Reed was being a goofball before bed and I got some fun photos of him. He normally gives me a cheesy smile for the camera, but these are a bit more genuine.
Showing off the boat he made at Sunday School.
And the sister was finally ready for bed!
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Sugar Cookies (Day 21)
The bad part about blogging a photo every day is that you realize when your kid wears the same shirt two days in a row. But apparently Aaron washed it, so we’re all good.
Today was a fun day. We went to the bank this morning and got some papers notarized. Hopefully the last stuff we’ll need to get notarized for awhile, except for some paperwork to leave with Aaron’s family while we are out of the country. Hopefully the last adoption-related paperwork. Yay for that!
Danae and Kyle came over for dinner tonight and Danae brought sugar cookie dough. The plan was to roll out the dough and cut them out with cookie cutters. That didn’t go so well, so we just made them into little circles.
Trying to scoop them out.
Decorating cookies is hard work… you need to focus.
It was a lot of fun and we have a lot of colorful, yummy cookies to show for it. Thanks, Danae and Kyle!
Boring (Days 19 & 20)
The last couple of days have been mostly around the house, just hanging out. It is COLD here. Well, 30 degrees feels really cold after 65. But, the high for Sunday is 51.
I took these pictures yesterday morning when I first went into their room to get them out of bed. Lena was climbing on top of Reed and clearly thought that she was in trouble! I brought the camera in, because I knew she was up to some kind of mischief. At first, I heard “WEEEEEEEED! WEEEEED!” And then I heard “Wooo woo woo woo woo woo!”
Yeah, Lena, of course you are sleeping.
This is for Aunt Rachel! They love doing these little puzzles.
This is my picture for the day… Lena eating dinner. Sometimes I feel like all we do is stand around wishing she’d move faster. Tonight was and hour and a half for dinner… because she took a half hour potty break in the middle of it. We’ve learned to just let her take her time, because asking her to speed things up just usually ends in frustration and tears all around.
Oops (Project 365- Days 16, 17 & 18)
I’m sorry I haven’t posted. I had a bunch of Etsy orders to fill, but I am all caught up now. I did remember to take pictures, though.
But, I didn’t take this one. Danae was off work for MLK day on Monday and we went for a walk together. Reed is playing an instrument here. As always, we enjoyed her company. And I was grateful for the literal hand (or back) carrying Reed back to the car.
Danae gave them these cute little placemats. They love them. They are super cute. Reed’s is cats and dogs and Lena’s is matryoshka dolls. I can finally spell matryoshka, without google’s help. Yay, me!
What can a year of being home do?
12/26/10, 1/18/11.
Do you see how much they’ve grown?!? How much happier and healthier they look?
Looking at that, and knowing my kids, I think we’re going to have two big kids and one little squirt. Reed and “Helen” both have a larger bone structure– huge hands and feet. Miss Lena is so tiny, all around tiny. She and “Helen” are actually the same height right now, but “Helen” has weighs 5lbs (18%!) more. And “Helen’s” medical needs explain why her growth has been a bit stunted in the past.
When I walked in to take those photos, they were goofing off. I actually thought Lena was hurt or sick, because she was quietly curled up in Reed’s bed, blankets and everything. Until I saw this face…
Laughing hard… she melts me.
I don’t think Lena is feeling too great today. So, when we went out for a quick walk, I gave her the choice, of carrier or walking. She picked the carrier. I wasn’t sure how this would work for us with layers on, but it actually worked very well. It wasn’t necessarily the most comfortable way to wear the carrier, but I would do it again and could do it for a long walk. Lena just cuddled up to me. I asked her if she was sleeping and she said “YUP!”
Here is the goofball, “whistling.”
Our Weekend (Project 365- Day 14 & 15)
Project 365 is turning my blog into a diary of sorts. I have found that I am taking way more photos throughout the day, to make sure that I have one with a semi-interesting story behind it to share with you. So, I am going to do a little photo dump of the last few days.
This picture is actually from Friday night, but it was so funny that I have to share. I made fajitas in the crockpot. I am a vegetarian, so I am obviously not going to eat beef and chicken fajitas. Well, the kids each got a fajita, ate it, saw that I had a bowl of cherrios and decided that they wanted one too. I gave them new spoons with their cherrios, because the idea of mixing fajitas and cherrios sounds downright disgusting to me. Lena decided to use BOTH spoons to eat her cherrios. She may have even tried to put both spoons in her mouth at once!
Saturday was a low-key day. I had a lot that I needed to get done around the house and Aaron had to work. So, the kids got to watch a couple of movies. I thought this moment was so cute… one of our dogs climbed up on the couch between the kids. Reed moved over so he was practically laying on her. This boy loves dogs a lot and he is developing a healthy knowledge of how to act around dogs. He has come so far.
This was our dinner on Saturday night. The porkchops are nothing special… everyone said they were good, but the recipe was not extraordinary. But, the casserole dishes. Wow! I made Broccoli Quinoa casserole for the first time earlier in the week and HAD to make it again. For the record, all of the blue pan got eaten and the other pan was dipped into, as well. That is a lot for two grown-ups and two preschoolers to eat! It is pretty healthy and it’s easy to cook extra broccoli and quinoa to make it a couple of times, which is what I did. This is a double batch, because it is really yummy the next day, too.
This happened after dinner. I think he’s being a ninja soldier? Something like that.
I had a moment of parenting genius last well. We got home from somewhere?… maybe the day we lost our key, and Reed told me he was hungry. It was late, I couldn’t come up with something easy to eat, so I asked him what he wanted. We opened up the fridge together. No ideas. Then I had a moment of parenting genius… “Who wants pizza roll-ups?!” We had leftover pizza sauce, ground beef and sausage mix we use on pizza, mozzarella cheese and a ton of tortillas. I just dumped everything in a tortilla together, folded it like a burrito and microwaved it for a minute and a half. Lena ate two, Reed ate 3. Actually, these are all my kids have eaten for lunch every day since. Reed eats 2-3. Lena eats 1-2. They are fantastic because they’re easy to make and are as healthy or unhealthy as you want them to be. Don’t tell me someone else already invented them… I don’t care.
We had dinner with Danae and Kyle tonight. It is always a great time with them. My kids love both of them. Kyle was playing hide and seek with them, and Reed ran up to Danae and asked her “Where’s your Aaron?” Then, a couple minutes later, he said “where’s your dad?”
Kyle plays with Reed and Lena… not just tolerates them or entertains them for a minute, but actually spends time with them. I think Kyle and Danae are going to be really awesome parents.
Of course, I should acknowledge that my own husband is a rockstar and took the kids out to a playground and geocaching for 5 hours today. And took the dogs out for a walk. And ran to the grocery store twice. And helped set-up/tear down for church. Love that man! Just had to make sure he didn’t feel left out.
After dinner, we played Monopoly Deal. I am grateful for friends who tolerate me when I feel the need to tell them that “Reading” in “Reading Railroad” is pronounced like “Redding”. I only know this because I grew up going to the outlet malls in Reading, Pennsylvania.
So, these cookies. You see how the one looks like a normal CCC, and the other looks like baby poop? I made regular chocolate chip cookies and mint chocolate chip cookies. Don’t make mint CCCs. Just don’t. Unless you want to gain weight. They are SO good. They taste like thin mints with the texture of chocolate chip cookies. I saw this recipe on pinterest, but dough from a tube isn’t really my thing. So, instead, I took my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe(I use this one halved) and add 1/4tsp mint extract and substitute half of the chocolate chips for mint chips. Mint chips can be a bit of a pain to find, but I made my husband go to Walmart. You can see if your Walmart has them on Walmart.com, before you make the trip. I also added green food coloring, thinking it would add to the novelty of the mint chocolate chip cookies, but I wouldn’t recommend that!
a moose in moscow 