Our Caterpiller

Noah named him fluffy ...... we found him on the side of the road in a pine tree - after a lot of research, we can't figure out what kind he is.   We assume he's a moth - but not 100% on that...   We'll update!

Cooking 101 - Pies & Cookies

Daddy, Calahan & Noah put on their aprons (note to self, by more "manly" aprons .. ha ha ha) ...  I thought penguins were great!  The one Dennis is wearing is the one Calahan made for me one Mother's Day :)

So the plan for the day....  making some Pig Ear Cookies (it's just a name people) and Chocolate Silk Pie  ...

We made them from scratch.  (Great thing about having Dad in Culinary School!) ...  First him and Cal started to make the filling for the pie... 

Noah is so silly...  he was waiting for his turn to do something, the graham crackers sitting there is for the home made graham cracker crust...

Here is Noah cutting cookies with Daddy

 

 Pie half done  (a smaller pie in a bowl was made for Noah)

Looks yummy doesn't it?  Dennis then gave Cal a bottle with chocolate syrup in it, told him he got to decorate his pie...  told him he could do lines, swirls, or write something....  so...

He wrote "DAD" ...  now this is a BIG thing ... Dennis is Calahan and Noah's step-dad for those who don't know and Calahan doesn't normally call Dennis "Dad" even though Noah calls Dennis both "Dennis" and "Daddy" ..  it has always been left up to them what they want to call Dennis BUT we make it a point that they always respect their Dad too...  so it was a proud moment.

Here he's piping the topping onto Noah's bowl Pie

BREAK FOR CRAZY FACES!!!!!!!

Here is Noah with his chocolate decorating! LOL...  He is going

and keeps going until he RUNS OUT

 Proud Moments

The cookies are done too!!

The best part of baking ...... eating the evidence!!

Even Kaedyn got into the fun (Nathan was sleeping)

Photos of the Hard Working Kids

I thougtht I would share some photos of the kids .... hard working - from the past couple weeks. I've fully been meaning to do a lot of things in here (blog) but haven't gotten a chance to because I've been sick.....

The first couple are of Nathan painting (love Color Wonder!) and Cal and Noah working on their "favorites" project which is going to be on going...

I stapled a bunch of construction paper for them to cut stuff out of magazines and have some "I like this because..." or "this is my favorite because it shows..." type stuff by it ...

Nathan all done with his painting (finger painting too) .... Mommy helped of course! Nathan is smart, but to write his name and make a sun? LOL...

Goobered fingers from the Color Wonder gel...

Working on their "Favorites" Project ...

Closing up his paints.....

Favorites Project

We also did a 4 Brother's Ranch Sign

Each of the boys put their hand print on there

Nathan's masterpiece!

Kaedyn working hard at eating a cookie!!

Noah working on reading

Still working on reading - can you tell that he's ...

CONCENTRATING!?!?!