Sneak Peek of Logan's Halloween Costume

Can you guess what it is?

Kids These Days!

Tonight, Bryan whipped up a delicious batch of hot fried scones for dessert. We don't make them very often, so of course, Andrew had to turn up his nose and ask what is in them. We told him that the dough is made from flour, sugar, baking soda, milk, and oil. Then you stretch the dough and deep fry it in oil. They are especially yummy topped with honey.

"Hmmm," Andrew said, "not very healthy." (This coming from the kid who complains at nearly every veggie I put in front of him!)

He then picked up the bottle of honey and examined the label. "So what's the deal with the honey? Did they put in any trans fat?"

WHAT?!!

Time For a Bath!

Me: "Hey Logan, your feet are looking pretty dirty!"
Logan: "They're not dirty!"
Me: "Oh yeah? What's that black stuff under your toenails?"
Logan: "Um....Chocolate?"

The New Family Photographer

Potato Head parts...

...coloring book......fingerprint-covered computer monitor...

I bet you're wondering who took such awesome pictures. There were SEVERAL others, but these were the most recognizable.

Oh, and let's not forget my own personal favorite!

This was taken a millisecond before I jumped up and snatched my camera from Logan's hands. Too late! I guess this is what I get for lingering after lunch to read my scriptures!

Logan looked over my shoulder at the display screen on the camera as I deleted most of his works of art, exclaiming, "Oh, that's a good one!" to every picture. When I was done, he shook his head with a smile and sighed, "I'm really good at taking pichows."

I explained to him for what seemed like the hundredth time this month, "the camera is for Mommy and Daddy ONLY! NOT for Logan!" He calmly folded his arms and looked at me with the most serious expression and said with the deepest yearnings of a three-year-old heart, "Mom, I really need to buy a camera for me, so I can take some pichows." The way he said it was so convincing, that I actually started considering it. Who am I to crush his creative aspirations?!

"...and a phone too," he added. Oh boy. I'm in trouble!

Look Out World...

...HERE COMES HANNAH!

Hannah officially started crawling today! She's been wanting it for a couple weeks now, but couldn't quite figure out how to coordinate her arms and legs just right.

This afternoon, after she pooped through her clothes, I stripped her down and changed her diaper. Then before I could put on a clean outfit, off she went!

(I think I scared her at the end there with all my cheering!)

Diaper Cake

Last week, I made a diaper cake for my friend, Lana, who recently had a baby. I had heard about diaper cakes before, but had never actually seen one until my Mom made one for my sister-in-law this summer. Hers turned out OH SO CUTE, so I wanted to give it a try too.

This was so fun to make! Here is my naked three-tiered cake made with a bag of size 2 diapers and a whole bunch of rubber bands. That's a bottle brush holding the top two layers together.

I kept mine pretty simple, with just receiving blankets to cover the layers and a stuffed froggy as a topper, but you could get as fancy as you like with all sorts of baby items to decorate your faux confection.

On my SIL's cake, my mom went all out with baby spoons, shoes, binkies, hairbows, socks, bottles, teethers, and toys.

You can see my mom's detailed diaper cake-making instructions with pictures on The Thompson Family Tree.

Transformation Tuesday

Our Living Room BEFORE...

(This is about how it looked for two whole years)

...and AFTER We can't take credit for the great paint job; that was already done when we moved in, but it's amazing what a little furniture will do! It could still use a few finishing touches, but it's getting there.

As we mentioned before, Bryan hit the jackpot when he found the couch and chair at a garage sale. After much searching, we finally found a coffee table that we liked (and didn't cost a fortune!) at a local furniture store. The lamps and rug were from Overstock.com.

(Have I mentioned I'm in love with my rug?)

I wanna crawl SO BADLY!

This is hard work!