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Make your own Ipad baby monitor

May 22, 2012

When we first traveled with the guys we always carted along this cheap baby monitor so we could hear them in one room sleeping while we sat on the patio or vegged in another room. (We tend to get places with more than one room when we travel so we can actually zone out and […]

Two ingredient Sky-ride and a STEM activity

May 2, 2012

It’s amazing how much time a roll of ribbon and a package of Ikea bag clips will buy you. Maybe enough to unload the dishwasher? (Or buy that Bosu ball you wanted?) Just make a loop between two things like those old-fashioned clothes-lines we used to have growing up (Can we still buy those? […]

Easy edible egg nests

April 5, 2012

These are so easy and look so cool! I used this recipe from the Seattle Times, but I’ve seen it everywhere (hello pinterest), and you know how bad I am at following directions and they still turned out. I didn’t have very many chocolate chips so I threw in a Theo salted Almond bar, and […]

Ladybugs and a Ladybug snack

April 3, 2012

Today’s 5 minute sharpie-on-Baybel Cheese ladybug snack was inspired by another ladybug we met yesterday while playing soccer on the field. We are all soccer all the time lately and portable snacks are also something we need when we head out to play. (We also met the cutest Daschund puppies, but we were too busy […]

Marshmallows make everything better

March 29, 2012

Ever since I saw this yummy marshmallow delight in a Williams-Sonoma catalog, I’ve been craving chocolate covered grahams and marshmallows in a bunny shape. And tonight was one of those nights when I needed to get what I want. Because somewhere in between the boys bopping each other and having an epic tantrum, someone used […]

Bunny Buns

March 27, 2012

Every year one of our babysitters brings her bunnies to our house before Easter to make things a little festive. I try and make Easter-themed snacks for the kids to munch while waiting for their turn with the bunnies. Last year, I really liked how my tortilla chick chips turned out. So this year I […]

Baked Potato Buffet

March 17, 2012

Sometimes dinner ideas come from the strangest places. The kids were playing with their Mr. Potato Head toys (how did we end up with so many Mr. Potato Heads I don’t know!) and I decided we needed to make ourselves a baked potato dinner. I didn’t know you need a recipe for making the best […]

Haupia Pi(e) Day

March 15, 2012

Yesterday was March 14th, (3/14) and in this lovely nerdy city we live in, it’s celebrated with pie. It was super rainy so we decided to go with the trend and try our hand at making our own pie day at home. (We were still drooling over the yummy Haupia pie from Ted’s Bakery in […]

Airplane Cucumber Puzzle snacks

March 8, 2012

Last week there was a minor meltdown in Metropolitan Market and I ended up on the losing end with an airplane cookie cutter as a souvenir. So I decided to make good use of this when I only had a cucumber for snack the other day. It sounds so much cooler saying “Do you want […]

Easy Homemade Chocolate Pudding

February 23, 2012

The boys were craving pudding the other day and there was none in the fridge and now I don’t think I’m going to have to buy pudding again. This recipe was yummy and super easy and the guys actually enjoyed it better when it was warm than they did a couple hours later after it […]

Crafty little things

February 13, 2012

Today I got a little overly-crafty. I thought we’d make a little tray of bento cucumber “Frogs in Love” for a playdate today as the Bean adores frogs. But it got to be a little much. I got as far as cutting out the frog shapes and cheese eyes and then realized I still needed […]

Pepper painting and the saddest attempt at macarons

February 9, 2012

Some days are meant for lying around, reading books, painting and baking-especially a grey day after a week of sunshine. I thought we would make cheery pepper flower paintings. I saw something similar in a recent Family Fun issue using celery, and thought they were amazing. Peppers make more of a peony shape. They boys […]

Farm, Fuji Bakery and Feeling Domestic

January 30, 2012

A perfect morning for the boys and I, is a trip out to our farm. I guess it’s not really our farm, but we feel like it is. It’s only about a half an hour away from Seattle and we adore Farmer Jayne and the other staff who work there. We take a lot of […]

Come In Winter (when we get snow in Seattle)

January 19, 2012

This morning we took a a page from the boy’s Owl Book where he welcomes in Winter and brought the snow inside to play because this was one of those rare mornings where we woke up to snow in Seattle. It was almost as messy as the snow disaster in the Owl book we read, […]

What you do the day before the Biggest Snowstorm Ever!

January 17, 2012

According to this article we have a “juicy storm” coming our way. I totally thought it was coming today so I’ve prepared for the biggest snowstorm ever. I forgot that living in the United States the news is always Armageddon with the weather so I totally wasted my day thinking I would be stuck on […]

I heart Postcardly

January 11, 2012

When I first heard about Postcardly I wasn’t sure how I was going to use it: the grandparents, aunts and uncles all live in Canada and it doesn’t work for international addresses( yet). BUT, I suddenly realized how fantastic it would be for sending to our local friends and I’ve been having fun sending playdate […]

Putting the Finishing touches on Christmas 2011

December 22, 2011

We aren’t totally ready for Christmas yet. There are a million presents to wrap in our basement despite the diligent wrapping efforts the hubby and I have been putting in between episodes of Friday Night Lights and vain attempts to exercise at the gym. But it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The […]

Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

December 21, 2011

These are a few of my favorite things: Don’t you love how packaging is sometimes so much better than the actual gift or thing inside the box with kids? We recently got some things in the mail and the brown paper packaging was too fun not to play with! And I can’t help but reminisce […]

Gingerbread building, making gummies and the most youthful Santa we’ve ever seen

December 9, 2011

We’ve been pretty busy this last little while taking many different holiday classes. A really neat one we tried this week was the kids’ baking class at the PCC grocery store. We learned how to make an egg-free gingerbread recipe which is awesome when you cook with kids and worry about them eating raw-egg. The […]

Naughty or Nice?

December 2, 2011

If only these came in the boys’ size…. I got all festive after I took Trophy Cupcakes cupcake decorating class last night. It was such a fun night-we learned from the owner Jennifer, herself, and she is such a sweet and creative lady-I was totally in awe. There was champagne and cupcakes to nibble on […]