Experiment in The Kitchen

It is that time of year that we must make and devour exquisite treats made from the puree of a certain member of the squash family. Daddy's Favorite is Pumpkin Roll. My aunt made this delicious treat and gave my mommy hope that she could do it too. (If you don't know my mommy well, she is domestically handicapped. Honestly, she burned no-bake-cookies. Seriosly handicapped.) Since I am obviously Marvelous, I volunteered to assist her.

Do see that even though I am baking I am wearing posh accessories and showing off my exquisite manicure. You can never be too fancy.

I am definitely skilled in the measuring arena.
Oh, the aroma is to die for.

It was truly delicious. Follow the link at the top for this scrumptious treat!

A Sad Day For Mommy, A Day Of Joy For The Family

So that all may now know. Mommy is at work for the very last time tonight. It has been a decision that has taken a lot of time, thought, and prayer. But something we think is best for our whole family. (Really Ryker and I are pretty selfish and we want her to stay home and stop going to work to play with other cute babies.)

Snow is falling all around

So there is a little song we have been singing lately,

Leaves are falling all around,

On the rooftops on the ground.

Leaves are falling on my nose,

On my head and hands and toes.

We have been singing it a lot lately, it is Fall right? But this morning Mommy woke me up singing another version.

Snow is falling all around . . .

What!!!

Flashback Friday: ARGH Me Matey

Recently, my parent's started noticing my eyes would start to wander. No, not the eye wander I gets when I no longer want to pay any attention to them because they are boring old people and blah blah blah blah blah. But the type of wandering that is caused by weak eye muscles. So on goes the patch! I wasn't too sure what to think of the patch at first, but they convinced me it was cool by talking like pirates, make hooks with their hands, and singing Pirate Shanties. After several renditions of Pirates Don't Change Diapers, they finally had me convinced. Then I remembered . . .

I am already a Pirate! I was granted pirateship and given my pirate name by my favorite pediatric resident at Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Little Shark Tooth Alena returns.

It's a Boy Thing

Sometimes a man just gets plumb tuckered out.

Mom is Great . . . She Gives Me Chocolate Cake

Well not exactly chocolate cake, it was donut. But still, the idea of getting a donut for breakfast . . . PURE BLISS!!! I have been tortured with things like sweet potatos, strained spinach, and other unspeakable wannabe food items for too long. Besides I used my amazing negotiating skills and discussed the nutritional benefits of a donut. There are eggs and flour in donuts. Do not those two ingredients make up most breakfast food anyways. My logic baffled her and I of course won. (It also helped that she was exceptionally tired from having to stay up late with Michelle and get up all night to check on at least one us and then get up early with me since I decided to give Daddy an appropriate off to work send off.)

My true American Breakfast.

Waiting for Mommy to really wake up an discover what she had agreed too.

Realizing that she had no strength left to stop me, thus allowing me to enjoy this cakey goodness.

No Longer a Hippy

I have been enjoying growing out my hair. I have been envisioning myself as Samson, and my hair was the symbol of my strength. Then one day one of Mom and Dad's friends came over, and he looked at me and made some comment having to do with hippies and long hair. Samson cool, hippies, hmm.

So one morning after our bath Daddy told Mommy he was giving her the chance to cut my hair otherwise he was going to buzz it off himself. He was not go to have a hippy for a son.

My forlorn face when I realized I was about to have hair "shortened".
Not so sure why my mother took this picture, but she is weird like that.

Daddy confirming that his son's hair was in great need of a trim.

The "after" look, sigh. I was trying to be happy.

Then I saw all this hair on the counter and realized, I was glad no one had resorted to calling me "Goldilocks" that would have been traumatizing.

So I decided it was all worth it.

Happy Halloween

In keeping with tradition of this blog, We wish you a Happy Halloween, and hope you all enjoy your treats in the days (hopefully not just minutes) to come. From the sweetest Fairy Princess and the trusty law-enforcing Sheriff Woody.

Boo at the Zoo

We have been trying out some new things in hopes of finding some great family traditions. Our super awesome aunt and uncle told us about Boo at the Zoo this year. WOW, it was awesome!

This is the first little Halloween creature we found this year. The cutest little Winnie the Pooh ever.

Now we have SPOOKY Pooh-acula.

What a cute little Mommy and Pumpkin Ryker.

We also discovered the absolute joy of the Merry-Go-Round. Why oh why have I never seen one of these before.

Just a bunch of silly parents holding us, their adorable little Trick or Treaters

Now remeber this was a Zoo so here are some of the animals.

Yummy Pumpkin

Lions, ROOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!

This was definitely an awesome outing, something that is definitely going to be put on the list of annual family traditions.

Pumpkin Carving

So in keeping with traditions of this Holiday, we commenced with the annual pumpkin carving.

Just doing my Vanna pose. Digging out the pumpkin guts, don't you just love the word guts!

Tracing the image so we could carve the coolest pumpkin EVER!

Doing my best to help Daddy stay in the lines.

Doing the carving. I had to work really hard to keep Daddy from messing up.

The end result. (Mommy didn't realize she had set the camera on "night" function so that is why everything is so blurry, but we just tell her that it adds to the spooky effect.)

Vroom Vroom!!!

My Daddy knows what a real man wants. Adrenaline rush.

THANK YOU DADDY!

Just a Bunch of Pots and Pans

Since learning to crawl and walk, I have decided to familiarize myself with my home. There have been certain places that my Mommy and Daddy haven't really introduced. But I have discovered that they were just trying to hide some of the best toys ever and the coolest hiding place in the world.

Just making more room for myself.

Do you know that you can make some of the awesomest music with these drums.

A world of discoveries Awaits me.

Party Number 2 For Birthday Number 1

It is tradition in my Mommy's family for people to have two birthday parties. One on their actual Birthday with family, and then another one earlier or later with their friends. I am not going to complain about having two parties. Two days for everyone to be focused on me, why not.
I was too excited for the party to start that I started unwrapping presents before people had even arrived. The sound of paper shredding, sigh.

I even got a whole other cake. An ice cream cake to boot!

I was trying to be a little bit more reserved this time.

But decided against that.

Michelle enjoying a bit of ice cream herself, yeah, I consider her one of my friends.

It was sooooooooo good.

I did enjoy it it quite a bit. Good thing I don't have to wear my 1st Birthday shirt again. I am not sure that even Spray and Wash can repair it. But it was so fun and so good. It was so awesome to have so many friends come over and celebrate my first year. Thank You All SOOOO Much!!!