Christmas Presents

Letter Blocks for my sister:

Almost finished

One side

Other side

Finished Blocks

You get the idea

Magnetic Family Tree for my Sister-in-law

The Tree and border and glued onto a piece of sheet metal. 

The flat marbles have pictures of family members on them. They then have a magnet glued onto the back. 

Opps sideways

Many thanks to my wonderful friend who let me use her Silhouette Machine 

Yogurt Confusion

Here are a few of the funny things Ry has said while eating yogurt.



Here are two picture of the containers for reference.

While eating the Cherry Vanilla yogurt (my all time favorite flavor):
He's sitting there eating and staring at the container. And then suddenly he states, "My yogurt is made from cows".

While eating the Strawberry Banana yogurt:
"Strawberries have seeds on the outside, they are a fruit. And bananas have tiny black seeds, they are a fruit too".  "Mom, are cows a fruit or a vegetable"?
I reply, they are meat.
Ry- "Meat"?!?!
Me- Your yogurt is made from cow milk, not cow meat.
Ry - "oh" and a face of relief.

Prairie Farm packaging because today while eating cottage cheese he said.



"My cheese is made from cow. Why is it white"?
Me - because milk is white
Ry- What if it was purple, then it would be purple cheese.

And he also keeps talking about how when we move to a bigger house, we will have cows in it. This is news to me. I would vote we keep the cows outside.

More Preschool Thoughts

We went to three county fairs this summer and saw cows being milked a number of times. Add that to my nursing Sophs and I suppose it has made an impression on him.
So, we are at Brain Train and Ry sees a picture of a cow. He looks at it, points to the udders and says, "look there's it's milks! That's were milk comes from". 
There must have been something else to the picture like some thing near the udders, but as of right now I can't remember. All I can see is the shocked look on our Brain Train Play conductor's face. She was quite shocked at the frank answer that came from my three-year-old.

That goes right along with:
One day I got a new gallon of milk out of the fridge. We have been getting some of our milk from a local dairy.
Ry: Mom, is that store milk or milk from a cow? 
Me: It's the special cow milk.
Ry: Oh, with the milk fat?
Me: Yes
Ry: The chocolate just got the milk fat off, of there.

At least he know where some of his food comes from.

Preschool Conversations

Ry is rubbing a bar of soap all over the edge of our bathroom sink, before he washes his hands.
I question him as to why he is doing this.
Ry looks at me with a duh mom face. And says, "it's the talking soap bubbles".
I think for a moment, ah yes (scrubbing bubbles).
Ry continues to rub more soap on the sink. It took me awhile to get it all off again.

The 4th of July

As is our new tradition, we went to the St. Joseph County Fair on the 4th of July. It was half price day and it was a million degrees by 10am. The Rosses braved the intense heat to join us. 

 Animal Petting area

Do Not pick me up. Does this apply to the chicks or the kids?

There, I touched it. 

 

These hamster, guinea pig, rodent things gave friend "Geirlead" quite a start. He still isn't sure if he wants to get near them.

 Sophs does not like horses.

Yum corn!

Milk, ice cream and grilled cheese. What more could you ask for?

Go ahead ask my brother to say, "mom, where's my corn?" or "I lost my corn".

 

 Lemonade

 Getting lined up for the parade

 The older boys were not interested in the parade until they made a "float".

Watching the parade 

In which we pick blueberries

We picked some blueberries again this year. They were smaller and not a sweet as last year. The branches were also all over the ground making it a bit more difficult for some. 

Ry loves to have little picking buckets. He refuses to keep the bag in them, however. He is also in love with "ice cream truck" and it goes everywhere. 

Sophs has been eating last year's frozen berries and knows just what those little blue things are. Before this picture she was pulling the branches toward her mouth and eating them straight off of the bush!

Cute baby!

How to Bake a Cake

This is Ry's second cake. I didn't get pictures of the first cake he made.

Step 1.  Get out the bowl

Step 2. Crack eggs into bowl. (let mom pick broken pieces of shell out). 

 Step 3. Open box of cake mix (add oil and water oops no picture)

Step 4. Pour in cake mix

Keep pouring 

Step 5. Mix ingredients together

We also poured it into cake pans and then sprinkled the tops with sprinkles. Mom put it in the oven.

 This was not staged. 

We ate this cake and it was part of Soph's birthday photo shoot. 

We even ate the first cake he made. Pineapple upside down cake. Jesse tells me that he only took the hot butter out of the microwave and opened the pineapple can and Ry did the rest.