Good Mommy Moment: French Onion Soup

This boy sure likes his French Onion Soup. What kid likes that?
Oh...Mine!

(this is just a nice balance to the nacho dinner)

Bad Mommy Moment: Nacho Edition

Dinner consisted of Extreme Nachos

To drink: Chocolate Milk

I'm not up to anything bad or anything...

...just a bit of a lazy day, that's all

oh...and I had sour cream that needed to be used up.
That's a good reason to eat chips for dinner right?

Healthy? No!
Tasty? Definitely!

21.5

This ain't no joke. That boy is a BIG boy (at least for us). A mere two months ago, he barely weighed 18lbs and now he's up to 21.5lbs. That last half pound came last week. If he continues growing the way he is, Joel and Micah will be the same size by summer. They are virtually in the same size now. The only reason they aren't in the same size pants is because Joel has longer legs. (Sadly, Joel's waist still fits 6-12 months size, whereas that's a tight squeeze for Micah). Their shirts are only one size away from each other...and don't get me started on their feet! At least dressing them for summer will be easy. One size fits all!

Brothers

Brushing away the sugar bugs from Sugar High Sunday.
We love our sweet Easter Bread....

Paska

This is what happens when you start making Paska (traditional sweet Easter bread) at 8pm.
It was our first attempt. The recipe is old school. You know...add enough flour to make soft dough kinda thing. (yah..thanks for that. 10 cups later......)
We didn't let it rise long enough. It was already 11:30pm when we "finished" the final rise.
We set 3 timers and threw it in the oven for an hour and went to bed as neither one of us could muster the strength to stay awake that long.
About 15 minutes after the timers went off (one repeatedly every 10 seconds), we finally woke up to JOEL! Dan rescued the bread, but it was already too late.
Crispy Paska anyone?
 

Pears

We were at the vegetable store in Langley (yeah Ralphs!) the other day when we saw bags of pears on the clearance rack. $1.99 for a HUGE bag of pears.

So, the pears weren't pretty looking. But they are completely edible. Dan and I decided that we would can the pears since we had been rationing our pear supply for months. Joel really enjoys them and we were 3 jars away from completion. We grabbed 5 bags of pears to start. I kept telling Dan that he shouldn't leave that lonely bag on the shelf. Well, needless to say, 3 bags later, we ended up with a total of 8 bags of pears for a little under $16.

When we got home, we threw them all in a box to weigh them. We were surprised to find out that we had just purchased 50lbs of pears!!! That works out to 33 cents a pound! Steal! (Dan wants to note that grocery stores are currently selling them anywhere from $1.39-$2.48/lb)

We ended up with 56 jars of pears for a mere two and half hours of work. Not bad!

Shoes

Micah's favorite thing to chew on: shoes

You think he was a dog or something...

(better than Joel's affection for licking toilet seats)

Epic Meltdown

This is what happens when your two year old realizes that we are NOT going to Grandma's house.
Epic tantrum. Two seconds after this picture is taken, he threw the toy in protest.
He proceeded to scream and kick for a few more minutes until we promised to see Grandma again soon. That just lessened the screams into a whimper and deep sobbing. What can we say?
This boy LOVES his Grandma. A LOT.

Super JOEL

 

Dan-isms

Dan came home from work and saw this mess.
 He said, "It looks like Noah's Ark threw up in our living room."