It’s been a busy baking weekend. Yesterday I made a pool themed cupcake cake and cake pops for a friend’s son’s first birthday party. The ideas were straight from Bakerella’s blog. I think they turned out pretty well, with the exception of some bears that decided to amputate their legs and sneak [...]
All day today MonkeyBoy has been talking about how he’s a big boy, and he didn’t need his binkie anymore, and how he wanted to take it to the mall to trade it in for toys. After several hours of this, we decided to go ahead and support his decision and take him to [...]
In amongst a dozen other errands I had to do today in preparations for MonkeyMan’s birthday celebration, MonkeyBoy and I ran to the mall to check out the dinosaur costume. It fit well and he REFUSED to take it off. Wouldn’t remove it so we could pay for it, wouldn’t take if off [...]
PBS has changed their lineup and added in new shows. This includes a new offering by the Jim Henson workshop, Dinosaur Train. MonkeyBoy is in love with the show. I don’t mind that, but I do mind that he’s now changed what he wants to be for Halloween. Again.
Several weeks ago [...]
Is there anything better than playing in puddles after five zillion days of drought?
This week was our week to provide snacks at MonkeyBoy’s preschool. I had no idea what to provide for snacks, so I decided to be creative. Everyone ooh’d and aah’d over the snacks and today the teachers told me that I really set the bar high for everyone else. The first day [...]
MonkeyBoy loves to carry things. He especially loves to carry things in bags. He calls backpacks “pack-packs” and delights in dragging around the ones that MonkeyMan and I use to take our things to work.
MonkeyBoy started pre-school last week and one of the things he needed was his own backpack. [...]