Ketchup Mom

Today I made Kaden a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch. He ate about half of it and then said ketchup please mom. I must admit I thought that ketchup with a ham and cheese sandwich would be disgusting and ignored his request and kept on with whatever I was doing at the time. After he made this same request about 4 times, each with increasing urgency I decided to comply. I got out a small plate and squirted a small pile of ketchup on it. After I put the plate down in front of him he looked at me with the most annoyed look and said "MOM... hot dog???" oh of course silly me I should have known that when he was demanding ketchup with his sandwich he was really asking for a hot dog instead. Now I will know for next time. A few nights ago Chris and I were laying in bed with Kaden, I leaned over and gave him a kiss which he wiped off with the back of his hand and said "GROSS MOM" I almost cried. He is 2 for crying out loud.

Dear Kaden,
You are 2 years old. I am your mom. I am allowed to cover you in kisses all I want right now and you are not allowed to wipe them off or call them gross. When you are 20 we can discuss this matter again but for now this is the law.

Love,
Mom

Apparently kisses for Taycee aren't so gross

This is how they look at each other most of the day. This look usually comes before they are about to do something really nice like give a kiss or a hug or do something really naughty like steal a toy and tackle the other one to the ground.

My babies that aren't babies anymore.

Dear Taycee,

You slept in your own bed last night for the first time in a month. You didn't wake up once from 8 pm til 7 am. Thank You. Now if you will please do me one more favor and stop growing up. I am not going to have a baby for a long while sill so I need you to stay little and sweet and cute for a few more years.

Thanks!

Mom

This is the newest Taycee expression. She will throw her binki or her cup and then look at you with her hands up and say "where go?"

Love em'

This is Kaden sending me off to my first day of school. He really is a crack up these days. When he is suppose to be asleep but he wants to get up and play he will sneak to the outside of the door of whatever room we are in and throw things in to the room. I have no idea why he does this or what he is trying to accomplish but it is pretty funny. All of the sudden small puzzle pieces or binkies or toys will come sailing into our room from out of no where.

He has also started to quote movies. His new favorite is Happy Feet. One of the penguins says "I knew it" all excited with his finger in the air and then hangs his head and says " it was all a lie" Kaden does this several times a day. He finds himself quite amusing.

Kaden has also taken a liking to a small electronic cat. It is the kind that walks and makes noise. It hasn't had batteries for a very long time but Kaden carries it around and hugs it. He pets its fur and asks it if it is ok. Sometimes he will set it on the ground and say "come here kitty kitty" it is pretty cute.

First day of school... it is true, I am a student again. Full time. After one week I have decided it is do-able. Hard but do-able. My two energetic children take most of my day as it is.. adding in classes and homework make each day a juggling act. BUT I am doing it and I am enjoying my classes so that's something.

Sunday I decided to make Can't Leave em Alone Bars which are fabulous. I got out the white cake mix added in my eggs and oil and started stirring. As always I took a taste of the batter and immediately stopped stirring. The cake mix was not white... it was lemon. How in the world did a lemon cake mix get in a white cake box? Well I couldn't continue with my recipe because lemon cake definitly would not go well with my chocolate fudge center so I started to contemplate what I would do next. I couldn't make a cake because I had already ruined it with the eggs and oil I had put it. I decided I would invent something new. I opened my cooking cupboard and pulled out some flour and powdered sugar. Then I looked in the fridge and saw a can of whipped cream, this peaked my interest so I pulled it out as well. Chris was watching all of this with some curiosity wondering what I was going to make. What I did next about made his eyes bug. I shook the can of whipping cream and then squirted about a 6 inch pile on top of my cake batter. I really really wish I had had a camera at this time Chris literally about fell over. "What are you going to do with that" "You can't bake that now that you squirted all that whip cream in it" "What were you thinking" He thought the situation was quite comical. I told him not to worry that I had it under control. He said " what are you going to call them? Who in the heck thought that would work bars" he thinks he is really funny. I added some flour and sugar to my batter and decided to make them cookies. the problem was I couldn't get the batter as firm as I would have liked it so I decided to roll them in powdered sugar before I put them in the over. I slid a tray of 24 cookies into the over at 350 for 13 minutes and this is what came out....

In Chris's words " THESE ARE AMAZING" He loved them. He ate about 15 of them before the night was over. I have decided to name them lemon puffs. So if any of you ever end up with a white cake box with lemon cake inside... give these a try. :) And have people around when you squirt the whip cream in... it makes for a great reaction.