Adding a little fall

Maggie helped carry the flowers to the front steps. She suddenly look so big!


She also refuses to sit long enough to take a picture.





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The letter F

Since Mac is now in preschool, he sometimes comes home with assignments (yes, homework in pre-K).  Other times, he comes home with prizes.  A week or so ago he came home with the "Share Bag".  This bag allows the child to bring in 2 show-and-tell items.
Last Monday he came home with the "Letter Bag".  The idea is that you fill the bag with as many items as you can that start with the letter of the week.  The letter last week was F.
We had a good time coming up with ideas, searching for some of them, and filling the bag as best we could.  We came up with a good number of things before letting everyone else on facebook join in on the fun.

There were several ideas that we couldn't use, but we sent the bag back to school filled up with:
flag, football, flowers, firetruck, fork, flashlight, flyswatter, fish (goldfish), fruit snacks, flip-flop, fire extinguisher, finger nail file, and a frog.

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.