Rainy weather fun

The boys have been having a good week. They keep coming up with new and fun ways to play. They keep me guessing!

Here Cole is having his doggie play the piano. He was cracking himself up with this.

Cole REALLY likes measuring tapes...so he has been using this blue slinky as a measuring tape. He goes around measuring everything...even Dylan!
And no, we didn't just come in from outside...Cole just has a new favorite hat!

Dylan is still obsessed with cutting...so he LOVES playing with his knife and wooden food that he can cut.

Today we set up a little tent in the living room and the boys took some of their friends inside and had their snack. Then they took ALL their library books inside and read them to their animals.

And later in the day I spent about 55 seconds back in my bedroom, and in that time the boys (working together of course) dumped out all the toy baskets and pulled off EVERY book on their book shelf. I walked into the living room to this scene. They were pretending to be swimming on top of the pile of books!

Making Apple Pie!

Today the guys and their friend Mei Zhen made apple pie together! We have a library book all about making an apple pie and so the boys have been talking about wanting to make one for quite some time.

Dylan, Mei Zhen and Cole are all ready to start! They all have their little aprons on and are ready to roll.

They all took turns rolling out the dough and sprinkling flour on the rolling pin. They all did such a great job of taking turns.

Cole liked to sprinkle and roll.

Once the crusts were all rolled out we got the apples ready. Here Mei Zhen and her Mommy, Lynn, are turning the apple 'peeler, corer, cutter' device that we have. We all had fun watching the apple skin get peeled in one long piece!

Then they all took turns measuring the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkling those on the apples. Then it was time to stir! We only had a few flying apples.

Looks good for 3, 2-year old chefs!Then the best part of the morning was getting to eat the apple pie! Mommy had to cut them off after their second piece. Dylan said it was the best pie ever!
(Notice how Mei eats so daintily and even holds her hand under her fork to catch crumbs! I didn't put up the picture of the boys shoveling pie in their mouths with their bare hands! Is that a boy-girl thing? I thought I was teaching them eating manners!?)

picnic snacktime

The other day it was almost nice outside. I mean the sun was actually shining and everything!

So we decided that we should have our afternoon snack as a picnic out on the deck.
Yummy animal crackers!

After Cole thought it was funny to hold his animal crackers in his mouth they both started doing it!

Dylan likes taking little bites of his animal crackers while saying that he just ate the animals toes, then legs, then forehead, then body.

Wacky Bouncing Cousins!

This past weekend we had some wacky visitors...Auntie Cindy and cousins Amy and Paige!

While they were here it was rain, rain, and more rain...so we went to an indoor play area that had big blow up bouncy fun!

Cole is zooming down the slide.

Daddy took Cole on one of the BIG slides that drops you into a tub of balls!

Dylan and cousins Amy and Paige were having so much fun jumping on this giraffe that would crumple under their weight.

Balls!...

...and more balls!!

The girls and Dylan spent a long time reading books in the boys room. The boys were so excited when they realized that the girls could read their books...they kept asking for more stories!

All the kiddos playing with a puzzle.

Happy New Year and Jingle Bells!

Happy New Year!

The boys have really been interested in listening to holiday music this year. For your enjoyment, and perhaps your last Christmas song until next year...
here is Dylan and Cole playing and singing Jingle Bells!