Balloon Craziness

The boys love any kind of ball...including balloons. I bought a jumbo bag and blow a few up from time to time and the boys have hours of instant fun. Yesterday, after their nap, Eric was blowing up a balloon. He made the balloon whistle, and then handed the balloon to Connor only for it to deflate. We kinda thought it was funny, but after about the third time...it wasn't so funny anymore...at least not to the boys!



Connor still won't touch the orange balloon!!!!

Kitty!

There were some kids playing football across the street for our house. One of the boys brought his little kitty, and she decided to come visit us! The boys loved it!



The PT and OT wanted me to start teaching the boys to dress and undress themselves. I'm not quite ready for them to learn that, but I do as I'm told. Here's how I've been finding Brandon when he wakes up from nap or in the morning...

Abnormal Eating

The boy have always been pretty decent eaters. Well, with the exception of Brandon when he was an infant...those were a few rough months. However, I'm extremely mind-boggled at the amount of food these 2 little boys ingest. They eat a pancake, a sausage link, and split a banana for breakfast. Sometimes it might be cinnamon toast, or oranges, or kiwi, but you get the idea. I change it up every day. For lunch, they eat a sandwich, veggie, fruit, and a carb of some kind like a cracker, teddy graham etc. For dinner they eat whatever we eat which varies greatly from day to day.

That brings me to yesterday. On Monday, they had their normal pancake breakfast with sausage and a banana. For lunch, see the picture below...( yes we eat naked most of the time now due to extreme messiness! )

Not only did they eat their chicken strip, mac and cheese, and strawberry, but they both had second AND THIRD servings of the mac and cheese. For dinner, they each at about 1 1/2 cups of spaghetti and when they ate almost all of that, I decided they deserved a sweet....they both ate a rice krispie treat. Connor will refuse fruit from time to time, but Brandon eats whatever I put in front of him. If I leave the fruit in Connor's bowl, most of the time he will eventually eat it. When I see Brandon eat like this, I get upset when the doctors keep pushing me to feed him fattier foods. The kid eats like a champ, and never stops moving. Don't we all wish our metabolisms were that good?!?!?!?!?!

I really believe there's a reason to them eating so well...no snacks. I very rarely give them a snack during the day. They get one at Mother's Day Out, but that's a special day. It's not that I deny them food, but they never ask for a snack so I never think to give them one. If I'm out running errands, I always have raisins or goldfish in their bag, but I rarely use them. As long as they have their water cups, 3 square meals a day, and about 3-4 cups of milk, they are A-OK!!!

While I'm happy that my boys eat so well, I dread my food bill in about 5 years!!! HAHAHAHA Happy eating everyone!

Some pics

Here are a few pictures of the boys. We recently started letting the boys watch one tv show per day, and their favorite is The Wiggles! We sit with them and talk about the show, colors, help them dance, etc. Here is what they look like when it's on tv...





Gotta love the jammies!
The boys don't necessarily respond to "say cheese", but they do to "say ME" Here's Brandon saying ME

Cinnamon Rolls

Ever since I found Ener-G Egg Replacer, I feel like the hand cuffs have been taken off my culinary wrists! I can now make all kinds of yummy food that Brandon can eat. I would much rather make something like Cinnamon Rolls from scratch than to buy them out of a can. I'm definitely not knocking cinnamon rolls in a can because they are super delicious and easy, but I can't pronounce half of the ingredients. If I'm going to give my family a sweet treat, I'd rather it be homemade where all the ingredients aren't necessarily chemically enhanced. I got this recipe from one of my girlfriends, so all of the credit goes to her! THANKS T!

1 pkg yeast
1/2 c warm water
1/2 c warm milk
1/3 c sugar
1/3 c butter (softened)
1 tsp salt
1 egg
3 1/2 - 4 cups flour

Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tbsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla

Dissolve yeast in warm water
Stir in milk, butter, sugar, egg, and salt
Add flour until dough is easy to handle (closer to the 4 cups)
Knead dough until smooth. Place in greased bowl and let rise for 1 hour.
Roll dough out into 15 x 9 rectangle then sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar
Roll up the rectangle and cut into slices.
Place in pie pan and let rise for another hour.
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.
Glaze and enjoy!

I think I cooked mine a little too long. I would rather them be a little gooey! I would also add more cinnamon and sugar next time. They were still good though!

Rising in the pan

All baked...nice and brown...next time I'm going to leave them a little gooey!

Yummy, glazed and ready to eat!

Jumping Turkey

After much thought, we decided that a Jumping Turkey was the way to go for us this holiday season.



Brandon was jumping and landing straight on his butt. It's amazing it didn't hurt his booty! We spent the holiday with one of Eric's coworkers and his family. It was a wonderful night and all the kids had a great time together.

Here's the video of Connor farting again...I fixed the problem!

My class is done

After 2 and a half months of class 2 nights a week, I finally completed the course with an A! It was a great class and I learned A LOT of things that anyone who files a tax return should know. I'm sure I can prepare our own return from now on and that it will be correct.

Sorry about Connor's farting video. I have to upload it again to youtube. I'll let you all know when I get that done. I'm not exactly sure what happened to it.