Snow Day!

This was our first and probably only snow of the year! School was canceled and we had some fun! All 3 kids loved it. Mickey went snowboarding, Eva ate every bit of snow that she could and Stella learned the word 'cold' after taking off her mittens to touch the snow!

Play with your what?!

So, I hear Eva laughing hysterically up in her room and telling Todd that he is so silly. The conversation goes something like this...

E: Daddy, you are so silly
T: Why?
E: Yesterday, you told me to play with my butt!
T: (offended) What?
E: Yesterday, when I was leaving for soccer practice, you told me to play with my butt!
T: (embarrassed) No! That's not what I said at all...I said, go kick some butt!

Now it makes sense...we were leaving for practice and Todd told Eva to kick some butt. She gave him the strangest look and I told him that I didn't think it was the wisest thing to tell a 3yr old. Eva and I chatted about it some in the car, because of course, I didn't want her to take it literally! She seemed to understand, but after today's conversation...I'm not sure she quite got it ;)

Quick thinker!

So, this morning I decided to quickly do something on my computer when Eva runs into the office to tell me that Stella has spilled my coffee. Whoops...I left out a coffee cup about 3/4 full. I knew it wasn't hot, so I wasn't too concerned about anyone being hurt. So I ran out of the office and into the great room to see Stella swinging the cup back and forth. To my surprise, there wasn't much coffee on the floor, but I grabbed a towel out of the laundry basket and started to clean it up.

I am on my hands and knees trying to clean up the small puddle of coffee and mumbling to myself about how this wasn't my brightest moment and Eva says something like 'boy mommy, that was stup.' So, of course, I asked her to repeat what she said. She told me that she had said 'stup.' I started to lecture her about how we don't say that word in our house and how it's not nice when she replied, "mommy, I was going to say stupendous!"

What do you say to that?!

A quote...

Scenario: I am getting ready to clean up Stella's books and I ask Eva to help me...

Eva: Why? I didn't make this mess.
Me: You know how sometimes you make a mess and I clean it up for you even though I didn't make the mess?
Eva: Yes
Me: Well, it's kind of like that. We need to help each other out.
Eva: "Stella, why are you doing this to my life!?"

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eva and I had fun making our turkey last night! She ate so many berries while adding them to the skewers, I was almost shocked that she wanted some for dessert!
(honey dew melon body, assorted berries on skewers for tail feathers, bosc pear head, raisin eyes, cheese beak, red pepper feathers, feet, and snood)



We made these turkeys while Daddy was cooking the real turkey!
(Newman's Own cookies, candy corn tail feathers and beak, banana head, and chocolate chip eyes)



The kids assembled and then ate these while the grown ups were drinking a little wine and socializing during our pre-Thanksgiving holiday!
(wheat bread cut into squares and a circle for the head, veggie cream cheese for filling and 'glue', peas for eyes, cheese for the beak and red pepper slices for the tail feathers)

Stella's 1st birthday!

Ok, I'm convinced that I can't shoot my own parties while hosting...it just doesn't work! I tried to capture the moments and am at least happy with the cake shots...but I didn't do the cake or the decor justice! I have lots of photos of Stelly's friends too, I just couldn't get everything posted in time for Thanksgiving. Anyway, here are a few of them that I took...and thankfully, I had a friend taking photos as well, so someday I'll get to those and post some of them too!