happy hump day

Lauren had a rough start today. She was fighting with and yelling at Tyler and using a "bad attitude" tone so as we were loading up in the car I was all about the threats and taking away the evening's snack...instead of remembering to grab her school backpack. In the car and almost to her school I realized I forgot her backpack. When I told her this she started crying and wanted to go back home to pick it up. (in her backpack is a folder for her to bring home her homework and also a cup for snack time) She tried to calm down but her lip was still trembling when the teachers came to get the kids. As soon as the car door was opened she just fell apart crying that she didn't want to go to school.

It seems she calmed down and had a good day because she was all grins and excitement when I picked her up after school. She said she even got to use a Mickey Mouse cup instead of the dreaded white cup normally reserved for those who forget their drink cups. ??

While Lauren was at school Tyler and I headed out to Chuck E. Cheese for a friend's birthday party. Miss Carey threw a fun 3rd birthday party for playgroup friend Matthew with lots of game tokens, pizza, drinks and Elmo cupcakes. (we had to leave before the Elmo cupcakes to pick Lauren up from school but we thoroughly enjoyed everything else.

First up the Train Set. Surprise, Surprise but he really liked this one.

releasing some aggresion with the sledge-hammer

driving

and here's a sweet picture taken in a photo booth for just one token

a cartoon Chuck E. Cheese drew our picture

(if you look closely at that picture I'm almost choking Tyler trying to get him to hold still and look at the camera. he was ready to get out of the booth by then.)


This evening we iced up our sugar cookies we made yesterday.

sprinkles too

The kids each got one cookie but this was not considered a snack. Remember, Lauren lost her snack priviledge this morning...and Tyler doesn't really care if this cookie is called a snack or not...a cookie is a cookie.

after the sugar set in the kids did some playing with Thomas. Lauren really got into it.

Dinner tonight was fabulous. This was the first recipe from this week (Asian inspired meals) that was good enough for me to take the time to actually type out the recipe. I will do that in a following post.

In the meantime....

Enjoy this picture from a couple of days ago. Lauren and Tyler made orange & banana smoothies. Lauren didn't like the noise from the blender so she covered her ears. Tyler didn't mind the noise from the blender but always likes to do what Lauren does so he covered his ears too.