This Shouldn't Happen More Than Once, But Here We Are...

A child who shall remain nameless was carrying a plate with a cheese-filled breadstick and a small bowl of pizza sauce.  They tripped and everything went flying.

Literally.

Flying.  

And sadly I am also somewhat embarrassed to admit this is NOT the first time we have had to clean pizza sauce off the ceiling.....

(One of the) Best Things About Summer

Our State Fair...

The Giant Slide











Checking out the animals
 

D's version of heaven- the pony rides




In the petting (or more accurately, the feeding) zoo






But what you really go for is the food....

Deep fried Kool Aid



Root Beer Floats

Ice cream

 
Buttered Corn



Hot dogs


Steak on a Stick


Cheese on a Stick


Funnel Cakes



And ending the evening with their favorite thing- the foot massage

The Simpsons Eat Ethiopian

"Marge, The kids are acting ethnic."

Tee Hee Hee!!!!

I Think I am Going to Be Sick, But....

It was TOTALLY worth it!!!

Enjoying one of the last hurrahs of summer......FAIR FOOD

Root Beer Floats

Ice Cream

Hot Buttery Corn

Steak on a Stick ('cause all food is better on a stick)

Cheese on a Stick

Funnel Cakes

French Waffles

And to top off the evening- Cotton Candy on the way home

Looking for a Good Drink for New Year's Eve

This Ain't It

A created this recipe about 2 weeks ago (typed exactly as he wrote it).

Serves 5

5 packet dry powder hot chockolate

5 normal (hot) cups of milk

5 candy canes

5 packet pop rocks

5 pixie sticks

1. Mix 5 packets (dry hot choklate powder) with 5 cups of milk into 5 cups (1 packet per cup: 1 cup of milk per cup)

2. Dump one pixie stick powder into each cup. Do the same with pop rocks.

3. Add one unwrapped candy cane to each cup. Serve (carful may be hot!)

B didn't think to take photos of the creating and sampling process but apparently it's not as good as you might think.

I think we will stick with something more traditional for New Year's Eve

Things I Wouldn't Know if I Didn't Have Kids

That ice cream sprinkles are as much, if not more fun, without the ice cream

Last night I used up some grant money I had remaining from a work grant to buy (among other things) toppings for ice cream. The program I received the grant to do concludes with a parent/child pizza and ice cream celebration. I had alot of grant money so I thought I'd buy some extra of the things that can be stored long term (like ice cream sprinkles). I was in the process of sorting out the grocery bags when the phone rang. After about 5 minutes on the phone I realized, mid-sentence, that no one was yelling "Mommy, Mommy" and climbing all over me. Now you know why. That is 3 large bottles of sprinkles with a jar of crumbled Oreo cookies for good measure. And B wonders why our central vac canister seems to get full quickly.

On the plus side, K's occupational therapist wants her to start practicing putting small items into bottles and I did have an uninterrupted phone call.

The Difference Between

being in the same room with the children and actually supervising the children..... (or what happens when you assume that since someone is sitting on the couch they will actually look at the children)