Maybe I could be a Little bit Martha

Just a short post with a couple of pictures. I'm so proud of myself! I made these little turkey cookies for Waylon's Thanksgiving Picnic at school. They were pretty easy (wait, who am I kidding....the assembly was easy but the decorating part was a little challenging for me). Some of them looked a little "special," but they were tasty & the kids seemed to enjoy them!

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

48 sugar cookies (3 inches)

1 package (12 ounces) chocolate & marshmallow cookies

1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting

1 cup vanilla frosting

Yellow & red food coloring

1) Using a serrated knife, cut 1/2 in. from 1 side of 24 sugar cookies. Using a sharp knife, cut marshmallow cookies in half vertically. Spread chocolate frosting over the bottom of each marshmallow cookie half; align cut edges of a marshmallow cookie & a sugar cookie, and press together to form each turkey body & feathers.

2) Spread chocolate frosting over the cut edges of each turkey; position and attach near the back edge of a whole sugar cookie.

3) Cut a small hole in the corner of a small plastic bag. Insert a round pastry tip; fill bag with 3/4 cup chocolate frosting. Pipe a neck and head on each turkey.

4) Tint 1/2 cup vanilla frosting yellow & 1/2 cup red. With a round pastry tip and yellow frosting, add eyes, beaks & legs. With a round tip and red frosting, pipe tail feathers & wattle (the recipe I found called the wattle a snood...I prefer wattle)

Store in refrigerator.

I know it's too late for Thanksgiving, but I thought these were super cute and maybe someone might want to use it for next year!

Response to Carrie's Terrible 2's

After reading Carrie's blog about AC and her terrible two's, I was inspired to post on the latest shenanigans of the Rodgers' boys. A little disclaimer first; I promise that I do watch my kids, but boy are they sneaky & FAST!!!

OK, story #1:

If Your Child Eats 43 Vitamins, it's Scary, but He'll Probably Be OK

(Nice title, huh? I should really write books, or maybe just titles...moving right along)

So, the other day, I gave the boys their vitamins, 2 Cars gummies for Waylon, 2 Nemo gummies for Wyatt. Let it be noted that I usually ALWAYS put the vitamins right back up in the cabinet after dispensing. Except this time. They were both playing with the (child-proof) bottles (I know, I know, call DCF on me now!) re-enacting the scene watched previously on Wonder Pets of the baby chimp with the banana in his ear. I was making coffee & waffles, discussing with them who wanted what for breakfast. The conversation behind me is not any response to my breakfast questions, but this instead, "Baby timp (chimp), get biamins (vitamins) out you ear. Now do you hear me?!?" I turn around to see Waylon with chipmunk cheeks and a Lightning McQueen gummy laying on the floor. The rest went something like this: "Waylon James!!! Give me that bottle!! Did you eat all those vitamins?!?!?" "*gulp* *big grin* I eat biamins Mommy!" So I call Peds after hours that doesn't have a nurse or doctor on the line till 8am (it's now about 7:56) and they advise me to call 911. Ummm....noooo.... I may not be a genius nurse about anything else but birthing babies, and I really don't claim the genius on that either, but something about calling 911 just didn't seem like quite the right thing to do at the time, so I called Poison Control and was reassured (after reciting all vitamin ingredients twice, and making an estimation about exactly how many he ate to which I'm thinking "I don't know, the bottle was almost full, there's now 7 left and I can't ask Waylon because he can barely count to 10, much less 60" So between me & the PC guy, we guessed he had ingested about 43) that Waylon would be fine, just may have a little abdominal upset and rainbow stools for a few days. We were also advised to not give him any vitamins for about a month. Imagine that.

Story #2:

If You're on the Computer, Your Kids Will Waste a Lot of Juice

I was on the computer (bet you didn't see that coming) and had made the boys some PB&J and given them their juice boxes. I get back in the kitchen and find these (no I did not move the same box around and take pictures. This is all for real).

The 2 originals on the table

1 on the counter
2 on the little table 1 in the fridge

Yes, they all have straws in them (which Ms. Rita, Waylon's OT would be super proud of that he did himself) and were drank out of, but none completely empty. Seriously, that was EVERY juice box that was in the fridge just randomly placed around my kitchen. In the same incident, when I went to get wipes to clean their hands & faces from the PB&J, I found Flo hanging out in the wipe box.

Story #3:

Letting Your Child Play in Your Purse in Toys-R-Us Really isn't a Good Idea

We went to Toys-R-Us the other day and were looking around to get ideas for Christmas. Waylon was sitting in the back of the buggy along with my purse. I saw him playing with a Wal-Mart receipt but thought nothing of it. After leaving Toys-R-Us, incredibly not making a purchase, we went to K-Mart. We found a couple of things there, and when I went to pay, I couldn't find my debit card. I was sure that it was in a jacket pocket at home from being at Wal-Mart the night before, which was the last place I'd used my card. Of course, it wasn't in my jacket pocket, or in my jeans pocket (Jesse asks "Check the pants you wore last night when we get home." To which I replied, "It's not in there ding-dong, I've been wearing the same jeans for 3 days!!!" Try to tell me ya'll don't do that (the jeans thing, not the calling your husband "ding-dong" thing). I even called Wal-Mart thinking that the cashier had surely kept my card for herself. No luck. Finally, as a last ditch effort, I called Toys-R-Us and amazingly, some kind soul had found my debit card on the floor and turned it in. Bless their heart. I drove all the way back to town and retrieved my card, all while asking great blessings for the person who turned it in. That's the last time I give Waylon the job of watching Momma's purse.

So there you go Carrie & AC....what's a little pee on the floor anyway! :)

Sea World

I haven't posted lately due to a sick Wyatt, who has been stuck to me like glue, but who is now on the mend (hopefully).

We left last Thursday headed to Deltona to visit Jesse's mom with plans to go to Sea World on Friday then stay another night with Jesse's mom & come home Saturday. Don't you just love how everything always goes exactly according to plan?!?

We had a great time Thursday evening with Nanny & PaulPaul. Wyatt had started running a little fever, but we weren't gonna let a little 'ol fever stop us!! No way! So after an exhausting night (my kids either need to sleep away from home more or never go anywhere ever again!! They love their own beds and do not like to have to share with anyone!) we got up and went to Sea World first thing Friday morning.

As with Disney, I'm really glad we didn't have to pay for the boys to get in, because we surely didn't get our money's worth! Wyatt felt crappy, but for feeling so bad, he did enjoy himself somewhat. He loved the sharks, rays, and all the aquarium type things. He didn't really care about the dolphins or the whales, which really surprised me because that's all he had been talking about for a few days before. Waylon had been pretty excited to see the "big whale" but the whales didn't want to participate in the show, so while we were waiting for said whales to cooperate, Waylon fell asleep! He totally missed his big whales, but that's ok, because he really needed that nap!

Wyatt loved that ray tank!

Checking out the sharks

This is what Waylon was so focused on

Wyatt wasn't so sure about that monstrous whale!

Waylon kind of fed off of Wyatt's moodiness, but all in all did pretty well. He was actually tall enough to go on a couple of rides!! We rode one ride called "Ocean Commotion" that he laughed so hard through most of the ride. We also rode the little Shamu roller coaster. He was so excited to ride and did well until the first little drop, then he got a little scared, but at the end of the ride he was all smiles and so proud of himself! Hopefully he'll be my riding buddy when he gets older since Daddy doesn't like to ride! I'm tired of riding those roller coasters by myself!! Speaking of, I rode the Manta roller coaster and oh my goodness, it was great!! You're riding face down and it feels like you're flying. It was awesome. The only bad part was the guy riding next to me who kept saying, "This is fabulous, it's like I'm flying! This is fantastic!!" All that talking was a little obnoxious. Next time, sit me next to a screamer.

(Oh yeah, for inquiring minds who want to know, Waylon does have on 2 different shirts...during the Clyde & Seymour show, he got snack on his shirt and then proceeded to take his shirt off right then & there and ask for a new one. Crazy, I know.)

We ended up leaving the park at about 2:30, both the boys had had enough, and frankly, so had Jesse & I!

We had a nice dinner at his mom's house, then Wyatt spiked a pretty high fever, so we figured we'd head home to be close to a hospital we knew just in case we had to make a middle of the night ER trip!! Luckily it didn't come to that, and Wyatt was feeling a little better by Saturday morning. We definitely had a better night's sleep in our own beds!! Trying to sleep in the same bed with those 2 boys is not fun!! They do not make for very good bed fellows!

I wish I would've gotten more & better pictures of our trip, but Wyatt refused to be put down (yep, Daddy had a sore back for a little while); and Waylon was stuck to my side and wouldn't step away from me so I could take pictures of him! Story of our lives!

Overall we had a pretty good time, there were things at Sea World that we missed out on, but the boys will just have to wait a while to go back & do it again. We've set in stone the rule for our house: No more theme parks until our youngest is at least 6 years old!! (Please, someone remind me of this next time I get it in my head to start planning a trip!)