New Shades

While at Wal-Mart last night we stumbled upon the $1 section. Boy, oh boy, what fun did we have. Thankfully, we only walked away with some snazzy lookin’ shades and a dolphin balloon. I didn’t think Baron would be into the sunglasses since he has had some since birth and every time I try to put them on him, he smacks them right off. Maybe he likes these because they are not wrapped around his giant skull and instead he gets to wear them like his dad. I know, a little girly but not bad for a bag of 7 for just $1.

The video has nothing to do with the glasses, just some video I took the other day since it’s been awhile.

 

 

Finally a success!

I know I have been going on and on about Fondant but I finally had a breakthrough. After the last failure, I had practically given up and was going to wait until I could find a class that I could attend. I stumbled on a new recipe and thought I would give it one more shot. This was complete with pictures (the best part) and looked easy enough, however, that’s what I thought with the last one.

To say this was easy was an understatement. As I was making it and following to a T, I kept thinking of the lengthy process I had followed before and there was no way this was going to work out. After I refrigerated the fondant overnight, I attempted the hard part the following day. All I can say is that I started coloring and decorating at 4.30pm and finished at 5.45pm. This too was during those horrible storms so, in between watching the constant weather information on TV and the several breaks to stare outside the sliding glass door to see if the tornado was coming, I would say that was a awesome success.

Spray Bottle

I had an idea to give Baron a spray bottle with water to see what he would do. The first thing he does is start to spray it in his face. After I corrected him the first time and showed him how to correctly use it, he turns it on himself again and just laughs. It must be a boy thing. Now, since we were in the back yard when he started it and I wanted to take a video of it, I had to run up to the front of the house into my office to get the camera. I was sure that he would be finished by the time I returned but I was lucky. He was still doing it! You would think he wouldn’t like it. Too funny…

Water Table Fun

Thursday, we had Riley over for a play date. Baron was still napping or just finishing when I got back from picking Riley up and I thought it would be a fun surprise to have Riley walk in. Baron was happy to see Riley but you’ll also see from the video, she immediately picked up his lion and he said MINE! It was pretty funny, he was happy that Riley was here but she shouldn’t dare touch his things. MINE, was a constant word while she was here. We need to work on that.

After Baron was up, we went outside to play with the water table. I knew they would both like it since Baron really, really likes it. They did pretty good, actually better than I thought. Riley at one point poured water over Baron’s head and he looked at her as if she were a Martian. Thankfully he didn’t retaliate and just moved on. Only later did he get his revenge and dumped a good one on her. She, however, was pretty quick and snagged his cup away so he couldn’t do it again. Smart girl. Just so you know, I did not egg this on and it was not encouraged by me. Surprising I know, but I didn’t want to start something like that where I know it would end badly. I’m just glad that she did it first.

    

Hatalla Cut

With the summer coming closer and closer, we decided to have Baron’s hair cut shorter since he sweats like a little piggy and it mats to his forehead like glue. I didn’t want it as short as it is but I have to say, it’s growing on me. It makes him look so much more like a little boy and also like my sister’s kids.

The video doesn’t really have to do with the haircut other than I took it with my cell phone after we got back. Thought I should share. Good ol Reinhardt for sticking in there and taking the abuse. It was well worth the laughs.

 

   

OUCH!

Baron had quite a spill yesterday…we’ll just say the concrete won. He’s been trying to jump off everything these days and he decided to jump down some concrete steps. After the first several attempts were successful, the last one proved to be the one the did him in. It sounds worse than it was but he missed a step and crashed face first into the concrete below. Thankfully he was ok and walked away with some road rash and not less teeth. I think Rob and I were still sick several hours later and he was over it in less then a few minutes. Jeez…we won’t be doing that again. Lesson learned. I guess I need to not let him drive the mower then too.