So I know...I've been slacking on keeping up with what the kids and I have been doing. Seems like we are so busy. Amazing how busy you are once you don't work! We had a good week last week. The highlight being St. Pat's day. Alexis and I made Shamrock cookies, then both kids "helped" me frost and put sprinkles on them. We even set some aside for Uncle Craig since he asked last time we made cookies to make some for him. :)
On Monday Cole and I made our Leprechaun trap. We got the idea out of my Family Fun magazine. Cole cut out all the pieces and we put it together. There was slits in the top, covered with fake gold to trick the Leprechaun up there...then he would fall through. We made a nice little ladder for him to get up to the top. Tuesday night, wouldn't you know that Leprechaun came and boy did he make a mess! He put the dolls and animals on their heads, left DVD's and toys all over the floor. He even got out the Duplos to make a staircase from the floor up to the table. He ate the cookie we left him...and made a big mess. He also did fall into our trap, but cut a door to get out. Cole told me he did it with his sharp fingernail. So we were not able to get his "Gold of Pot" (as Cole says). Better luck next year. We did some shopping on Wednesday and got some GREAT deals on stuff for next season. Including a beautiful Christmas dress for Alexis that was $68 marked down to 10! Though, who knows if she'll grow before next year. hehe.
Alexis also got a new trike. It's smaller than all of our other bikes/trikes so she can reach the pedals. Being so little sometimes makes it hard to do all the stuff your big brother can do. But she keeps trying.
Eric got home after the kids were in bed on Friday, and they were SO excited to see him on Saturday morning...at 6:30 a.m. of course! This weekend we started installing our in-ceiling speakers and the system to run that. We completed the living room and dining room so far. Now we have to wait for more speakers to show up. Eric has the controls in both rooms working, and all the other techie stuff downstairs working so we can listen to music whenever we want. The kids thought it was crazy/funny to see us drilling holes in the ceiling.
Today we headed out to Linda's for breakfast. Alexis I think had her whole donut gone before Eric hardly had a chance to sit down. Guess she was hungry.
Later in the afternoon Cole said he wanted to have Sugar for dinner. Then he says "Nooo...sugar makes you fat, like dad". OUCH! Poor Eric. Cole did tell him that he is also a little bit fat, then puffs out his belly since he wants to be like dad. It's pretty funny.
Two quick layouts. The top one is from a nice template...makes it go a bit faster.
The bottom one is of Cole and his discovery of the Leprechaun's mess!