Our Forever Family: March 2014

Friday, March 21, 2014

Family Game Night

We played Carmen Sandiego.

I love it that the boys are getting a little better at reading a map, learning how to locate things.

In the end, we found the V.I.L.E. henchman - and all of our friends that have moved away. We made them find all the states and towns on the map. Even for the friends that are getting ready to move...because apparently we like putting salt in our wounds.

The boys kept asking why they all moved so far.

Why indeed?

After game night, we had chocolate chip cookies. Three made them.

He had a traumatic experience with an oven a few years ago and refused to go near an oven since then. Until game night. I made him, against his wishes, pull the pan out. (He had conned his little brother into putting it in the oven because I wouldn't.)

Well...what do you know?

After much whining and moaning, he pulled the cookie sheet out just fine. Then spent the rest of the night talking about how easy it was to pull the pan out.

Crisis averted. And that is one more kid back in the saddle. My work here is done for the day.

The Baby Show

Baby's Invented Thoughts: Oh, not this again, Mom. I know I am cute...but you don't have to post a million cute pictures of me every day....

(This is Mom. Yes I do.)

Baby's Invented Thoughts: Well, if you must...

A little too much of the good stuff...?

This is Baby's turtle face. He makes it all the time. And I finally caught it on camera.

Can you sense how happy he is every single time he wears his Johnny Boyd onesie? He loves it. Always kicks his legs extra for this one.

And a picture of baby's new ride. With the actual essentials.

Until next time...

Our Little Leprechaun

St. Patrick's Day!

I made the traditional corned beef and cabbage. It was really good. However, I forgot to take a picture of it the day I made it. When it looked really yummy.

Sigh.

Here is a picture of the less attractive but still tasty leftovers.

We also had a sweet Irish soda bread. So good! I cheated on that one and got it from Sprouts. I will need to cheat on that move in the future. Their soda bread is very addicting.

And Five and I wrote a story about a very naughty leprechaun named Liam.

In order to be a good leprechaun Liam has to be very, very naughty. Which Five thinks is a brilliant concept.

We didn't have time to illustrate it this year. Maybe next?

To make up for this lapse, Liam left the boys a treat.