Luken recently asked me what he could help with in the kitchen while I was preparing dinner, and I try to say 'yes' as often as possible. On this particular day, I needed to have 10 cloves of garlic smooshed in the press, and I figured that's pretty much like working with Play-Doh, so I let Luken have at it! Of course, then I had to take pictures, so it wasn't really 'helping' me, but we'll keep that on the down low!
And, a bonus picture of the princess. I was just testing a few things with some lenses, and tried to get the kids to help me out. Keeley was interested for about .0000005 seconds, but that was more than Luken could handle at that moment! Anyway, here is one cute shot of Keeley!
Today we attended a playdate at Krispy Kreme! YUM!
The kids got to gaze through the big picture window at the passing donuts, as they cooked in the grease, turned over for more cooking, and then took a glaze shower!
"Yook, yook!"
I have no idea what either of them were doing in this picture. I just thought it was funny that they were looking in opposite directions. :)
In deep conversation about glaze!
After learning about how the donuts are cooked, they got to dip their own donuts in chocolate and sprinkles... COOL!
This morning Keeley decided to try out some Mommying on her baby doll. Baby had to go into "time out," no doubt for hitting or something like that. ;)
Luken got into the act, first using his Lovey, and they acted out Lovey and Baby hitting each other, and then going into time out.
Here Keeley is saying, "Time out for FIVE minutes!" (Notice her hand showing 5.)
Then Luken adopted one of the other babies, and apparently both babies became scared of monsters, so they comforted their babies by sitting on the couch with them. Luken requested a TV show "for the babies. They want to watch something." I declined.
Next the babies were tired, and the kids tried to put them to sleep on the stairs, but I knew we could do better than that, so I found a Gymboree clothing box and some old burp cloths to make beds for the babies!
Aw, the babies are soooo tired!
Here is where the cuteness goes OVER THE TOP!
The kids decided to sing a lullaby to their babies. I sing this song every day at nap and bedtime. It is from The Backyardigans, specifically the Viking Voyage episode, where Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua sing a lullaby to Mermaid Tasha to put her to sleep so they can escape her and discover new land. Anyway, here they are, singing to the babies!!
I took the kids to participate in a cookie decorating playdate recently. It was kind of difficult to take pictures while Keeley sat on my lap, but I did my best!
They started with some pre-cooked and pre-outlined cookies:
One day last week, it was nice and cool in the morning, so I took the kids to the park to play for a bit. The day before had called for rain, but none appeared, and this day said rain was less likely, so I figured we'd have no problem.
Except the heavens opened up and absolutely soaked us. Thank goodness we had driven to the park! Still, the dash back to the car was just long enough to get us all totally wet, so we headed home to put our clothes in the dryer.
The kids decided to snuggle up on the couch while we waited for the dryer to do its thing.
I have no idea what Keeley was thinking or doing here! LOL!
