

Getting ready for Valentine's Day is a nostalgic thing. We made a whole bunch of foam valentine's for Grammy, Nana, and Grampa.

Tink discovered a way to wear them. She looks like a little Yosemite Sam.

It was really fun doing all the valentine's for Tink and Kermit's classes. We glued a Hershey Kiss to each of the notes, and the next day, Smalls helped herself to some chocolate. That didn't go over so well...but we fixed it.

We had a weekend visit from Nana, something we always love.

She brought us Mickey Mouse lollipops! Smalls was in 7th Heaven! She still is actually, as she can't eat that whole thing, so we're eating a little at a time. She has a designated plate for it and everything. She has a little bit every day, and is quite happy with that.

Tink got a long-distance valentine from her friend Madelyn! It was a beautiful blue and yellow necklace. She was so excited to get her valentine IN THE MAIL! Those are always so fun! Thank you Grammy and Nana and Grandpa and Madelyn for the "mail" valentines.

She is such a supermodel. She put her necklace on to wear to dinner that night. She later discovered that her necklace was not just a necklace...get ready for this, those big beads....are really GUMBALLS!!! Can you believe that? How cute is that? The necklace didn't last too much longer after that.

We went to dinner with our good friends the Edwards, they are the nicest people. We went to the Brick Oven Bistro downtown, and it was so yummy. Thank you so much! We had a great time, and I didn't have to cook dinner!

Rambo got me these earrings for Valentine's Day, aren't they pretty?

I really think they're beautiful, but I have no place to wear them, so I took this picture, and took them back.

Thank you honey, it's just that those suckers belong on a pageant queen, and the only thing I'm queen of is the whole laundry kingdom, and my subjects don't care what's dangling from my ears.

Valentine's Day was fun, thank you Dan and Diane for taking us to dinner!

Thank you Nana and Grandpa for the shoes and all the candy and ladybugs!

And thank you Grammy for the Legos and the cutest little Boyd's Bears ever!

We heart all of you!!!

I live with Nerds.

Okay, picture it, it's Superbowl Sunday at my house. I have gone and bought yummy stuff for yummy sandwiches, I have made a big veggie tray among other yummy things to eat, we have a whole tin of popcorn (still have a ton left) compliments of Nana and Grandpa-by the way, thank you very much for that it is yummy.

Game time.

Hated the National Anthem.

Look at all the celebrities in their super seats.

Flip a big shiny coin.

It's on.

The first touchdown by Green Bay and we're all cheering, and acting the way a family should during the Superbowl, especially since we were excited about the Packers.

Only a few minutes after the first touchdown, Kermit asks, "Dad, can I play Field Runners?"

Dad: "Sure."

Kermit is immersed in a stinky old IPad game (fart noise).

Then Rambo falls asleep!!!

Not just a light doze either, a big fat bulldozing sleep. Sleepy enough for Tink to come and decorate him.

(There's our big tin of popcorn.)

Serves him right.

Well done Tink, well done.

Smalls, you just sit there and try to look cute okay?

I enjoyed the game, and for some reason, every time GB did good, all I did was giggle. What a girl! It was fun though, even though....I live with nerds.

The end.

You're 2!

Oh Smalls! I can't believe how the time has flown, you are already 2 years old and going strong!

We had such a good time for her birthday, Nana and Grampa came up to visit us, and she's always happy about that. We went to Bounce-one of her favorite places, and just had a good weekend with our brand new 2 year old.

I love this picture, she's running through the gladiator thing, there are giant boxing gloves and big whomping bopper sticks (I have no idea what they're called). She didn't do much fighting, but she did make it hard for people who wanted to.

She's the birthday girl, she can do what she wants!

Just the cutes 2 year old bum you've ever seen.

Kermit loves a good toddler party. Seriously, he had fun, he will tell you that he didn't...but come on, look at that face.

And Tink's turn, this girl was a sweaty mess by the time we left. We love Bounce.

Now our turn. I love this girl. I want to freeze her in time, yep, that's right, she is 2 and I want her to stay like that. I don't think they're TRULY terrible until they are 3, and even then, it's only about 50% of the time.

I love this little girl and her little-ness is slipping past. I can't talk about it, it makes my tummy feel all weird and then I think about crying, and I do not want to do that this early in the morning!

Happy Birthday baby girl

(she will always be the baby no matter how old she is y'know.)

Testing...

So, it's been a while, I'm going to try to start this up again. I say this as all 3 of my children are descending upon me this moment. Smalls wants to go back to the picture, Kermit wants me to play Plants vs. Zombies for him, and Tink wants another cupcake...all at once...I'm good, but I'm not that good. That's right, I know my limits.
Anyway, after a few technical snags and some very interesting holidays, I'm trying to climb back into blogging.
Hopefully, we're back in business!

The Fight

So usually, we all get along great over here, but today there was an interesting fight while Kermit and Tink were cleaning up the buddies.

Tink picked up Pluto...

Kermit: "You know that's mine right?"

Tink: "No, you gave him to me remember?" (very whiney)

Kermit: "Yeah, but I miss him, I got him when I was 3."

Tink: "But I really love him." (starting to panic)

Kermit: "Yeah, but I got him when I was THUREE! That was before Mickey Mouse was even a show."

Kermit is old.

Don't worry, Tink's okay too.