The Dances

Big Kid Underwear

Christian — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:50:00 +0000

Lilly is so excited about her big kid underwear. She had been keeping her diapers dry for a couple of weeks now so we finally took the plunge. It’s amazing how little trash we generate without 4-6 diapers per day. Awesome! We are two days in and no accidents… yet.

I am Victorious!

Jenny — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:59:33 +0000

Taxes are done! The damage… minimal. We’ve finally got things as balanced as is possible. Helps to have a very straight-forward tax situation. No free loans to the federal government here!
Federal taxes = owe $19
State taxes = refund of $164

And in case anyone is interested… I always file online with H&R Block and this year I participated in the Money Crashers Online Tax Filing Giveaway (an Apple iPad). Who knows, I might win.

Growing Up

Jenny — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:34:05 +0000

Growing up… but not out!

(Lilly at 4 months old)

(Lilly at 38 months old… wearing the same dress.)

Sometimes you just have to grill

Christian — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:22:55 +0000

(Taken after the gigantic snow storms. Thankfully most of this snow is now gone!)

3 Year Old Eating Habits

Jenny — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:32:12 +0000

Maybe food tastes better upside down?

Valentines Day Dinner

Christian — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:16:16 +0000

As a Valentine’s Day treat for Jennifer, I cooked her up a special meal.

Two roasted Cornish Game Hens with garlic and rosemary,
Italian seasoned rice,
Asparagus with sliced almonds and Parmesan cheese
and as a desert Mango pie with homemade vanilla ice cream.

So after spending most of the day in the kitchen preparing this feast my 3 year old daughter looked at the table… and asked for a sandwich.

Valentines day dinner

Mango Pie

Wooden Baby Blocks

Jenny — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:13:50 +0000

Here is my latest artistic experiment for a friend’s baby shower.

This was a fun project, but of course it took much longer than I expected it would and there were a lot of tedious/repetitive steps.

Finding suitable images - thank you Google images and all the wonderful coloring book pages out there.
Tracing these images in the right size for my blocks
Tracing over my first drawings onto the blocks using carbon paper
Carefully drawing over the lines on the blocks with the wood burning tool

How do you think it turned out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ3f6UCt3H4

New Hair Cut

Jenny — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:12:55 +0000

I’m catching up on recent bloggable moments… it’s been a few weeks now, but I’ve got a new shorter style. Fun, but now I’ve got to maintain it. What!? I need a haircut more than once a year?

We’ve Got Mail

Jenny — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:08:44 +0000

We’ve got mail. Big big mail. Somehow I don’t think the mailman enjoyed delivering these. It was all I could do to get them in the house and they had wheels! What’s even more amazing is that it only cost $30 to deliver one of these from Iraq to Virginia. Lilly really enjoyed these boxes because that meant uncle Curt was coming home soon! She couldn’t stop talking about that.

Pi Day

Jenny — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:52:33 +0000

Happy Pi Day everyone! We normally like to celebrate with lots of friends, lots of pie, and recitation of pi to the farthest possible decimal point (maybe 10 for us), but it just didn’t work out this year. This pi day is special though… it’s official. Happy very first National Pi Day. (Thank you Congress.) And we promise we’ll be ready for it next year.