March 30, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
hape brthda Granpa!!!!
(those streamers are fluttering in the breeze of the fridge fan, just so you know. Giant thought that was extra special 😉 )
We had a PARTY!!!
Even though our guest of honour is a zillion miles away in Texas…
Giant thought we should have a party. And get ribbons. And take a flat knife and pull the ribbons to make swirls in the ribbons!
Check.
We blew up balloons:
…and let them whiz around the room!:
What do you think Grandpa would like to eat for his birthday, Giant?
“Doughnuts. Because we had doughnuts for a snack at their house with Grandpa. And I had doughnuts for my birthday.”
We made fresh doughnuts:
Iced them.
Put candles on them — the cool ones with different colour flames, because that was important to Giant.
And sang Happy Birthday to Grandpa (we’ll sing for you later tonight too, I hope!)
We blew out some candles for you:
We had a bite or two for you:
Yes. Even Galoot got a suck. Because I knew that Grandpa would have snuck him a taste if he was here 😉
Then Giant worked on a Birthday Card:
(we’ll send it in the mail promptly 😉 )
Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!
We hope you have as much fun on your birthday as we did!
We love you so very much.
Thank you for being such a wonderful Grandpa for these boys to look up to.
Who likes to build, and has passed on that love to your daughter and her boys.
Who serves at Church, bright and early in the mornings 😉 So we can tell our boys that when we arrive at Church at 8:30am, Grandpa has been at his Church even earlier.
Who serves in the Temple, so that we can say “Grandpa and Grandma love going to the Temple too!”
Who took Grandma to the Temple to get married, so that we can be a forever family.
We are so glad you are part of our lives!!!
(Giant and Grandpa)
Right from the very beginning.
March 30, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
In our sunny window…
Tomatoes! Including a couple new “Tomato Tree” sprouts (far right):
In our grow-op indoor green house:
Tomatoes growing strong. And peppers loving the heat of the lights and reflective blanket:
And although I think I planted them only a couple of days ago or so, I have:
Cabbage…
Broccoli…
Brussel Sprouts…
Kale…
Which I thankfully labeled. Since they all look identical as seedlings.
And the very cutest?
Asparagus!
The seedlings look like microscopic little asparagus spears. Adorable!
March 29, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
Antibiotics are kicking in…Momma is back in the game…
The boys were looking at a math book, in a section which looked at comparison/measurement/ratio/graphs/proportion/and perspective. Neat, eh?
The book talked about analyzing the amounts of water in different containers:
And then talked about how to measure which container would be sweetest if sugar was added to them:
Giant was pretty sure we should try this one out ourselves.
So we did!
We filled up some containers with water.
And sugar.
Giant hypothesized that the largest cup would be the sweetest.
He tested his hypothesis:
So did Ettin:
And we discovered that the littlest container of water tasted the sweetest.
Ettin didn’t want to stop drinking.
Then the boys played with a cute board game, where their pieces have to help each other over obstacles in a haunted wood:
They helped me make muffins (the carrot /nut ones that taste a lot like pumpkin pie):
And they both worked on recipes.
Ettin drew pictures.
Giant wrote the ingredients. And drew some pictures too:
Cuarit nut mufins /carrot nut muffins
1 flawr/flour
2 shugr/sugar
3 bakGiGn POWdr/baking powder
4 solt/salt
5 egg/egg
6 carits/carrots
7 nuts/nuts
8 milc/milk
[of note, we talked about spaces between words. He did this, and then thought it would be even better if he put lines between the words to show that they were different words 🙂  ]
We had a nursing/reading break:
With careful precautions against mommy pain:
After lunch we went outside for a bit…
We found a little bit of spring:
Went Speedbiking.
Cleaned up some leaves.
And fed Galoot some snow:
Cold. Tasteless. And little gritty. He did not approve:
After boys were napping (rather later than usual) Giant helped me with dishes and then played in the water and bubbles for a while:
We now have a container of bubbles [soapy water] sitting in our fridge to “keep cold.”
Then Giant wanted to type my name:
Which he did! [Observe, please, the space between the words!):
Of note, there are no easy to find preschool typing games. And looking only makes a happily typing boy lose all interest in typing and want to play computer games.
Lesson learned.
March 29, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
The boys spent much of the morning “making a house.”
This involves completely re-arranging the furniture in their bedroom:
We read a few stories from The Ensign and The Friend for our Gospel lesson:
Galoot exercised with mommy on the mini-tramp:
Which means mommy didn’t really get to exercise.
Lucky for him, Galoot is too darn cute to get too grumpy at.
We had snacks. On the couch for some reason:
Giant was a “chef” and “baked things” with a bunch of carrot sticks:
Ettin delightedly sent a motorized car whizzing through a LittlePeople building:
After little ones were sleeping, Giant and I worked on some puzzles from Anno’s Math Games:
Building them himself was a little too tricky, but he could follow my examples.
After Ettin woke up, we played “The Haunted Wood” game, and actually followed the rules!
🙂 What a ham 🙂
March 28, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 1 Comment
We’ve got mail!!!
The boys poured over pictures and letters from Grandma and Grandpa:
Giant commented:
“We really need to go and visit Grandma and Grandpa’s house today. It’s really fun there.”
Aww. We miss you so much Grandma and Grandpa!
