Truffles

Caroline has always been an early bird. She wakes up, comes into our room to let us know she's awake and usually goes to watch TV until we get out of bed. The other day at breakfast she announced that she knew how to make truffles. huh?! She told us while we were still sleeping she watched "5 Ingedient Fix" on the Food Network and that she wanted to make some truffles. Dave didn't believe her so he said, "Ok, then how do you make truffles?" She proceeded to tell us how to melt chocolate, add heavy cream, chill in the refrigerator, roll into balls, chill again, then roll into toppings to make delicious chocolate truffles! We were so surprised! I can't believe she actually watched a cooking show by herself and paid enough attention to it to remember the recipe! So what else could I do but take her to the grocery store and buy stuff to make truffles!

We made milk and white chocolate truffles rolled in cocoa, coconut flakes, and (Caroline's favorite) jimmies!
What a cool kid I have. And if one of her favorite activities happens to be making chocolately treats, who am I to stop her?! :)

Messin' with Miles

It's been so fun for us lately now that Miles is smiling and interacting more!

Caroline loves it. I know what your thinking and yes, the boy is huge! This picture exaggerates his chub just a bit, but sometimes I can't believe this is the same boy who started off sooo tiny!


I think his sweet smile is just so charming! The sure-fire ways to make him smile are "If you chance to meet a frown.." and fake sneezes. Works every time!

Fish Face!

Haircut

I got a haircut this weekend! Here's the before:


And After:


Ok, so I've been wanting to do a style like this for a really long time, I was just too chicken. But Dave and a friend told me to just go for it, so I did!

In other news:

-Miles has some pretty terrible sleep habits. He will not sleep in a crib (or pack-n-play, bassinet, or anything intended for infant sleep) He will sleep in our arms or his carseat only. I intend to check out every baby book in the library this week and study!

-Caroline can tie her own shoes! We've been practicing off and on for a while and I think she's got it. It was so exciting the first time she did it by herself - it's funny how thrilling small firsts can be!

Preschool Graduation

Caroline "graduated" from preschool this weekend! I have always thought that these kind of ceremonies for 4 or 5 year olds were silly, but it made Caroline so happy that we were totally in to it!

The kids prepared a little singing program and it was so cute! Caroline's teacher told me one day after school that Caroline does so good at singing time and I didn't doubt it at all - our girl loves to sing and dance and put on a show. During the program Caroline did great. She knew all the words and sang every song and did all the actions with gusto!

Caroline and her teacher Ms. Jan. They really did this whole graduation thing big. Caps, gowns, sashes, even class rings! Yes, they gave each child a little "gold" ring that says 2011 on it and Caroline has been wearing with pride all weekend long!

We really enjoyed having Caroline in this school - we're all a little sad it's over. Now that she is used to going to school a few mornings a week, I'm afraid she's going to be so bored all summer long!

sMiles!

Blogger has been acting weird for me lately. I already posted these pictures but it's not showing up, so here's a second attempt!

Miles' smiles have been brightening up our home lately. When he smiles, the whole family hovers around him and starts the face-making and goofy baby talk to keep the grins going! We love it!

This last one just cracks me up! He looks like a jolly old fat man!

Mothers Day

I hate being late for church. And we usually are. I have a tendancy to blame this fact on everyone but myself, but last sunday it was entirely my fault that we walked in during the opening hymn. I wanted some mother's day pictures before hair was undone, clothes were wrinkled and dirty and patience was thin after 3 hours of sitting!


Me and my squishy. We've decided he has several different "looks" all depending on the position of his head at the moment: 1 chin, 2 chins, etc. :)

Me and my gal-pal. Caroline is sporting a new haircut this week!

Miles had a dr. appt this week. It was the fastest ever! The appt. was set for 9:30, but it's close to Caroline's school so I went right after I dropped her off at 9am. I got back in the car after the appointment and it wasn't even 9:30 yet! After so many dr appts for myself that have run 3 or more hours, this was an awesome surprise! The downside is that they didn't have his vaccines so we have to back next week for shots. I hate that part!

Miles is in the 75% for height and the 96% for weight! That's our big boy! He has been doing much better lately too, as far as crying. He spends much more time being awake and happy now and it's helped tremendously. He is starting to smile more, though not consistantly so it's hard to capture on camera, but I'll keep trying!