Fires!

James loves when the weekly grocery ads come, so he can make a fire. He has never made an actual fire, but getting it ready seems to make his day. He usually tares up everything, but after making his birthday paper chain we had some scraps, and some that weren't really scraps and he cut them up and carefully piled them up. I accidentally got something too close to his fire and he told me that it was hot and that I needed to get a stick to get it. He knows his fire etiquette. James has never seemed to mind the fact that he's making this "fire" on the kitchen table or the living room carpet, but man if something falls into it or you try to move it, you are going to burn yourself.

BLT Sandwiches

For dinner tonight I wasn't really ready since we usually eat between 5:30 and 6:00 and when I walked around the corner to find my kids eating sprinkles because "I'm hungry, can we have dinner?" -James. So I open the fridge and then the freezer and they are both a little empty. Gotta think of something fast and something the kids will eat. I started going through the meat and found bacon and since James considers this a food group this should work. And we all know that Logan considers tomatoes a food group, so we ran with BLTs. Logan ate the tomatoes faster then I could cut them up!
I put bacon and lettuce on James sandwich and immediately the lettuce was on my plate. The bacon kept falling out of his sandwich and he kept adding it on. After countless pieces of bacon being added to his sandwich I cut him off and he ate his sandwich until he ran out of bacon. Half a sandwich left!

Logan got bacon and tomatoes on his sandwich and guess what the bacon hit the floor!

In the OVEN?

Kids do the funniest things. You never know where you might find your keys or their bottles, although in my house its kinda the phones and the vacuum attachments. Things just have a way of always surprising you! Logan's newest thing is that he loves playing in the oven and the cups. He is so proud of himself when I walk into the room and the oven is full of cups and tupperware.

I walked into the kitchen and he ran to the oven and took out this green bowl. I had hopes that maybe he had learned that it wasn't OK, but instead...

he was proud! Stinker!

Almost there!

I started refinishing my glider about a week ago, sewing a little here and a little more there. I am seeing an almost complete project! My mom picked me up the Velcro yesterday so I could finish the pieces that I had already finished sewing. Here's my empty chair...

Now remember this is my first time refinishing a chair. Its hard work! It's not perfect, but it will look good while I sit there for hours and hours everyday.

Wall Hanging

About 2 moths ago I realized I couldn't find my favorite nursery bedding. I had been watching it at Pottery Barn for months and as each piece would go on sale I would buy it until I had the whole set...well since I can't find that I figured I would just start over again; I've got lots of time on my hands, right? Well the fabric sat and sat and sat until now. I have started James in preschool to help with his social skills and need to a set schedule which has given me a little extra time to work on such things to which I feel is a life saver. I love Pottery Barn Kids and Land of Nod and have been able to pull a lot of inspiration from them. This is the top half of a wall hanging I started that I saw in the Land of Nod catalog a few months ago and fell in love with it. Making it however has turned into an experience.

These are completely unfinished. Just cut and ironed. I will just do a simple top stitch around the edges and call it a day. In the catalog it was cut strips instead of the squares like I have done. I just don't consider myself to be a quilter and it was way beyond my level of B.S. (and my mom's). As I look at this I don't want it to be exactly square or even by any means, but I did want it to be a little center, may have to go back to the ironing board! Tell me what you think!

The crib bedding will be made out of this same material with the green viney one as the base. So far I only have plans of making the bumper and the skirt, but depending on how much time and fabric I have I may try a sheet. Looks scary!

Too small?

The past 3 weeks Logan has been falling out of bed which is not a big deal when its a crib mattress and its on the floor. But this unzipping his jammies is still fairly new. You can't really see it from this angle, but his bum is on the floor. Seems so uncomfortable! How do kids do that? I have been wanting to pickup a twin mattress, but haven't had the means or the time to do so. I just want something like a foam mattress since this is a toddler bunk bed the top bunk is shorter then Logan and he already has to bend to get into bed. One of these days. Until then we will just sleep half on and half off the bed!

Tomatoes

My Logan loves tomatoes. I bought a little container of tomatoes for salads this morning and I threw away the empty container before sitting down at the computer tonight. I mean this kid loves tomatoes. I caught him sneaking tomatoes after naps. He had pulled the container out of the fridge, grabbed his water cup from the table and was filling his cup with tomatoes. He was one happy boy though. Its funny that this morning I caught James sneaking cookies and I catch Logan sneaking tomatoes when the cookies were more easily accessible.

Creamy Pesto Tortellini

By the time I thought about dinner it was too late for what I had planned. So while picking up James from preschool, dropping off the recycling, and picking up a Dora the Explorer movie from the library I had to think of something quick and simple. I have had a creamy pesto at restaurants, but never tried to make it. It wasn't like theirs, but it was tasty!

Creamy Pesto Tortellini

1 pkg. refrigerated 3 Cheese Tortellini

1 5 oz. container of your favorite Pesto

1/4 cup Heavy Whipping Cream

1 small Tomato, diced

Parmesan Cheese, if desired

Cook the noodles according to packaging and drain. Place back into the pot add pesto and heavy whipping cream, stir until well coated 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat add diced tomatoes and serve. My boys love anything with noodles, so this was a real winner tonight.

There were other recipes on line that suggested making a white sauce and adding the pesto in the same fashion, but I didn't want to have to think. I believe, however, that it would have been much more creamy if done with a white sauce instead.

Because he's so darn cute!

Logan at lunch talking about his noodles. He loves pesto!

Sunday Pictures

James needed some family pictures for preschool this week and since we don't really have any that we have agreed on I thought I would attempt some this morning. It is not easy taking your own pictures. Seems like the boys will smile super big and then by the time the picture is taken they have moved on to picking their noses or hitting each other. I looked super cheesy, but they were looking pretty cute!

This was the boys getting ready for the shot! I love that Logan is reading a DVD insert like its a newspaper. He was also talking, obviously reading us the news!

Accidentally had the timer set on this. It was really sweet until 2 seconds before the flash went. Logan wasn't sure having James hand around his neck was necessary.