My little munchie man

I hope you all got a kick out of the previous post. I am sure it wasn't hard to figure out who the food culprit in my house was. Checking on my blog today made me realize that I never posted Christopher's 2Year Old pictures. So for the family that I promised to provide these to: Let me know if you can steal these pics off of my blog, or if you need me to e-mail them to you.

By the way, Christopher's teddy bear, who he named Nee Nee bear, was required in every shot. Christopher wouldn't get in front of the camera without him. Oh, well. At least we will always remember Nee Nee.

CSI Nielsen

There have been a few events at our home that needed some investigation. I have presented 3 incidents for your consideration.

Incident 1

Mommy has fallen asleep on the couch, and Daddy has done the same on the recliner. Mommy is woken by gentle nudging and someone saying, "I eed a canee pweese." Mommy awakens to see her little boy drooling chocolate all over his face, down his chin, and all over his shirt. Little boy has found the neighbor gifts and helped himself to a few pieces. To his credit, he has put all the wrappers in the chocolate covered garbage can :)

Incident 2

Mommy makes a delicious roast turkey for Christmas Eve dinner. All of the turkey is devoured, except for about 5 or 6 pieces which are lovingly placed in a ziploc bag for an appreciative daddy. The day after Christmas, mommy walks upstairs to check on her unusually quiet child. Upon reaching the kitchen, she discovers the fridge door is open, and a quiet rustling sound coming from the oldest child's bedroom. Mommy calls out to her little boy, who comes walking around the corner holding a ziplock bag of turkey in one hand, and is chomping on a piece of the turkey from the other hand. Little boy takes turkey out of his mouth and says, "I eed da chi-ken."

Incident 3

Daddy has decided to hard boil a few eggs to keep in the refrigerator as snacks. Daddy and mommy both enjoy the eggs, and coax their littlest boy into trying a piece. Little boy tastes the egg, and refuses another bite. The next day, mommy and daddy are playing Wii games in the basement with the older child, while the youngest boy runs upstairs to "Get a chocky milk." A few minutes later, little boy comes running down the stairs, chocolate milk in hand, and says to mommy, "I bide da heg." Mommy and Daddy look at him, and shrug their shoulders. Later, the family proceeds up the stairs to prepare for bedtime. As mommy nears the kitchen, she notices little white bits and pieces all over the kitchen floor near the fridge. Opening the fridge door, she discovers many more white pieces and a discarded hard boiled egg on the bottom shelf of the fridge. Mommy concludes that littlest child was trying to tell her he bit the egg.

Each of these scenarios involve the same suspect, and each have the same theme: Food. I have reviewed the cases thoroughly and come to the following conclusions. 1. I am not providing enough food. 2. I am not providing enough supervision. In either case, I am at fault, and really I just don't like that answer. Please provide your insight on these cases and any solutions you might have.

Preparing for Christmas

Here are a few of the things we have been doing to start off the holiday season:


The saturday after Thanksgiving we went downtown to see the lights at Temple Square


Here are my boys riding Trax back to Gateway. We visited Santa there, and ate at Applebee's. B was really excited to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas. Christopher, on the other hand, ran away from Santa so he could try to play with the ornaments and decorations instead.

Here is a picture of the tree we put up in the basement this year. It has all of our keepsake and homemade ornaments on it. B calls it the Santa tree!

This is my silver and purple tree in the living room. I started this tree the year Ben and I were married, and decorated it in our wedding colors. I still have some pictures and ribbon on the tree from our wedding. Each year I add a little bit more to it, and I have to admit that this picture just doesn't do it justice!

My favorite part of decorating this year has been to hang our stockings by the fireplace! Next year will look even better with a mantle, but still I think it's not too shabby!

Here is a picture I took of the boys this morning. When I told them it was snowing, they ran to the window to take a look. B asked me if he could go outside and ride in his sled. I told him he had to wait until he couldn't see the grass anymore first. Hopefully we get a few more storms before Christmas, so we won't have to look at the brown grass and dead plants for the holidays.

Tagged: my 4x4

Here's how this tag works:
1. Go to the "My Pictures" folder on your computer

2. Upload the 4th picture from the 4th folder

3. Post the picture

4. Tag 4 others

I know what you might be thinking, but this was seriously the 4th picture in the 4th folder! I have a folder of scanned pictures from JCPenny's. This is one of Christopher's newborn pictures. The stupid lady who took the original picture, didn't zoom in enough, so I had to scan it into my computer and zoom and crop it myself. This is one of my favorites of Christopher's first photo session. I have to admit, that it is definately easier to take their picture when they are a sleeping newborn, and not a wiggling, crying, two-year old!

I tag Alisha, Cansas, Sheena, and....the rest of you who stalk my blog!!

Twilight

So I was a little (okay, a lot) excited to see the Twilight movie. I am one of those people who totally loved the books, and I have been scouting the Internet weekly to get my vampire fix. Well, I got a group of girlfriends together to see the movie last night. I LOVED IT!!! It has been about a year since I read the book, so I had a hard time remembering what got left out, and what events happen in the second book, but I was pleased with how it turned out. There has been a lot of criticism online of the movie, so I will put two complaints to rest. One: some complain that the dialogue is cheesy. Well, the characters are teenagers! They aren't going to be spouting Shakespear. Second: There is criticism that Robert Patterson who plays Edward is not attractive. Well, I don't know what they did to the lighting and camera angles, but he looks pretty darn attractive in the movie! All in all, I left the movie wanting to see it again. Anyone want to go?

Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

Our little preschool had a party to celebrate Thanksgiving. We all got together in the church gym for a little feast. First the kids played hide n seek as turkeys. The one who was it could say, "Turkey call" and the kids who were hiding had to gobble. It was pretty funny to watch all the kids run and hide in the same spot each time.

We then helped (meaning we did all the work) the kids make pilgrim hats. B kept saying his was a pirate hat. That encouraged all the boys to wear their pirate hats. Christopher liked his hat alot too. Both boys wore them around the house for a while when we got home.

We then helped the kids weave placemats. We gave them plates with cheese, apples, carrots, mashed potatoes, and turkey. Christopher was so content to sit and eat for almost 30 minutes straight! After eating, the kids were able to decorate turkey shaped cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Christopher, surprising enough, didn't want to eat his cookie. He kept munching on carrots and picked the candy corn off his cookie. Oh, darn. I couldn't let a good cookie go to waste! Check out the pics of all the kids and their siblings enjoying the meal.

A little gem from B

So Ben and I decided to take the boys to see Madagascar 2 yesterday for our FHE. They have recently been watching the first one at home, and it was pretty funny to see Christopher running around the house singing "I yike to moobit, moobit!" Benjamin added his own twist to the song, and would shake his bum and sing, "I like to poot it poot it." How charming. The best is the conversation we had in the car on our way to the movie:

B: Mom, there is something on my jacket.
Me: I'm sorry B. We'll fix it when we get out of the car.
B: I think it might be a booger.
Me: Well, just leave it alone for now
B: Oh, don't worry mom. It's just a piece of my fingernail
Me: Okay B.
B: Mom, it's good when things aren't boogers.

There is your wisdom for the day. It's good when things aren't boogers.