Yard Crew

Nana and Pa put Colin and Emma to work cleaning up after the lawn had been mowed. They both had a great time sweeping the sidewalk!

Silly Boys

I'm not sure what Rich is trying to teach Colin here, but they were having fun! Maybe I need to get some beads for them!

Cupcakes

Nana sent home the extra cupcakes, frosting and sprinkles with the kids and they had a great time decorating them while they waited for dinner to get ready! Colin just puts it all on there as much as possible (if I would let him he would put all of the sprinkles on one cupcake)! While Emma decorates hers ever so carefully placing each sprinkle one at a time! Both are turning out to be great helpers in the kitchen! Now if they could just reach the sink to do the dishes!

Helping Daddy

Emma just had to help Rich put the lawn mower up! I can tell that Rich was really thinking that now he can have the kids mow the yard! Nice try honey, it is still yours to mow! They are still just a little bit to short to help out!!

Colin's New Room

So Colin was getting tired of his room that way it was, my first clue was that he and Emma started pealing the boarder down! So Rich and I spent Labor Day Weekend repainting his room. Colin really really wanted his room to be painted red, but I just couldn't do that. For those of you that have seen his room know how small it is, I really just don't think that red will work in that room. So he got to pick between blue or green for his room. He chose blue, I know what you are thinking blue isn't much better than red but we did not paint the whole room blue! We did go with a nice dark shade of blue on 1 wall and the other 3 walls are a stone color. It turned out really nice and we chose to make the blue wall the one behind the door so that if you are just walking down the hall you would never know that the wall was blue.

We also put Colin's bed against that wall (per his request) so that when he bumps into the wall at night it won't wake sissy up!

His room turned out very well and the most important thing is he loves it!

Before

After

Making Mints

Who knew that Colin would be so into helping me make cream cheese mints for my friend Michelle T. I really thought that he would just ignore what I was doing and watch TV in the front room, but nope he was much more interested in watching me make the mints and then trying to help make them. I let him help me make a few, I would roll the dough into a ball and put it into the bowl of sugar where Colin would roll it in sugar and then put it into the mold for me. Next we would push the ball into the mold and then turn it out onto a piece of wax paper. He thought this was just the greatest thing ever! He was a great helper until I caught him licking his fingers in between rolling each ball in the sugar! That was enough help from him for the night! He did find that I had cowboy molds so we are planning to make some mints for him later on that he can do all by himself!

Bedtime

Emma is doing well with her toddler bed, but we are having issues with her sippy cup at night. When she stays with Nana and Pa for the weekend they put her down for bed without a sippy cup, but for some strange reason that just will not work for us. Emma had been having apple juice before bedtime, but I really didn't want her to have juice over night so I had Rich fill her cup with water. She was fine with the cup until she tried to take a drink then she screamed and cried "APPLE JUICE" at the top of her lungs until we gave her a cup with apple juice in it. Then she didn't even want to drink it when we gave it to her, she just wanted it next to her in bed. Sometimes she is such a little stinker! The next morning she hadn't even drank any of it!!! But I still love her!