New Camera!

Sabrina's parents were so nice to send us a new camera! We have been taking lot's of pictures and we wanted to share some of them with you.


These are balloon swords that they had made at the Childrens fair.



Josh is on the move! Peek-a-boo!



Dad and the boys messing around with the camera!



"Bubble Beard" the Bath Pirate and his first mate "Foamy"





Always smiling!



Josh is happier in the buff!

Caleb's Birthday

Yesterday was Caleb's Birthday. He is now Seven!

Some of his friends from school came to his party in the afternoon. There were three boys and one girl. It was funny watching the girl(who was five) trying to do all the things the rambunctious boys were doing.

Some of the boys were riding, Caleb's big wheel, down the driveway and drifting around one of the cars. It worked well because the ground was still wet from the rain. I was glad that no one got hurt. Nothing worse than kids going home with injuries!

I made the cake. Unfortunately I made the frosting with too much butter and it was running off the cake. Hopefully next time I will remember(One cube of butter, not two). I placed it in the fridge for a while and that helped. It tasted fine! I just get disappointed when I mess up something that it so easy. So we went out a bough an Ice Cream Cake from Baskin Robbins for the Family celebration this evening.

Caleb wanted Orange on the side and white on the top with red flames. It was Transformer'ish!

He got a new Transformer(stormcloud), a Transformers Animated Bumble Bee, a large Bakugon, and a "Krust Krab" Lego set. He had a great time!

Photo Update

Baseball Josh "who me?"

Justin has to be in the pictures too.

What will they look like when they grow up?

So sweet!

Daddy play time! Josh is getting great at reaching and grabbing.

Gingerbread Dragon Complete

So far as I know this original creation of mine is the best gingerbread dragon on the net! And it was pretty easy to do! I will copy write the directions and sell kits, because it really is fun. Nigel made the dough (thankfully) I cut out some stencils and he rolled out and cut the dough to the stencil's shape. Transferring the longer pieces to the cookie sheet was the hardest part- and not tearing the dough when cutting around the stencil.  The legs are round cookies, we barely had enough dough for the wings.  The neck is three layers, the spikes were some left over dough we used every half inch.

So here is what has been sitting on the shelf for several weeks. The holidays got too busy but I finally had time to finish it.  Justin helped, I needed help because the frosting drys quickly and I was still working of getting the right body look and form.

I think he helped more because he wanted to eat some. The inspiration for the project was his nursery school gingerbread hunt. I thought someone would have done a dragon but I couldn't find any images of on like this on the net. Next year I will make smaller ones and see if I can post the directions on an instructables site and make some money off the idea.

The neck was further out but the base stomach level failed sending the head and neck crashing down. I set it on top of the body and suddenly she looked much more dragon-y. before it was a little loche-ness or brontosaurus.
 

Isn't she cute? For sure a female dragon if I may be so sexist, one the kids wouldn't share any more of their candy and two no place for fierce dragon teeth! Next year, next year.

With the real wings and yes no less than 10 minutes after the picture the far wing broke. Good thing I got pictures! The tail also broke in transferring it to a cleaner work area...

Okay so I photoshopped it a lot. I didn't have enough frosting to even attempt the wings. Josh has been fussy and I barely could get this done in between feeding him.

Up close look at the candy candy candy!

I have more pictures but I better save the secrets for next years triumph!

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky

 by Emily Dickinson

The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --

For -- put them side by side --

The one the other will contain

With ease -- and You -- beside --

The Brain is deeper than the sea --

For -- hold them -- Blue to Blue --

The one the other will absorb --

As Sponges -- Buckets -- do --

The Brain is just the weight of God --

For -- Heft them -- Pound for Pound --

And they will differ -- if they do --

As Syllable from Sound --