Tuesday, October 7, 2008

FUN stuff


I follow this fun blog called Tip Junkie. Today she did a post on Halloween treats for the kids and I felt really inspired to try some of them: (I think Ken would have a blast making this one!) I would love to have a halloween party for Kenedey and her friends... do you think I can get motivated enough to have a few 6th graders over and do some fun treats/activities? Well here's to trying... i'll let you know how I come out!


Monster Mash

6 white bark chocolate squares

1 cup pretzel sticks

2 cups honey graham cereal

1 cup Halloween Color M&Ms

1 cup miniature marshmallows

orange food coloring

chocolate sprinkles

1. Melt 2 squares and then add pretzel sticks, coat well and place separately on wax paper until chocolate is hard.

2. Once chocolate is set/hard melt the remaining 4 squares. Once melted add orange food coloring.

3. Add 1 cup of honey graham cereal to half of melted chocolate and mix until the cereal is well coated with chocolate.

4. Add remaining ingredients... cereal, M&Ms, marshmallows, remaining chocolate, mix, add pretzels and chocolate sprinkles mix well.

5. Spoon out mixture in large clusters onto wax paper. Let the chocolate set and then eat.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Not even going there...



LOL, didn't want to start the topic of Bad Blogger! It's been another month and I haven't even taken the time to blog. Geez! It's a multitude of things but all that make me either not want to blog or not have the time to blog. Enough with the excuses because we all know that my memory sucks. So this is memory outlet... I must get better at blogging about the kids at least.


So Carson... he is as fun as ever. His vocabulary is increasing all the time and it's so fun to watch him come up with different things. Last night we were sitting at the dinner table and he always wants to drink pop. I know bad bad bad... toxic poison right mom? LOL why do kids always want what they should not have? Anyway... he had a glass of milk and kept asking Jason if he could have his pop. Kenedey says, "Carson, this is pop right here in your cup." So Carson goes to his cup looks in it and says, "oh, ok..." he takes a drink and makes that ahhh sound like he liked what he just drank... then looks at us all and says.... "that not pop... that mulk" We all about died laughing like we thought we had him and then he throws that at us! Yeah he's no dummy.


I have been really bad about taking pics so these are from 2 weeks ago when we did a photograph with the leprechaun at the Irish Hills festival... more pics to come soon!


He has really taken a liking to the show the Wonder Pets. He runs through the house yelling in his deep voice... "wunda pets on... wunda pets comin' on"! So excited! Then he can sing most of the song that opens the show. For me it's a guaranteed 1/2 hour break from Carson! Undivided attention to the wonder pets! Thank You Wonder Pets. Outside of that he spends a ton of time saying things like.. "kari... come ere" (must repeat like 4 times)... and yeah he calls me Kari most of the time! He gets this really excited look on his face and says, "hey ken, you play cars a me?" he like tilts his little head and drops his jaw and this excited voice... how can you tell him no?


School is going great for Kenedey. Last week she went to 6th grade camp and had a great time. She tells me she enjoyed archery the most (little Stephanie!). They also had a crud war where they got flour, shaving cream, bird seed and spaghetti noodles and got to just make a mess of each other. Sounds like a blast to me! When they were done they all had to go jump in the lake to clean off! Can you imagine 100+ 6th graders in that lake and what the water must have looked like... EWWW!


She is playing the trombone and seems to really enjoy that. Carson really likes her to play it, he just giggles at her. The dog on the other hand... is SCARED.TO.DEATH. of that thing, causes him to shake and hide... does.not.like.it!!!


Car is still doing great with being potty trained. I don't think he has had any accidents. Worst part though... he goes in there and takes his pants completely off because he climbs on the toilet backwards(this does help with aim ;). Then when he's done, he gets down washes his hands and comes out.. yeah what did he forget? To put the pants back on. I know its tough, but half the time he runs around half naked. Were working on this... frustrating! He has no shame either, say someone comes to the door... oh yeah he full force runs to the door and says, "I got it" Naked or not! So warning if you come to our door... yes, we do have clothes for our son... however... he thinks its WAY too much work to put the pants back on after doing his bathroom business... ugh!