VOLCANO

Tonight for dinner we tried something new and made these Cheesy Volcano Meatballs that I found on the Kraft Foods website. They were fun for the kids to make and they loved eating them too. We didn't eat ours in a bun like on the site but made spaghetti and meatballs out of them.
*recipe is at the link*

Rodeo Day at Preschool

They have been talking about Rodeo this week at Evan's preschool. Tuesday was R day, you know R for Rodeo and they brought in some little chicks and a goat for them to pet. Today they had a cowboy day and wore their cowboy hats and ate a cowboy lunch (you know hot dogs and pretzels) and read a cowboy story (something about an armadillo is what I got from him). He had a great time, he made a cowbell and pasted in the correct spot on his cow and got a sheriff's badge for sitting nicely during story time. He loves going to school.

Here is a picture I snapped of him before school this morning. He looked so cute!!
And yes we are wearing shorts here, it was 90 today!!

((in other news, Ian had his first practice of the soccer season but I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off and totally forgot my camera. look for pictures next practice.))

If you couldn't tell...

HE'S NOT TIRED.  NOT AT ALL.

(think all that being a big boy and having lunch at school with big brother and then playing at recess with big brother and his friends didn't make him tired at all)

We've been sick

Sorry for not posting much lately.  We have been hit with the bug and been fighting off illnesses.  both of the boys are fighting ear infections but I think they are getting much better.  Ian actually came bounding out of his room this morning saying "MOM I can hear out of both of my ears!"  And Evan's cough is almost completely gone.  Mine too, both of us still cough a little if we get to running around too much but we are all pretty much on the mend.

The big tell will be tomorrow at swimming lessons, we will see if Evan is better and will actually go into the water without screaming bloody murder.

So anyways, sorry we haven't done anything exciting around here lately, just been treading water and trying to stay afloat!

Marvin the Loofa King

You know how when kids talk sometimes you have no clue what they are talking about and they just keep saying the same thing over and over, louder and louder like that will actually make you understand faster?

Well last night at dinner (which we had out at a little mexican restaurant not at home mind you) Ian was telling us a story about Marvin the Loofa King.  At least that is what dHubby and I kept hearing.  We kept asking him WHO, WHAT?  Is that on a cartoon?  And he kept saying it "You know Marvin the Loofa King".  Still no clue, I am racking my brain of all the cartoon characters, book characters, people in his school and can't think of anything that would resemble this.

Finally Ian says "Come on MOM remember we had a day named after him?"

And I say "Do you mean Martin Luther King?"

Ian, "Yeah, Marvin Loofa King"

OH thank goodness, we finally figured it out.  Now to get him some medicine to get his nose unstuffed up so he can talk!!!

We had this whole conversation because his placemat was all about the presidents and he was telling about what he had learned about Presidents Day and that just (naturally in the mind of a 6 year old) led to talking about all days that were special and a day off from school.

Class Picture 2008/2009

Ian's class picture.  Doesn't he look super sad about something?  Or maybe he is just practicing his military smile.

My Valentine

This is the Valentine that Ian wrote for me by himself at school.  It says:

Dear Mom, I would buy you a ring and help you cook.  Happy Valentine's Day.  Love, Ian

I couldn't as for a better gift.

Force and Motion

So most kids are bringing home fun books to read from the library each week that have a plot and fun characters that get in trouble and figure it all out at the end. My kid, not so much... This is the book that he brought home this week from the library. Let me just tell you we pulled it out of his book bag and it brought back so many bad memories of college physics classes that I almost couldn't open it.

So tonight we are tackling some Dr Suess books from upstairs. Maybe tomorrow while he is at school I will check out the Force and Motion book and see if it will throw me into a panic attack. Heck maybe it will answer some questions that I have had for a long time!! And maybe it means we will have another engineer in the family. :)

Sunday Scraps

Just a couple of layouts that I did today while the boys played with Darren in the garage.  This first one is based on an ad challenge at ScrapAttack.  I am not wild about the stamping but it is done.

This second one is a challenge over at ScrapAttack for their {SAS}sy Member Fun Month.  The challenge was to use old supplies.  I chose old PP (Around the Block pink paper on the left), eyelets, tab, Making Memories rub ons.  This layout also is for this week's Color Combos Galore challenge.  I wasn't wild about having to use pink because pink is a hard color for me to use.  This layout looks a lot better in person than it does in the scan, those letters are cut out with my Quickutz from this cool Making Memories glitter paper and they didn't scan well at all.

Happy Valentine's Day

Let the Valentine's Day partying begin!!  Evan has his party today with his preschool and Ian's party is tomorrow with his 1st grade class.  I (with the help of the boys) made all these big tissue paper flowers for their teachers.  I hope they like them.  We gave a bouquet to their swimming instructor yesterday and she acted so surprised like no one had ever given her flowers before.  It was the kind of reaction that totally makes it worth giving!!  Plus she was also quite happy about the card because she loves Krispy Kreme donuts as much as the rest of us.  The boys wanted to give Krispy Kreme donut valentines (I took one for the team and bought 3 dozen donuts last weekend so we would have enough valentines for all their friends).

HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO EVERYONE!!!

Messy Eater

I've been talking about Evan a lot lately since he started school and stuff but I didn't want to play favorites so I had to take a picture of Ian this morning after breakfast.  Now first off let me say, I am VERY lucky.  My kids will eat almost everything, they aren't picky eaters.  BUT normally when they are done it looks like bears have been feeding.  They are very messy eaters.  Not just crumbs on the table but they normally need a shirt change (because you know shirts are just as good as napkins) and faces are covered in whatever they were eating.  This morning it was Krispy Kreme strawberry filled donuts.

At least he cleans up nicely!!