Little Baker

 

The nephews stopped by for a couple of hours when grandma had to take care of some business. 

Tomorrow is his momma's birthday, so we decided to whip a quick treat for his momma. Magic bars it was!

He couldn't wait for the butter to melt to begin the layering process. 

 

When I bake with him, he is good with picture directions (like pics of eggs or oil) I usually measure items and let him mix or assemble!!

He likes checking the oven to see if they are done too.

His momma and my momma say I have a lot of patience to bake with littles !!

I say if you don't let them ever try, they won't be able to learn and experience it. 

Best Christmas gift

My nephews are a creative crew.

Blue + Green = BREEN

I had the opportunity to watch my nephews for a couple days this past week. One of the fun things we were tasked to do, was dye the Easter eggs. I didn't care too much, because at this point we were at their house, so it wasn't my kitchen they were making a mess in.  There were like 8 colors in the kit we opened.. We opened the small packet with only 3 colors in it..  so the one in the middle that looks like orange.. or maybe even yellow.. yea.. not ... turned out to be GREEN.. .. who'd a thunk

                                            

So the little guy was entertained by watching us dye the eggs, but he also got his first crack at a banana,in the peel like a monkey, who'd have thought he might try to eat the peel..  Well I think after his first bite into the peel & realizing it wasn't tasty, he stuck to eating the banana. He had fun peeling it on his own, like a big boy too.

So back to the Eggs. We had Blue, Green & PINK. ( eww that's for girls )

Can you tell what his favorite colors were!

It's also very hard to wait a long time for the colors to get dark.

So once they were done with the blues & greens. I posed the question, what would happen if you put a blue one in the green cup.. He quickly answers well it'll be BREEN.

The package also came w/ those shrinky wrappers to put around them.. The eggs were too fat, so we had to do some manipulating, but made them work. I wasn't too sure on dipping eggs in hot boiling water with a 3 year old, so the package said we could use the hair dryer.. Since E, says the hairdryer can only be used in the bathroom. We had to improvise. Everyone so far has liked our egg holder too(hey a little ingenuity here)  notice we only have one casualty(so far) from the dyeing process.

So after dying, cooling, hair drying, shrinky dinking.. we ended up with this.

(Note: Breen one) to the right of the empty hole. Above it is Blue w/ Pink..

Oh wait, but the package has Stickers, and what 3 year old can't resist stickers.

This is what happened when we stickered them.....

apparently eggs shouldn't be stickered.

Must have been a lot of fun, cuz he wants to know when they can go to the store & get more eggs.. mom was sad she missed out on the fun.. so she might just use up the 5 fizzy colors left.

What are you supposed to be doing..

I am about sick of working on accounting/taxes/spreadsheets/bookkeeping.

So I decided to take a little break & upload pictures from my camera. ( I got a new one for xmas)
We have one of those big honking fancy camera's with different lenses, etc, but that's too big to have everyday.. & since I still lack modern technology, (smart phone) a small thin camera works for me. I keep it in my purse and can pull it out and snap anywhere, anytime. I notice that I do a lot of driving and taking pictures; well while stopped at a light. I'm sure people in other cars wonder what the heck is flashing in my car..

So here's what I found on the camera... some pictures of B, when he was at my house, playing 2 weeks ago. His brother was at soccer practice, so he came over to hang out.

 

 

 B does not like to nap for anyone except for me & daycare. Wonder why? He slept here for 2 1/2 hours. Why would you nap at grandma's when aunt t-t will let you rest in her king size bed. I do have a port a crib, but he will only sleep in it at night.. so naps.. are in the big bed.  Don't worry I have a camera on him, so if he moves I can see him. I also have room darkening shades* cuz hubs sleeps during the day often, because of his snowplowing at night.  I think the kiddo gets in there & sees dark & is like oh well it's time to sleep.

 

my pet peeve, don't tailgate salt trucks.. it's just a recipe for disaster.. one of my pics from the road.

2nd pet peeve of the month, people without working headlights... ( haven't got any good pictures of that yet )  A little bit tricker to get.