Daddy's dinner adventures

Last week Mac and I made bagel pizzas.  This week we tried something I saw on the internet.  If it is on the internet, you can trust it, right?
I saw this and couldn't resist trying it.  Somehow, I don't think Samantha felt the same.
I present "spaghetti stuffed hot dogs"

Mac and Maggie loved this, especially Mac.  I had it as well and thought it was great.  Not 4 star restaurant, but, certainly good enough for the target audience.

Crazy kids

Despite Maggie having strep throat and being pretty pitiful, she still managed to have some fun today.  When we got back from our walk, she insisted that she and Mac put on helmets.  Luckily I was able to get a couple of quick shots because almost as soon as they go on, she wants them off.

Odd?

I'm not sure that this is entirely normal. :) Gotta love these kids and their quirky habits!


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The little chef

Dinner tonight was bagel pizzas and Mac wanted to help. He did a great job (no real surprise) and Maggie screamed her head off because I'm not skilled enough to hold her, help Mac, and cook dinner at the same time.
We all ate everything on our plates. Well, almost...
I'm not sure if you'll be able to tell, but Maggie removed the pepperoni and mushrooms and carefully sorted and stacked those - pepperoni on her right and mushrooms on her left. She loves to sort and group things.


Mac gave his approval saying, "these pizzas are GREAT!"

Mac's surprise

Last night Mac told me "I have a surprise for you (Mom) and Maggie in my room but it's not ready yet."  Just before dinner he said it was ready.  He was so proud and excited about this because he worked on it the night before to get ready for me.

Sorry the video is vertical and a little shaky - I was holding Maggie and keeping her from falling out of her chair.
No, we didn't add music - that was the dinner music that Mac put on just for our special dinner.

First Day of Pre-K

I wanted to do a better job with picture taking for such an exciting occasion, so I used the real camera instead of my phone. Of course that means it took an extra 2 days to get a blog post because the pictures had to come off the camera to the computer.

The upside of the wait time is that we already have a funny school story from Mac. Yesterday during snack time the teacher said that everyone had to sit down and be quiet in order to receive their snacks. A few minutes later the teacher was also eating a snack and Mac asked why she was allowed to have her snack since she wasn't sitting down quietly. She laughed when telling Doug the story so now of course Mac thinks its ok.

 All I can say is "We warned them."

And we're off!

Today we mailed in the initial application for adoption!



We also talked to Mac last night about our adoption plans. We have been talking about adoption and orphans for awhile now, trying to introduce him to the idea generically first. When we told him we were going to adopt his response was something along the lines of "that's cool, I want a brother, can I have dessert?"

Tonight, though, he was very sweet in his bedtime prayers, praying for the orphan that we will adopt and that God will help us go to...where was that?...Ethiopia to get them.


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