Two nights before the end of school, Matt woke up yelling for me about an hour after he’d gone to bed. As per usual, I sprinted up to his room.
‘Mom! I need to do my birthday with my class and you can make cookies for me to take in!’
{me, staring at his like he’d sprouted another head} ‘Uh, okaaayy. But your birthday is in August…’
‘But we can celebrate it in school this week!!’
{me, backing away slowly} ‘Alright, I’ll talk to your teacher tomorrow’ and thinking dude, you seriously woke up to tell me that 2 days before the end of school?!
Come to find out, yes, they do encourage the kids to celebrate their birthdays with the class when it falls during non-school months. So, since Matt wanted to take cookies, cookies I would bake!
My original thought was a plate of cookies. Then I thought, why not individual bags. Then I thought, man, that’s boring!! For some reason my mind went to those little cookie cups they sell at the cookie place at the mall – you know, cookies filled with frosting or chocolate? Why not try to make those?!
I broke out the Googles and found that most people use pre-made …
Cookie Cups & Changes
Bedtime stories
Like most kids, my boys have their favorite books that they want us to read to them {over and over and over and over….}. Matt has been getting into chapter books lately, which is truly a nice change of pace. We started with Phineas & Ferb, but have since moved on to Captain Underpants. I always rolled my eyes at those underpants books, but they really are quite silly and fun. The best part is that when he starts reading chapter books himself, he can read those (well, he could probably read most of it now, but by the time he’s really able, he’ll get more of the jokes).
There have been many wonderful books over the years, as well as some that I simply hide try to avoid. By far, my favorite board books have always been Sandra Boynton’s. Her latest addition to the group is Fifteen Animals and Preston laughs hysterically at the end, every. single. time. (Me too).
Some of my other favorites are by Amy Krouse Rosenthal – we recently added Duck! Rabbit! to our collection, and she is the author of my beloved littles: Little Pea, Little Hoot and Little Oink. Cute …
First t-ball game!
Matt walked in a parade on last Saturday morning (which he was nervous about) and then played his first t-ball game in the afternoon. He did a great job!! Watching 5 & 6 year olds play is hilarious, since really, none of them have a clue what they are doing and they run all the way across the field to go after the ball….so it ends up there are 6 kids trying to get one ball and somehow, they all end up on the ground. hehe.
Saturday at our house
Today was absolutely gorgeous – low 70s and sunny with a slight breeze. Springtime in Michigan doesn’t get any better than that!
Our first task today was to go pick up my car from the fix it up place – even though we had no place to go on Friday or this morning, not having my car around was hurting me! No change to just slip out for awhile or go on an adventure all spur of the moment like!
We’ve decided, since 4 of our main bushes in our front landscaping up and died over the winter, that would would start fresh (we didn’t do the original landscaping, and have wanted to redo it for 7 years!). Starting fresh means that we need to dig out the old and prepare for new. We got down and dirty for a few hours doing that while the kids played around us with the neighbor kids. A good time was had by all. hehe
Matt was pretty upset about having to come inside, even though the neighbors were leaving and we’d been out ALL DAY, so I decided to take him out to dinner and shopping; just the two of us. We went to Cracker …
