Messy Face

Strawberry, blueberry Pops

1 cup organic frozen strawberries
1 cup organic frozen blueberries
1 cup water
1 banana (for sweetness)
1 tbsp agave nectar (or to taste)

Whiz together in blender until liquefied. Pour into popsicle cups with sticks and freeze at least 4 hours.

The kids loved these. I should have taken a picture of them both yesterday- they had it all over them like war-paint. Ya know, you leave them alone for just a few seconds!!! I tell ya!

Good Buddies

Birthday Wish List 2006

Ethan's 1st birthday

In lieu of Super E's 5th birthday (can you believe he's going to be 5 already?), I have updated his wish list in case anyone is wondering what to get him. He has been compiling a list in his head and telling me what he'd REALLY like this year. Take a look to get some ideas.

Good News

The house is under contract and our closing date is set for July 27. We are slowly starting to pack and get ready for our big trip to AZ

Here are some pictures of the boys in our mini pool. Yep, this is the best we can do on a hot summers day in the Big D.

P.S. Does anyone know who this dirty orphan child might belong to?

At an art festival

We were kicked out of house yet again by more home shoppers all day Saturday, so we went to another art festival to get out of the house.

Fortunately, all of our house cleaning, rushing the kids out of the house, and sitting out in the heat has paid off. Our counter offer was accepted (yipee!!!) and we are now in our 3rd day of the option period (4 more days to go). Hopefully our home inspection will go well and we'll be on our way to AZ by the end of July! Now, we are getting ready for a massive yard sale. We are liquidating BIG TIME!

Some pictures

Sorry, I haven't posted in a while but blogger has been acting up making it nearly impossible to upload pictures. These are the very first pictures taken on my new camera! Yea!!!!

We finally got an offer on our house yesterday(a bit low) and have given our (very fair) counter offer. Everyone PLEASE keep good thoughts in your head that they will accept it!! We will find out tonight or tomorrow if it's a go!

Kiddley

Loobylu (one of my favorite blog sites) has just started Kiddley. It's a great new blog with tons of great ideas and things to do that are all kid and family related. I'm putting it on my sidebar so check it out sometime!

Here is a picture I haven't shared yet. It's a couple of weeks old. This is where I-guy likes to sit. Sometimes when it's really quiet and I'm busy cooking dinner I'll stop and wonder where he went. It's usually here. He gets up there by himself and just sits and plays. He's eating a raisin in this picture and Ethan like to put this crown on him every once in a while.
For some reason I felt compelled to take a picture of my mosquito bitten finger and share it. I just thought it looked kind of cool. Looks like a perfect TB skin test (in the wrong spot of course). heh, heh.

Notes

Don't ever buy V-smile Pocket Learning System. It was a great gift from my sister for Super-E, while it lasted. It's been broken since March and he got it for Christmas. From what it looks like, it not at the fault of him, but the product is just not made well. It got some horrible reviews on Amazon and here is why: a) It uses up 4 AA batteries in a period of about 3 hours b)the jack to connect to the TV only works if you hold it in a certain way, c) The AC adapter does the same thing and no longer works and d) the cartridges are $20 a pop! Over all it's a waste of money. Now we have a collection of cartridges that are good for nothing!! We're not sure about going through the trouble to get him another because we'll just end up with the same problems. He sure did love it while it lasted though.

Lately Super E has really gotten into cooking shows. We sit and watch them together. He really thinks Rachel Ray is silly and does funny things. The other day she made GORP (trail mix) and he thought that was pretty fan-tas-tic! He's also been wanting to play less on the computer. Hmm.

Another thing he loves is seeing what Shmoo has been eating for lunch every day at the Vegan Lunch Box, which is one of my favorite website. Jennifershmoo (the mom) takes a lot of care to make the most amazing lunches for her little guy every day! She also won the 2006 best blogger award for best food website! If you haven't seen it yet- check it out!! She made some awesome vegan twinkies (twinkies aren't even vegetarian by the way- they may contain beef fat!) She made them using a very cool twinkie kit* and then used the same kit to make vegan corn dog's. Very cool I think!! I promised Super E that we would get him a lunch box like Shmoo's when he starts school in August. He's very excited about that.

*I've looked all over the net for this twinkie kit and can't find it. Bed Bath & beyond used to carry it, but the stores here in Dallas don't have it. If anyone finds this kit, snatch it for us and I'll pay you back :)