Little Snoozer & Big Brother Bruiser

She is so sweet!

This Little Snoozer fell asleep watching TV while I was trying to slice apples. Big Brother was trying to be a helper to wake her up -- it was only 11:30. I wanted to just transition her to her crib...but I made the mistake of taking a picture and video first. My distracted state of admiring how adorable my daughter is, allowed Jason to completely wake her up. So "up," that it took 1 1/2 hours for her to wind down in her crib before falling back to sleep. Gotta love big brothers :)

Her reaction (oh man, I just watched the video and saw that I stopped filming right before she screached at him in annoyance) in the video actually reminds me of a trick my brothers played on me one time when I too fell asleep on the couch. They rigged up a string with a weight on the end and hung the string on a hook in the ceiling right above me. This way they were able to move the wited string down to tickle my face, and then up when I sleepily tried to swat at some annoyance. They bugged me with this for a few minutes. Finally I was roused enough to realize they were behind whatever it was that was ticlkling my face. At his point I said "YOU GUYS" in a very whiny and disgusted tone. Got up. And stormed off to my bed. And yeah, they filmed the entire scene (my how I wish I could put that on this blog). Gotta love big brothers :)

Canning Queen

Canning has always seemed so difficult and scary to me. Although I remember having canned tomatoes and other things in our home, I don't remember ever seeing my parents can them. Maybe they wiated until the kids were in bed, or maybe those tomatoes were relics from earlier years. Anyway, the point is, I never learned how or even saw it being done. Last year an experienced friend came over and we canned applesauce and apple pie filling together. This experience made me see it was doable--but it still seemed SOOO scary to me. This year I finally gathered up the courage to venture out on canning 40 lbs of apples on my own. Yesterday and today I have been a Canning Queen. You have to love the popping the lids to that tells you that have been processed correctly. Seriously, I haven't felt this proud and accomplished since birthing Addie--funny, huh! It feels great to have tons of applesauce -- 11 pints and 6 quarts -- to add to our food storage. Jason and Addie love applesauce in their oatmeal...if there's every an emergency, breakfast will be taken care of!!!! Phew ;)

PlayDough Fun

I should really use old standbys like playdough more often. The kids played with this happily for about an hour.

Addie really enjoyed making small pieces, putting them in the container, and placing the lid on (the lid required Mommy's help). She did this over and over.

Jason had a ball with the machine that would squeeze the playdough through shaped slots making long strings.