A short video of some ball hockey going on in the kitchen.

 

Opened stocking full of toy dinosaurs.


Played flashlights with Grandma M.

Cousin cuddles!

Making funny faces at Cornwell Christmas.


Wearing the Pollyanna top hat.

Playing Wii with the Big Kids.


Falling asleep on the way home.

Ninja Boy is a great help in the kitchen.

Well this statement needs a little qualification.  He likes to help bake items, he likes to remind me that things need to be baked.  So as the Cookie season is approaching, I decided to branch out from the muffins that we normally make and bake some cookies.

Adding butter

We can't be done

My fingers are green

A little if this, a lot of that

The final masterpieces

More cookies will be made, just did a small amount today to see how it goes (there is dough left in the fridge).

For Ninja Boy October Fun is all about:

Apple picking!

Leaf jumping!


Papa playing!

Birthday caking!


And chocolate chomping!

I just love this. The off-beat clapping makes me giggle.

Wow, the past year just flew by. My little boy went from

Sitting in leaves

to

Sitting in pile of leaves

Running through the leaves

MMM chocolate

With Aunt Sia

I just want to eat it,

Playing in the corn

Too cool

"I ride on Daddy's shoulders, I can almost touch the sky"

Hmm, looking at our blog posts you wouldn't know that we made it home from California a couple of weeks ago before this most recent earthquake (in Southern Cali).
Today though we did what in my mind marks the beginning of summer...

Was it swimming in Lake Erie

Nope - we actually did that in May (which I find just amazing that the water was warm enough).
It involved some key phrases:

1) You can't climb on Mommy right now

2) If you take a bite - you have to eat the rest of it

3) The straw is not to eat

4) Another clue... okay

Did you guess - Strawberry picking - cause if you did you got it right.