I hate the whole bedtime snack thing. The kids just ate an hour ago and can’t possibly be really hungry. It is just another of their evil schemes to postpone bedtime and possibly consume more sugar.
But tonight the bedtime snack was a healthy one, blueberry soy milk smoothies. Here you see Max with his snot and dirt encrusted face gleefully digging in.
Lily has gotten very proficient at riding a regular scooter. She can’t go fast yet, but she can balance and keep on a straight track.
In other news, I measured her the other day and she is now a full 36″ tall! So big!
Today’s’ picture is brought to you by Target and a whole lot of sniffly noses around here. We spent $60 just to renew our medicine cabinet and keep everyone comfortable. We were totally out of tissues, vitamin C, cough drops, and needed plenty of decongestants so no one suffocates. The wine, however, was added by Jay. So far Posy, Jay, Lily, Molly, and I have it. But with the snowstorm of germy tissues blanketing every surface, I would guess it won’t be long before more family members succumb as well.
Poor Molly, the scratchy throat is so annoying, she can hardly sleep.
I would like to offer my sincere and heartfelt thanks to whoever invented Puffs with lotion and Vicks in the tissue. This is my new favorite product in the world. (At least until the cold is over.)
James has a girlfriend! We like her a lot (especially Lily) and are very happy to see James so happy.
Lily and Molly are enjoying all the beautiful weather for playing outdoors. Molly especially enjoys riding around in the little toy car and will ride in it as long as anyone is pushing her.
All the kids seem to have picked up music as a major part of their personality. I sometimes wish I could get just a little less music around here. If Molly pursues it like the others have, this picture will be a great one to share later on as well. Thanks to Posy for taking the picture. She is adding photography to her myriad talents.
Here is one more for the day, Molly looks like she is really concentrating on the music!
The kids love blueberry banana bread and the recipe is super simple too:
(Per loaf)
3 bananas
2 eggs
2 cups flour (I used whole wheat white)
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp each:
Salt
Baking powder
Baking soda
Vanilla
1/2 cup oil (add after other ingredients are mixed)
1 cup blueberries
Bake at 350 for one hour.
My loaves were baked for a little more than an hour, since I forgot about them. But they are still tasty.
Before:
After:
It breaks my heart to lop of those lovely curls, but he wanted them shorn and he HATES to have his hair wet down in the morning. So, Buzz Boy is back!
Two feet are Posy’s, two are Tessa’s, and one is Lily’s
We had the surprise opportunity today to see the Harlem Globetrotters, AND we got a suite at the arena. The kids got a kick out of the comedy and action, and Molly loved going up and down the stairs in the suite and mooching food off of her aunt.
