Progress?

Griffin was moved to the table today. We've avoided it for a long time for several reasons

• throwing food


• throwing silverware


• dirty hands everywhere


• feet on the table

We decided he seems to be throwing "less" food, he always climbs up on the bar stool at the island and I'm really, dang sick of looking at the grubby highchair in my kitchen. Adults sat on each side of him for pizza tonight. He's going to require a watchful eye...He still puts his feet on the table.

*note-he's not necessarily throwing the real fork here in this picture per say. Just swinging it around like a weapon. Neat.

Fuel

Sleeping in now means 7am??? I guess??? I wouldn't say I agree or want it that way, but it just is what it is. Not so much that I'm woken by the kids but my body wakes me. It's old-feeling, creaky and my back starts to ache and I can't turn into a comfortable spot after a certain time. Depressing in a way. So, up we are and fuel is necessary.

Who knew free could be so much fun

Stopped into Home Depot the other morning for light bulbs and found out we were just in time for a kids building class. We all sat down and played and the kids loved it!

Quick dinner

I found this recipe the other day on one of the recipe blog sites I check several times a week. Thought it sounded good and had pretty much everything in the pantry so made this tonight. It was really easy and really good! I substituted a couple things, whole corn instead of creamed, an egg instead of egg beaters, so maybe I wasn't quite as "light" as the recipe noted but it didn't make a difference to us! Yum! Of course the kids didn't even try a bite! I made them mac and cheese.






Here's a link to the website where I found the recipe in case you want to try it. Lots of fun recipes and way better pictures than I took!

http://pointlessmeals.blogspot.com/2010/10/chicken-tamale-casserole.html

Daylight Savings

While losing an hour of evening at night is hard there are some pleasant parts of daylight savings. This was sunset on Sunday night, just before we sat down for dinner!

Lots of days, we wish we had a bigger house on a bigger lot, further out of town. But I do need to remind myself that we still have a pretty great set up with a path and some wooded area just outside our back door. Pretty beautiful!

Setting Sun

We've been squeezing in as much time outside as we can the last few minutes before dinner and sun set. It's cool but nice and we have all really enjoyed the long fall we've had! Winter will be hard for all of us, especially Griffy and Hannah....I guess I should say Griffy and Hannah will probably drive the rest of us crazy cooped up inside all winter! Fortunately we've been able to avoid that so far during these mild fall evenings!