Ah! Sorry. It's been two weeks! This is a super super super long post...but after you read it you'll be all caught up with us.
Coming up this week is Stone Soup at Cole's school so I'll be busy preparing Cole's portion and contribution to the soup. We have to provide veggies, barley, and a chicken. In addition to that....last week we did the grocery shopping for the class. We provide the snack two times a year. Imagine this: providing food for 24 (24!) children for a WEEK! Holy cow. My cart was full at Winco and the hardest part is really deciding what portions are appropriate and how much is too much...not enough....and we must have something from each food group. Hello?....does anyone else think that is "totally intense" so Carter and I did the best we could with selecting good wholesome food and then called it "good" and delivered our car load of groceries. These children must be hungry.
So keeping with the FOOD topic....(isn't it all about the food?!)
On Friday Cole had a special Peruvian feast at school and they requested that the children dress up for the celebration. Here is Cole. He loooooves dressing up in his "wedding clothes" more than anything. This was a week in the making and we carefully ironed his clothes and shined his shoes prior to the Friday event.
Here is Carter...he is not really amused...he's layered up and wearing his fuzzy bear hat courtesy of Grandma Trudo. We are in route to school on a cold morning.
These are cute. They show the classroom and the children sitting nicely. The children set the tables and then sat patiently and waited to be served their feast. Cole was so excited to see me but I couldn't stay for the meal. It was only for the children.
That brings us to this weekend. Chris worked an extra shift on Saturday so the kids were pretty ancy by Sunday. We spent most of the weekend at home just relaxing and doing laundry watching movies. We also made cookies. We went to an awesome baker's paradise on Saturday with my Mom and Whitney. All sorts of great pans and mixes...anyways...we made cookies together....and Cole was pretty much in charge of the camera...so he took some pretty funny shots....(I deleted the photos he took of my behind...he thought that was hilarious!)
OK and finally. Here's Mr. Carter in action. He's "helping" me here.....with the laundry with the lovely baskets and then...sat down to have some ba ba. I know.... he just loves it so much...and he just barely started with it at 12 months when I stopped nursing him...and he loooooves it.....we'll wean him off it....sooner than later.....he's just so happy!
-nuff said
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