It Must Be a Boy Thing

Joshua has learned how to make himself burp. Last week sometime he had a big belch, and it triggered some kind of knowledge about how to manufacture one. So now, he thinks it's funny to do it. As I write this he is practicing burping - one must perfect the art, you know.

Heavenly Chocolate - Can you even breathe?

Leah's Yummy Cupcakes

Leah and I were watching the Food Network and Giada was on making her delicious food - as usual. We always feel inspired by watching the Food Network, but Leah was particularly taken with the yumminess of these. She was so excited to bake something, so we bought the ingredients, and the next day, we baked them. They look just like Giada's! We were so impressed with ourselves that we had to take a picture! Don't they look fantastic?! They're cupcakes that you make from a brownie mix with some extra special ingredients. They were really like brownies in cupcake form, but were still super yummy! We also learned a new frosting recipe - and I love to learn to make new frostings.

Happy Birthday, Joshua!

Today is Joshua's 4th birthday! We love his happy disposition, squeezy hugs, and so much more. Over the past two weeks, he has decided he loves to sing, and lately you can hear him singing the Star Wars theme song pretty much every where he goes. He has always loved to adopt different identities for dramatic play. His most recent character is Luke Skywalker. It's amazing that, after all these years, little boys are still pretending to be Luke and saving the universe.

Here is a picture of the birthday cake we had for him on Monday, and some of his presents. It's a long story, but we celebrated his birthday on Monday instead of today, because Wednesdays are so incredibly busy & he was having a hard time dealing with the fact that there were presents in the house that he would have to wait 2 days to have. Bottom line... it isn't worth the hyperness and upset that is a small child on his birthday. And I didn't want everyone to have to endure two days of upset just so he could have his material belongings on a certain day. I figured that his birthday is about celebrating him as a person, not about getting presents & this was a perfect opportunity to teach that. He might not have learned that lesson, but our older kids did.

Today, we'll have Auntie Suzanne over for lunch and have some ice cream -keeping it low key.