Trouble with a capital T!

I left the kitchen for 2 minutes to talk w/Brian about dinner plans. We noticed it was pretty quiet around the house and then we heard some shaking noises in the kitchen. When I ran in to see what was going on, this is what I found: Summer got into all of my decorating sugars, etc. and was pretty much drinking/eating them from the bottle. Plus, she poured piles of the stuff all throughout the pantry. When we tried to wipe it off the counter - red dye smeared everywhere. It was a HUGE mess to clean up.

All I can say is:

Summer is an imph that moves like speed lightening!! WOW!

Tooth #2 - GONE!

Ben lost his 2nd tooth and was sooo excited to put it under the pillow. It's amazing how excited Ben gets over waking up to a $1 bill....trust me, I'm enjoying it too (only a dollar!!).

Happy Heart Day!!

We always make heart shaped cookies on Valentines Day. That's our big thing and something I've been doing since Ben was born and something my mom did with us every year that I can remember! It's a fun activity for all of us. Here we are making the dough: Summer spilled water on her shirt.....so had to change into a new outfit for the frosting and eating stage of our project!

Licking the frosting out of the bowl is almost as good as eating the cookies!

The finished Project:

Valentines in the Mail!

Grandma and Pa Weber sent Summer & Ben Valentines in the mail - with $2 bills. VERY EXCITING!! Grandparents are the best! (Ben was very excited - he looks a little psycho to me....but I told him not to blink)

What do you want to be when you grow up???

Ben's kindergarten class talked about community service and about people who work in the community. And then the class was given a month to dress up their paper doll to what they wanted to be when they grew up. Ben has talked about being a policeman when he grows up since he was aboug 3 1/2. Not just any policeman....first, it was the policeman on the motorcycle. But then he realized that some police get to fly helicopters so that is his DREAM job.

This is his finished product. I'm not sure who was more proud of the finished project - Me or Ben! Boy, that was a lot of work for a non-crafty person like me!!

Forts and Naps - Feb 2010

We spent a big part of the morning building forts - the kids thought that was fun!! Summer always has to have several of her stuffies around with her:

And Brian joined in when we got to the "nap" part of the day :-)

My Artist II - Feb 2010

Another fun day with the dry erase/chalk board. I'm not sure who did more drawing - me or Ben!