What Ben thinks of Mommy

1. What is something mom always says to you? "How are you doing?

2. What makes mom happy? ""please

3. What makes mom sad? "When people are not very nice to people

4. How does your mom make you laugh? ""funny stuff""

5. What was your mom like as a child? "food"

6. How old is your mom? "3 1/2"

7. How tall is your mom? "that big"

8. What is her favorite thing to do? "get dressed"

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? "do things by yourself"

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?"making famous toys"

11. What is your mom really good at? "making stationery"

12. What is your mom not very good at? "not telling what you want to do"

13. What does your mom do for a job? "you don't go to work"

14.What is your mom's favorite food? "mommy food"

15.What makes you proud of your mom? "b/c you like your mommy"

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? a charachter

17. What do you and your mom do together? "we play"

18. How are you and your mom the same? "we have hats"

19. How are you and your mom different? "cause we don't have long curly hair"

20. How do you know your mom loves you? "because I'm good"

21. What does your mom like most about your dad? "going on a hike"

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go? "to California"

What Ben thinks of Josh

1. What is something Josh always says to you? "bubba"

2. What makes Josh happy? "happy toys"

3. What makes Josh sad? "when you hit him or throw something at Joshy"

4. How does Josh make you laugh? ""funny stuff""

5. What is Josh like as a child? "a brother"

6. How old is Josh? "1"

7. How tall is Josh? "little"

8. What is his favorite thing to do? "do things, watching me do things, watching me go on the trampoline and the slide"

9. What does Josh do when you're not around? "he plays"

10. If Josh becomes famous, what will it be for?" I don't know"

11. What is Josh really good at? he's very good at eating"

12. What is "Josh not very good at? "going on forest hunt"

13. What does Josh do for a job? "destroying train sets"

14.What is Joshs favorite food? "bananas"

15.What makes you proud of Josh? "'proud toys"

16. If Josh were a cartoon character, who would he be? "I don't know"

17. What do you and Josh do together? "play with toys and I build a tower and Josh knocks it over"

18. How are you and Josh the same? "we are boys"

19. How are you and Josh different? "because I'm big and Josh is small and that's how we are different"

20. How do you know Josh loves you? "he gives you snuggles"

21. What does Josh like most about Daddy? "when Daddy goes to work Josh isn't happy and when Daddy is home Joshy is very happy"

22. Where is Josh's favorite place to go? "puzzling world"

Summer 2009

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Hide and Seek

Dan has gone off to have a solo camping adventure this weekend and the boys and I were left, without the car, to see what sort of trouble we could get into. This morning we started our day in the dark, playing hide and seek in the closets. We moved the boys into the same room and somehow the project is taking us weeks to finish. Ben and Josh loved playing in the empty closet, the empty dresser and later on in the day, the empty drawers. I love the fact that hide and seek at this age is all about the counting, giggling and not much hiding.

All things zucchini

Dan's veggie garden has done quite well this summer. We've enjoyed lettuce, potatoes, cucumbers, a few bell peppers and a lot of zucchini. The tomatoes have yet to ripen... but in the mean time I have been asking everyone I know for inspiration with an abundance of zucchini. Here are a few ideas.

Zucchini bread, I've made chocolate zucchini bread, spiced zucchini bread and recently apple-coconut zucchini bread.

Fritters, both zucchini-feta-herb fritters and zucchini and corn fritters.

Muffins with grated zucchini and carrot.

Stir fry

Pasta bake

Ground beef tomato sauce with zucchini

Sliced zucchini baked w/ pesto and blue cheese

Shredded zucchini pie with potato and onion

Zucchini casserole w/ potato and onion

Quiche

Josh down by the lake

Josh is such a character these days. He's Mr. On-the-Go. Photos do not capture the speed in which he can move. These photos are from down at the lakefront today at lunch. He had just eaten more then his share of Dan's curry.

Playing at Bremner Bay