Otto the Elephant

We have an invisible pet baby elephant named Otto.  He followed Alex home from school yesterday.  Alex told me: "His favorite food is pizza. That is plain. Plain pizza. (cheese, that is) He can suck it up through his nose.  His nose is called a trunk." Here you can see Alex holding him up to the window so he can watch the train pass. 



There are 2 engines pushing it!



If this all sounds rather familiar, you're thinking of Goldfish the Cat.

Look at my handsome boy!

Sunshine and Chalk

There is nothing better than playing with chalk in the sun after a long nap that marks the end of a cold! Nothing.

Alex the puppy

Face painting at a friends birthday party.

Oh, poop!

While watching Despicable Me, one of the characters exclaimed "Oh, poop!". Alex immediately laughed, then looked me in the eye and informed me "poop" is NOT a Building Blocks word.

Building an obstacle course.

For tater tot who he got from the treasure box for napping well at school.

Muffins = Love

Alex woke me up this morning asking for muffins.  It goes without saying that the muffins he wants are banana chocolate chip.  So, after I finally pried myself out of bed (bless my dear hubby for letting me sleep in) and had a little caffeine, we set to work making muffins.  Stan asked when this tradition started, and it made us wonder just how many batches of this particular muffins I've made now... Alex was about 2 (ask him why Mommy makes muffins and he'll tell you "it's because she loves me very much").  And though we have gone a week here and there without a batch, there have been other weeks with multiple batches.  Stan guesses it's round about 200 batches now.  No wonder I make them without a recipe, I'm on auto pilot.

But I do make them because I love my boys very much.  (Really.  I grew tired of eating them about 100 batches ago...)