Adventures in Cupcakes

These were made for my Mom's birthday by me, Katherine, and David. We had a cookout so thought these were appropriate.
Cassie and I made the sunflowers. It was a bit if an ordeal getting semi-decent petals on the flowers, but we had fun and learned a lot and have plans for more in the future.

Making cupcakes is FUN! Especially with a friends.

Trip to San Antonio

Last weekend the boys and I made an impromptu visit to San Antonio with my parents to visit my brother and slide over to Austin for Landan's 5th birthday party. It was fun and I am glad we made the trip. I had never been to San Antonio. We went down to the Riverwalk and had GREAT barbecue. I also found a gift shop and got myself some new windchimes to go on my new deck (more on that later.) I lost all my windchimes to Hurricane Ike.

We also went to eh Alamo, which I found fascinating, but the boys were a bit bored.
I have more to post anout the trip, but my baby is crying and won't let me continue. More later!

Ya Pack Rats!

(Mom, Dad, I told you I was going to blog about this. Love ya!)
Most of you know my parents are moving tomorrow to the land of the heathens for the next 6 1/2 years. This means they have cleaned out everything. I got several boxes of spices and while Cassie and I were going through them and dividing them amongst ourselves, we found these.
The cloves on the bottom in the red container were bought from Kroger. There are no Kroger stores in the north so this was bought in Texas. The expiration date is Oct. 1983! They bought those when they lived in Baytown in the early 80s!! And they have carted them around from state to state since then. Plus the container was 90% full. And they had another box of cloves they expired in 1988. All the spices pictured above expired in the 80s.

People, it is okay to toss ancient food. I will send you the $2 to get more cloves.

Massive Appointment

Today we had well-child visits for all 3 kids. I missed Nathan's in February. With James being born, everything was a little thrown off.

KENNY
Age: 7 years
Height: 45 inches (a little over 3 1/2 feet)
Weight: 41 lbs.
Other: The doctor said he is on the lower side of average for his height. Weight is obviously low, but his height and weight are proportional.

NATHAN
Age: 4 years
Height: 38 inches
Weight: 31 lbs
Other: Both Nathan and Kenny are not under weight- they are petite. Nathan needs to see a pediatric neurologist about his migraines. They have been increasing in frequency over the year.

JAMES
Age: 6 months
Height: 25 inches (little shorty)
Weight: 16 lbs.
Other: He is growth chart wise the biggest of my kiddos. He is doing great!

My baby is 6 months!

He has two front teeth on the bottom. His favorite food is bananas. He hates rice cereal. He still does not sleep through the night. He gets up between 3-5 times a night. I don't get up with him every time, but he cries for a good 5 minutes and that still keeps me awake. He loves his excersaucer. He has an intense look in his eyes and when he looks at you it feels as if he is peering right into your soul. He is a serious little guy, but he has a beautiful smile.

Here he is with Emma, his cousin two days older than him. CUTE!

One of the Down Sides of Reading

Now that Kenny can read pretty well, he recognizes anything on commercials with the www. in front as a website . And then he tries to look them up. Lucky, he is well screened in what he watches, and we don't have cable so the T.V. is not on very often. And his computer time is limited and locked down. Anyway, he sees these commercials and wants to look up the item and then ask me for it. Not regular kid stuff- strange things.

Yesterday, he asked me for a turbo snake. It was sompletely out of the blue and I didn't undertand what he was refering to so he clarified, "You use it to get hair out of the drain. Here, I'll find the internet site and you can see it."

He has also asked for a Sham Wow and a juicer. And I caught him trying to remember how to spell bowflex.

And now he is SEVEN!

Thursday marked Kenny's 7th birthday! We celebrated with a bowling birthday. I made bowling cupcakes. Kenny was very excited to eat the ball.

Of course we also went bowling. The boys really enjoy bowling. I have to say we are a dismal bunch of bowlers. Daddy won with a 128. Everyone else was in the 70s, and I came in last with a 63. And I was actually trying. The point is they had a great time. Kenny is too small hold the ball properly with his fingers. He goes with a toss the ball down the alley approach. Nathan needed help to push his down the alley. He couldn't get enough power behind the push. About a minute after it left his hand it would get stopped halfway down and we had to get an employee to get the ball.
Papa's job was to take care of little guy. They're so cute!
Yes, that is his own chess game. We got tired to him asking to use our board game set so we got him his own. And yes, he can play chess the right way. And he will be more than happy to teach you how to play if you don't know already.
Happy birthday little man! We hope that this next year will bring you many great things. We look forward to seeing you continue to grow and develop. you are an amazing child with a vivid imagination and a thirst for knowledge. We love you very much!