Sunday, March 8, 2009

Favorite Book Characters

February 27th


I love to read month at Ice Cream's school included a dress-up as your favorite character day. The families were welcome to join at the end of the day to see a magician. In case you need a little help - Candy is Fancy Nancy, Milk Dud is Winnie the Pooh, and Ice Cream is Harry Potter.


At our school carnival I was able to bid on a few teacher sponsored events. We won a night with the school media center person for a pizza party and movie night. I actually one 3 passes so Ice Cream was able to invite a few friends. It turned out to be quite a few of his friends that won so they had a great time.


Face Paint - Winter is getting LONG!
























































Monday, February 23, 2009

Waterpark

We just got back from the waterpark. Wow, are we tired. This is our 2nd, hopefully annual, time to the waterpark. Candy was sick last year so she was really excited to go. We with four other families from our neighborhood. We all stayed overnight and enjoyed lots of rides.



Milk Dud is now 17 months and just loves the water. He wanted to go down all the big/little rides and did many of the small ones by himself.



Candy tried all the rides and said her favorite ones were the bodyslides which we thought she was too small for. She loved sleeping in bunk beds and now wants some for her room. Candy tried the surfing ride 2 times. We thought after the first try she would not go back but she did. She was able to stay on for quite some time.



Ice Cream really likes the lazy river but is not very lazy on it. He enjoys swimming to empty tubes and moving fast. He tried the surfing ride a lot less this year. He fell off the first try and hurt his collar bone, but he tried again. Not as many tricks this year from him. The lines were long.



Doughnut (Dad) did some great tricks on the surfing ride. He did a barrel roll at least 2 times before falling off.



I enjoyed all the rides. The women went on the family ride together (it is a large tube everyone sits in). One friend kept saying how much she hated going down the ride backwards. Well, I knew that if I asked the lifeguard quietly to make sure she was backwards he would help me out. My friend in the poka-dot-suit had no idea I did that and when the lifeguard turned us as he pushed us down the tube she was confused. I laughed the whole way down and of course broke the news at the bottom. I sure hope she has forgiven me, but I am still laughing!

















This was our group last year. Unfortunely, we did not get a large group picture this year.










Buns

February 19th





I really like to bake. It makes me happy when I know my family and friends really enjoy what I have made. Today we made buns to go with supper. We have not made them for a while, so my family was excited. Milk Dud could not WAIT for them to be done. We kept checking on them to see if they were ready. He was very sad, as you can see below, when we had to wait longer. We did not wait for dinner and ate a few as soon as they were cool enough.





Last year, for Ice Cream's birthday, we were talking about what to bring for a treat to his class. He said, "Mom, I would really like to bring your buns for everyone. I know you have to bring in store bought food but that is what I would really want." (We thought that was great for a 1st grader to choose buns over sweats.)














Thursday, February 19, 2009

Wigs - from 1970's?

February 19th
We had a few friends here today. They decided to play dress-up and I did not even get the camera out for that. But when they found the wigs I had to take a few shots.

This is Candy looking at herself in the mirror.



Great Weekend with Zach the Zebra

We had Zach for the whole weekend.
He is the traveling zebra from Candy's preschool.
This is our last day with him.









Thanks honey for the beautiful flowers, cake, and MP3 player!!





What do you get when it melts and then freezes?

A fun place for kids to play.
Just make sure the moms know they will be WET!!



Good Friends!!