Flippin' the Flapjacks

I get this song stuck in my head every time I make pancakes.  Now you can too.  You're welcome.

Water Girl

One of the nice things about where we live is that we are right next door to a park with basketball, volleyball and tennis.  And seeing as how we are such an athletic family (ha!) we decided to go play some tennis the other day.

It's quite obvious Matthias got his tennis skills from me.

Kelsi actually managed to hit the ball quite a bit though!  Although she was quite worried that the other people at the courts were laughing at us.  They probably were.  Thankfully I'm pretty sure we didn't ever hit any of them with a runaway tennis ball.  There were quite a few of those.  That's where Lydia came in:

She had so much fun running around chasing tennis balls!

"It's just you and me, Ball.  Just you and me."

Eventually she got tired off running all over the place and decided to become the water girl.

"Here's your water bottle, Mom!"

Daddy's water bottle was a little harder to carry!

She was nice enough to see that her brother was obviously quite parched and brought him his water bottle in the middle of the game. 

Then decided that they no longer needed their water and she might as well drink it for them.  Can't let it go to waste, right?

"Oh, look!  A ball!"

And, of course, being the girly girl that she is, a tea party was in order.

Some more fun pictures for you (because that is the only reason I pretend to have a blog)

Christmas Serenade

Snowman Soup and Other Fun

I have a bunch of pictures from the past week! First up, we have Miss Lydia who was having a blast wearing my ring. She was "pretty!"

And some snowman soup!

Lydia had carrots ;)

And a couple of marshmallows!

Kelsi and I had ourselves a "spa day" as well. Matthias looks more excited than Kelsi...don't let that fool you though!

Matthias teaching Lydia all about geography.

An impromptu jam session.

And my sous chef!

Cheerios!

I finally broke down today and let the kiddos have some Cheerios to use with Lydia's Cheerios activity books, they had fun except Lydia kept trying to eat them all!

"Can I eat some?"

"Why won't these ones over here come off?"

"How can I get my hands on those Cheerios in that bowl over there?"

"Maybe if I just distract him..."

"Score!"

"Cheerios? What Cheerios? I didn't take any Cheerios."

"Oh, these Cheerios? Well, I'm a growing girl...I need my strength."

"Ha ha! Success!"

Lydia did, however, decide to return the Cheerios and join Matthias once again...under one condition: