Easter Weekend 2011

In the prior post there was a picture of the Easter cookies we made and I asked if anyone would like to guess who decorated which cookie.  I had two takers (thank you Mom and Tommy) and one of them guessed correctly.  The order is Jon, Natalie, Daniel, me.

We made the sugar cookies from scratch and then they pressed the dough into the pan.

Everyone was hard at work spreading the frosting, which was also made from scratch.

Putting on the finishing touches.

Showing off their cookies.  I asked them to hold up their cookies and Daniel proceeded to pretend to eat it.  

Onto the coloring of the eggs.  We made a dozen eggs and they were colored in no time.  When we said there wasn't anymore, they decided to recolor some of the eggs.  

Easter Morning haul.

We went to the MN Zoo so we could see the farm babies.  This time it was pretty nice out and there was no snow to be found which surprises me considering the awfully cold spring we've had.  Our first stop was this play area.  There is a replica of the Split Rock Lighthouse, but I didn't get a picture of the kids in it.  I guess there's always next time.

We're tigers... ROAR!

Natalie walked the whole way on the wall and Daniel decided he didn't want to.

These piglets were the cutest little things.  They weren't very old and there was a lot of them.

The kids switched roles in this picture.  Do you see what I mean?  No?  Ok, I'll tell you.  Daniel is smiling, and Natalie, well... isn't.  In fact, she's hiding behind the cup.

Easter Egg Cookies

We made some Easter egg cookies.  Anyone want to guess who decorated which cookie?  Yes, even Jon decorated one, and yes, Daniel had a lot of help.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The previous post has a video in it of Natalie singing her bath toys song.  She made some other videos and they get a kick out of watching them.  For some reason a certain video makes them laugh every time they watch it.  Here's the video:

The part that cracks them up is at the very end when Natalie pulls Nemo away and says "No, don't pet him."

I can hear their laughter all over again when I look at the photos.

Bath Toys

I gave Natalie our Flip Camcorder and let her do her own thing.  What she created was a hit!  Check it out: (words are below it in case you can't understand what she's singing.  In fact, she doesn't even know a couple of the words, so I put a ? by them.)  The extra background noise is Daniel playing in the tub.

Bath toys, bath toys, I am the bath toys.  Look at the hand I'm the bath toys.

He's trying to grab one, but he can't.  Now he's gone.

... and then... he is...

But they all get splashed in the water.  Wiggle all in the taller.?

Look at the towel laying out.  The skeleton that you see from your sink.

... and look at the doll? at the mirror.

And the tear.

It's a catchy tune so watch out.  If you view it more than once, it'll be stuck in your head.

A catch up post.

Since I'm obviously way behind on posting, I'm going to just do one long post to show you what types of days we've had since my last post and what we've done.

We've had a...

movie night...

a snow day...

a trip to the dentist...

visitors...

a photo session (Daniel)...

and Natalie...

a fun time making lemon cubes...

and banana bread...

a school day...

a swim day...

a dance day...

and a learning at home day...

coloring...

 

saving...

and story time.

A zoo day...

another zoo day...

an airplane ride kind of day.

Braided piggies...

superheroes...

and can you see me?

Anyone feel sorry for Ozzie?

It just wouldn't seem right if there wasn't one of these photos:

There!  Do you feel caught up?