It's Bananas!

Last night Asher awoke crying in the middle of the night. I waited a few minutes to see if he was still asleep, but he kept crying, so I went in to ask what was the matter.

He said, "I wanted the last bite of Chancery's banana, but you ate it first!"

Now, I am not a fan of bananas. I don't like their taste, I don't like their texture. I don't even like banana bread, so there was no possible way that Asher was talking about an actual event.

I told him, "I didn't eat any banana, you had a dream about bananas. Dreams are stories that happen in your head while you are sleeping."

Asher replied, "No I didn't! You ATE the banana, & I wanted it!"

I could see that there was not going to be any reasoning with him (& frankly, I didn't want to put in the time to try to do so), so I told him that if he still wanted a banana in the morning when he woke up, he could have one at breakfast.

This morning he had no interest in having a banana, but he sure enjoyed explaining his dream to Daddy!

Sunday Pictures

Asher - 3 years
Chancery - 1 year
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He's Been Listening!

The kids & I were at a charity shop yesterday & Asher got settled right in playing with the toys. I decided to look at the kids' clothes, but since they are across the store I thought I should let Asher know where I was, just in case he looked up & I wasn't right there.

Me: "Asher, I'm going to go look at the clothes a minute."

Asher: "Ok, you better go and do that then." (sounding a bit like what we tell him when he tells us he has to go to the washroom)

Asher: "When your body tells you that you need to do that, you need to listen to it."

I'm not quite sure that he was paying attention to where I said I was going. I think if he had decided to look for me, he would've been looking in the washroom rather than amongst the clothing racks.



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Who Can It Be Now?

There's a penguin in the house.....





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An Improvement

Remember this post from a few years ago? Well, I finally got around to doing something about those bushy eyebrows. I asked a friend to help me out & she was almost TOO happy to offer her assistance.

Now, I've never really done much with my eyebrows, but I figured it was high time I did. On the way home from church last week, Asher started asking me about my eyebrows & I figured that if my 3 year old son was noticing these kinds of things, I must look a sight.

Before

So, last night I went over to my friend's house & she quite cheerfully waxed & shaped & trimmed those puppies into submission. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it didn't really hurt very much, maybe I'll even have it done again sometime in the next 30 years!

After

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Beautiful Trees

We have these great trees on one side of our yard that mark the boundary b/w our yard & the neighbour's. I'm starting to get a bit worried about them though b/c we noticed the other day they have something resembling mushrooms on them.


We have no idea how they got there, what they are, or what to do about them. If you have any ideas, please could you inform us? If they kill my trees, I'll be gutted.




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Creativity Fostered

I'm hoping to get my kids to think outside the box & be creative. I want them to be able to use their imaginations & spark new ideas. I dream of the day that they can entertain themselves for hours on end with a cardboard tube.....






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Sunday Pictures

Asher - 3 years
Chancery - 1 year
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Asher: "My very own cow slippers are going to say 'cheese' too."

Chancery: "He is so funny, Mum!"

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The Funny Tree

Often I hear from the backseat, "Mummy, you know that funny tree? The one that goes ALL over the place? I LIKE that tree!"


This is the tree in question. We found it a few weeks ago when we were randomly driving around to see if we could find a fun place to explore. It's at the end of a road not far from our house. We stopped one day to walk in the forest & as we got to the end of the path, there was this tree.



It's not very difficult to climb, and you can't go very high, but it's just the perfect tree for a 3 year-old to spend half an hour going up & down, up & down, expending all that pent-up energy, while his sister goes running off down the path in the opposite direction!


It's just too bad that the rainy season has come & the days we can be outside are fewer & fewer.





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Does He Get It From Books?

Sunday Asher was having a little trouble with his belt. He doesn't wear one often, but he gets really excited about wearing them when his trousers are a bit too big for him. He tried for quite awhile by himself in his room, to get it just right, but it was proving too difficult for him. Finally he came to find PChad & I overheard him say, "I tried & tried to get my belt on, alas, I could not."

Honestly, what 3 year-old uses "alas" properly in a sentence?




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Self-Filled Cupcakes

I decided the other day, that since cream cheese was on sale, it was time to make some of these cupcakes, since they are DIVINE! So I pulled out the cake mix, the sugar, counted the eggs, got the cream cheese, & the chocolate chips. I had even made a special trip to find cupcake papers after I realized that I had forgotten to pick them up at the grocery store.

Next I began looking for the muffin tins. I couldn't find them anywhere, but since I had the cupcake papers, I figured I could just put them in a 9x13. Trial & error, my friends, and this was an error. I had to work really fast in order for the cake part not to ooze out of the papers, but in the end it worked alright. Next time I'll most definitely get some of the proper pans first.

Like most of the foods I make, they don't look great, but they taste marvelous! Here's the recipe in case you're interested:

1 pkg Choc Cake Mix
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8 oz Cream Cheese -softened
1/3 C Sugar
1 Egg
Dash Salt
1 C Semi-sweet Choc Chips

Mix cake mix according to directions. Fill paper cups in muffin pans 2/3 full. Cream the cheese w/ sugar; beat in egg & salt. Stir in choc chips. Drop 1 rounded teaspoon into each cupcake. Bake as package directs. Makes about 30.

I had some extra of the filling, so I just put that into cupcake cups as well & baked it w/ all the rest. Delicious!






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New Nephew!

Congratulations to my brother Brian & his lovely wife, Brenda on the arrival of their first baby! Noah was born in the wee hours of the morning, & both mum & baby are doing fine. He's beautiful & we can't wait to meet him!









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Sunday Pictures

Asher - 3 years
Chancery - 1 year
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Asher, you need to sit down properly, so I can see your face

Asher: "How's this? CHEEZIES!"

Chancery: "He has a toy & I want it!"

Asher: "Are you going to make me share?"

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Poppin' Bubbles!

After watching Asher do this for awhile, Chancery thought she'd better have a go as well.

Bacon Ranch Chicken

Bailey's Leaf is hosting a Crock-Pot fest today, so here's a new favourite recipe of ours. Click on the link for more recipes!





Bacon Ranch Chicken

3 T Bacon Bits
1 t Chopped Garlic
1 pkg Ranch Dressing Mix
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
1/2 C Milk
1 C Sour Cream
4 Chicken Breasts

Place the chicken in crock-pot.
Mix ingredients in bowl & pour over chicken.
Cook on low 3-4 hours.
Serve over Egg Noodles.

It's super easy & quick to make, so it's my kind of recipe!