Birthdays and Christmas and New Years January 1, 2009

Maddox’s 2nd birthday was Dec. 24th.  Here are some photos of him opening his presents.  On Christmas, he spent more time playing with the scotch tape than the large Tonka truck sitting next to him.

On New Years, I tried Alton Brown’s pancake mix one more time without trying to make it healthy with applesauce and junk.  It was the BEST pancake mix EVER.   William ate half of his chocolate chip pancake before I could get in a picture.  Yes, the photo  is only HALF the pancake and there are two stacked on top of each other.  Needless to say, we didn’t have much of a lunch later

My muffin eating his birthday muffin.  He loved the balloons.

We stayed home all day because we were just getting over the flu.  Maddox loved playing with his favorite toy of all time – the spices.

Why play with a big cool tonka truck when you have a whole roll of Scotch tape in your hands?

One of my past times… running around the house like crazy.

“Daaaaat!”

Pancake breakfast on New Years morning.

This is only half the pancake!

Halloween Pics November 4, 2008

Well, the first is the scariest picture of all.  I tried making Todd Wilbur’s copy of CPK’s Pea and Barley Soup.  It is delicious!  However, to get there I had to puree the pea soup at one point.  Since I don’t have a hand blender stick, the directions said I could use my food processor.  Well…. you know there is a “max liquid” line?  Crazy huh!

And here are the pictures of my baby bear!

Maddox’s hair cut September 29, 2008

The first one is at home obviously.  We went to Des Peres Park for a little while on the second photo.  Here are before and after photos of Maddox’s hair cut.  I tried just trimming the long sides behind his ears, but that looked silly.  So, I gave him an overall hair cut.  It is the same kid!!!  I promise!

My favorite photo of the day: September 25, 2008

And here is what happens to statues left near strollers:

New Actions I’ve Found September 20, 2008

Here is the original photo:

Here it is after cropping and tweaking:

Here is the photo after running Gothic COI action:

Here are some more random but awesome super -photos from the new super-camera.

This is where all those politicians can stick that bail out money for all those idiots who couldn’t afford their house to begin with:

And here is what happens when you go into the bathroom after daddy:

Talk like a Pirate at Faust Park September 19, 2008

Here are pics from the event featuring two cuties!  Most are of Zoe because all Maddox wanted to do is sit in his stroller and play with the buckle.

Pirate Ship September 10, 2008

We followed daddy to Lowe’s on Saturday and made a pirate ship!  Everything was in one little bag and with a hammer, we put all the pieces together.  Maddox had a lot of fun.  I didn’t know it was even going to be there – or I would have pictures from it.  I’m not quite sure who had more fun though since I got to bang a nail with a hammer repeatedly. 

Look!  There is even a plank you can walk your gi joe’s on or barbie dolls!  I was quite impressed with the plank actually.  It was quite a simple piece of engineering that made it look like they actually cared when designing the ship.