Well, we are getting in the Christmas Spirit at the Nielsen household. I have not baked as much as I normally do…maybe we’ll do some more this week. I better make some Peanut Butter Balls for Rick so he doesn’t dis-own me! Noah and I did make some Creme deMinthe Bars and a Birthday Cake for Jesus this last week. Noah wants to stir and help mix and pour and lick the beaters!!! He is SO my kid!!!
Noah also thought Faith needed something to snack on too. I had the container of puffs sitting on the table and Noah dumped about the whole thing on her tray. Not sure how many she ate before I noticed, but she was shoving them in by the fistful!
Noah was pretty excited to eat the Birthday Cake we made for Jesus. He also licked the beaters…and the bowl when we made this. He tried to go straight for the batter in the pan, but I thought that was maybe a little too much!!
Rick thought Faith NEEDED a Christmas dress, so here it is. I think Noah is even wondering what is going on with her!!! He kept looking at her shoes, like “These are not her tennis shoes…what are these things?” Actually, I think I wore these shoes when I was little. They were in the closet with some other things my Mom pulled out of her cedar chest. They fit Faith and I didn’t have to go shopping, so it was good!!!
We went to the KC Pumpkin Patch today!! They had all kinds of stuff for kids (and adults) to do, including a tricycle track, petting zoo, Pumpkin Cannon, Mining, Duck Races, Jumping Pillow and…
Great Pumpkin Slide
Ducks to feed
SpongeBob Hay Pants
Train Ride
Playground Equipment
And of course, lots of PUMPKINS!!!
It was a great time and Rick was happy because he got a Funnel Cake!!! I might add, it was REALLY good!!! And on the way home, we topped the excitement off with Casey’s Pizza!!! I think we will be making this an annual event!
Last night we went for walk on one of the walking trails by our home. We were hoping that we could see a train to make Noah’s day…and boy did we ever!!! There was a path right off the trail that went straight up to the train track!!! Noah got to touch the train track and throw some rocks on the track while we waited for another train to come past. After about 15 minutes, we seen the train coming!!! Rick grabbed the video camera and I grabbed Noah (Faith was in the stroller) and there we stood, only about a few yards away from the track and watched the train go past!!! Noah was doing the “choo choo” sound and the arm action and the train honked back!!!
Below is a video that Rick but together of two of the trains that we seen on our walk last night. I think we’ve had to watch this video at least a dozen times already today!
Posted by Rachel on Aug 20, 2010 in Faith, Noah, Rick
We’ve been trying to get down to our neighborhood pool as much as we can before it closes for the season. I attempt to bring both kids to the pool by myself once in a while. For the first little while, Faith stays in the stroller while Noah and I swim, but it’s been so hot that I think Faith gets hot in the stroller and she starts to get restless, so I take her in the pool. But Noah still thinks he wants to jump in off the side and it’s a little harder to catch him while I’m holding Faith. So it is nice when Rick can come down with us!!! He gets one kid and I get the other!!
Faith seems to like the water, so that’s good. Noah LOVES going to the pool. He even gets all our swim suits and brings them downstairs when he wants to go. He must think it will hurry us up a bit! To avoid a breakdown when we are trying to leave the pool, we tell him that we get to go home and have a popsicle! Works like a charm…usually!!!
Posted by Rachel on Jul 31, 2010 in Faith, Noah, Rick
Poor Faith was vandalized during her morning nap. She was just sleeping away and Noah was…yes, you guessed it…playing with his trains. I went upstairs to try to get the ink out of the load of clothes from yesterday (I’ll tell you more about that in a bit) and when I came back down, I looked around the corner and seen something on Faith’s head. As I got closer, I seen a sticker on her finger and there were a couple on her shorts too. I guess Noah wasn’t playing with his trains the whole time, he did manage to vandalize his sister too!!!
I told Rick to come and look and Noah came over too…we asked him what he did and he just said “Faith stickers” and then proceeded to pull them back off of her, and she slept right through it!!! Guess she must be used to being picked on by Noah!!!
Now, about the laundry…first of all, this is all Rick’s fault!!! I did a load of laundry yesterday morning and when it was done, I went to go put everything away. I pulled out the first shirt and there were spots all over it, so I hesitantly pulled out the next shirt only to see the same thing. I put my head in the dryer and started yelling at Rick right away. He had left a pen in his shorts pocket and it decided to explode all over. Now I ask, why does he not clean out his pockets before throwing it into the hamper? Second, how did the pen manage to stay in the pocket during the wash cycle (at least I’m assuming it did, otherwise one would think it would have been at the bottom of the washer or at least fell out when I transferred the clothes to the dryer. Third, why couldn’t I have at least kept the shorts out to air dry!! Luckily, it was a dark load of laundry, so you can’t tell if there are ink stains on some of our black shorts or black tshirts and there was also some towels that were in there that I happen to let air dry, so those were saved!! The other clothes have not manage to fair so well. I’ve tried hairspray, nail polish remover, rubbing alcohol, and we even bought some Goo Gone stuff and nothing has worked!!! Faith has lost a cute outfit that she only wore once, Noah lost a pair of shorts, Rick lost a good pair of shorts and some shirts, and I lost some shirts. Some shirts where not hit as hard and we could still wear them for everyday and there were also a couple bibs that only had a few spots on them, so we can keep those too. The dryer looks like…a pen exploded in it!! We did get most of it off the stainless steel drum, but the back of the dryer looks like a mess, but I’m sure it’s just burnt into it. Way to go Rick!!!
