First, here is Alex who has learned to cross his eyes and make me laugh.
Here is Chloe, after running face first into a half open door. The noise was so loud that I thought a dresser fell on her.
She got over it quickly when she saw the camera and she put on her cheesiest cheese face.
This next one may be the photo of the week. Alyssa stayed home "sick" on Monday. She barely had a sniffle but with swine flu cycling about they want us to keep kids home with any trace of a symptom. She played up the whole "I'm sick" thing and insisted on soup for lunch. Chloe and Alex had already eaten so I took them downstairs. When I returned to check on Alyssa, this is what I found on my table.
I promise I did not set up or encourage this in any way. She really, truly dressed up her plastic bowl of soup with a doily. It looks like after 3 generations, the Mormon blood is starting to thicken. Good job Alyssa.
Now on to what I learned this week. I learned that ALL kids color on walls. We have finally taught Alex and especially Alyssa, who would draw 6 foot murals, to stop drawing on walls. I was sure Chloe wasn't the type but ta-da, she is.
This next picture is the one and only picture from Saturday's chili cook-off and hayride with our ward. I tried to take a few more but the flash was off and the kids were too cold for a re-do. So all you get is Chloe stuffing a marshmallow in her face.
In other chili cook-off news....
My Chili Won!
It really did. I was so embarrassed. My chili recipe was the first recipe I ever made up on my own. It was inspired by some yummy chili they sell at Von's grocery store in CA but I had never even read a chili recipe before. Imagine our surprise when it was really good. Five years later I have only made it for my siblings and my offspring.
Seth decided to give it a debutante ball by entering it in the contest. Alyssa was very worried that I wouldn't win. She made an apron out of plastic bags as a back-up prize so that I wouldn't be sad.
But I did win. I was trying to hide during the judging but Seth was yelling across the world to get my attention. Couldn't he see that I was purposely being inconspicuous? Of course he did, but he loves to push me out of my comfort zone. Anyhow, even though winning the church chili cook-off means NOTHING it did give me a little bit of confidence. I wanted to enter the Pillsbury Bake-Off this year and I came up with 6-7 recipes and then chickened out because none of them were perfect. But hey, I got Mormons to eat, and vote for my chili without a single doily in sight. I may just be invincible.
Alright, enough tooting my own horn and on to the the finale pictures of the week.
This is my long-awaited BOOKWORM!
I have desperately hoped one of my kids would LOVE books and it has finally happened. We read all day long and when Seth gets home he takes a few shifts. I even find it somewhat adorable when she goes into tantrum mode when I tell her "not right now". She needs her books. I love holding her and reading to her and then hearing her try to read to me.
The only problem is that I am so tired of reading. Oh well, this was my wish.
10 comments:
We really want your Chili recipe for our chili cook-off.
That is crazy that she used a doily for her soup, so funny!
My favorite is you winning the contest. As soon as I read that I thought of how embarrassed you would be!! That cracks me up. I wish I could have some of that chili right now though.
I wanted SO much to taste your chili. Everyone loved it. Will you make it one day for me without what everyone most loves??
I love Alex's crossed eye tongue face. SO cute. I do hope he will do that during the primary program.
Hooray for Alyssa and her use of doily's (i don't even know if i spelled the word right) She's going to make a great RS woman some day.
How sad for a bonk on Chloe's face but hooray for the smiles a camera can bring out. I love her artwork. It's nice she's trying out so many mediums. And as for your bookworm, hooray! I love when they love to snuggle and read. I also love when someone else will take a shift because reading out loud can get old.
Cute pictures. Chloe is getting so big. Really, she looks so much older than she did just a few months ago. I love that she loves to read. I must chime in that the doiley is way too funny. My mom must be so proud, and she will probably send Alyssa some of her very own.
Julie, that is so great about your chili! Mormons are usually pretty good cooks so I bet there was some stiff competition. I think I might not share the recipe if I was you, or at least give it out with a few key ingredients missing.
As for the mural I have some of those on my wall I haven't got my magic eraser to yet. Fortunately, Malachi has moved on to dumping things out.
I bet you could come up with some crafts for the doilies.
I love the doily!
I didn't get to try your chili either. congrats on winning.
And about the bookworm- I always wanted a bookworm too. I hoped so much Abi would love books and she does.. but I find myself getting tired of reading them out loud to her all day sometimes and have to remind myself too.
Congratulations on the chili! Love all the pictures, including Chloe's mural. Heather did one once that I honestly couldn't bring myself to removing for years, actually. Something about being the last child. And no more crayon murals. (only it wasn't crayon - it was permanent marker) Finally I took a picture of it and painted it over. And now I've totally removed the wall it was on, even. Sigh.
Chloe is such a cutie! Katelin biffed it on our driveway when she was around 2 and had scarpes all over her face, but that same smile. Gotta love their resiliency (sp).
On another note, I am a little piffed that your chili beat mine, but I wasnt really in it for the contest. I didnt know you brought chili, or I would have tasted the real competition! Maybe you will have to bring that on Halloween!?
Would love that chili recipe or at least be invited when you cook it again. Chili is one of my favorite meals:)
Those pigtails look so cute on Chloe! Tell her she needs to teach Mimi how to sit still for a story. She's almost five, and I still can't get her interested in an entire story. Kiss that boo-boo for me. But then spank her for me for that scribbling on the walls.
Silly Alex! Tell him his eyes will stick like that if he keeps doing it.
Oh, and that Alyssa sure seems to have a prettifier gene. Are you sure she's not my child?
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