My Son makes me laff! What a joy he is!!!!

We harvested all but 4 of our carrots this weekend. Yum!

I was a bit overwhelmed not sure what to do with them. Recipe one, sauteed in olive oil with fresh home grown garlic and rosemary and store bought honey. very good. So if anyone has any good carrot recipes please send them my way.

AAAAR MATE!
MAX TURNS 3!!!!!



What a Fun Party!
Thank you to GramaMaggie and MeMIke & Pops for all their help in putting on such a wonderful party for Max! We couldn't have done it without you guys!!!! And thank you to all our amazing friends and family who traveled over and hour on a Saturday morning in the rain to help Max celebrate his birthday! And thanks to all the hoodies who treat Max like he was their family, we love you all!

It was a nice intimate party due to the rain we all ended up sitting on the floor playing games with the kids, dressing them up and drawing on mustaches. Once the rain stopped we got to enjoy the muggy outdoors a little too. All in all it was great!

Thanks again everyone! Enjoy your pirate photos. We will send hardcopies in the mail.

The Ship

Well..... I googled "how to build a pirate ship out of cardboard" and got my self into a big job. I found this site Mr. McGroovy's this amazing site shows parents how to build amazing thing for kids to play in and on. So I decided to try to build the ship and with Ben's help I did! About June we asked Lowes (sorry Uncle Gabe) to start saving us refrigerator boxes, we needed 7! Then the weekend Max was staying with Maggie I cut out all my pieces. then it took a few nights here and there to put it together saved the last assembly for the morning of the party.... then it rained. We kinda new it would rain but we weren't sure what else to do but just put it up and enjoy it. When it finally stopped raining the kids did get to enjoy it and i have to say as sad as I was to see my creation dissolve in the rain it was still all worth it.

The kids got all dressed up in pirate gear. mustaches, hat's patches and more.

The Cake & Pirate Pops

Thanks to all the grandparents who made this amazing cake possible!






I found the recipe for these cute rice crispy treats "Pirate Pops" on line and had to give it a go. They were really fun to make and eat! I think I might have found a new fun medium!

Here are a few of our wonderful guest who posed for a pirate picture! My apologies to those I missed.

Turning 3

I can't believe my little snuggle bunny is turning 3. Seems like just yesterday we were accident proofing everything! Now we have no gate on the stairs! He moved up to the 3's room at play school yesterday. Max has about 4 or more kids who all went together from the 2 room to the 3 room so he has lots of friends already. He will have a big boy cubby and the teacher wants us to fill with pictures of his family - cute! I like the teacher a lot. He is making good headway on the potty training. He has great table manners and has been sleeping thru the night a lot in his big boy bed! He makes up these crazy stories about working in a big building that has an elevator, going to his office where he makes news, riding a motercycle, helicopter, train... he rambels on and on and if you listen really close you might get every 3rd word. I've recorded some of it on my phone to listen to any old time.

I look forward to this year of 3 to 4 and all the new things. I do miss the baby though.