Photo of the Day: Day 4

More birthday fun. Super T's gift from Grandma arrived today. He's really enjoyed it so far. He even tells the big kids "Hey that's my game!"

Photo of the Day: Day 3

 

Super Tater playing with his erector set. 

He decided he was going to build a race car. He told me he needed screws and wheel holders (axles). After taking this picture I lay in the floor for a while and built a race car and then an airplane with ST on one side of me and Beara on the other side. We had a lot of fun. My favourite part was listening to all the sound effects that went along with assembly. 

Photo of the Day: Day 2

On our way out the door to take our new neighbours a plate of chocolate chip cookies. 

The Cake

As most of you know Super Tater recently had a birthday. He loves Mickey Mouse. I suggested we do a Mickey cake, thinking he would want Mickey's face. Instead he chose to have Mickey's clubhouse. So here is what we created.

 

Can you tell how much he liked it?

Princess Little took this picture for me.  It shows more detail (she's still getting used to her new camera so it's a bit blurry, sorry). The red dome shape, the arm and the spacer under the head are all cake covered in fondant. The head, foot and leg, and hand (Handy Balloon) are all made of Rice Krispie Treat and then covered in fondant. The fence, slide, stepping stones and Pluto are all sculpted out of fondant.

Just to tell you what a wonderful big sister PL is, when Super Tater first saw his cake he wanted to know where Pluto was. I was trying to get things ready for the neighbours to come over and honestly I hadn't even given any thought to Pluto. PL stepped in and sculpted Pluto out of scraps of fondant. I was so impressed at her thoughtfulness and her creativity! ST was really pleased too. (She also made the fence and the gate posts. )

We had a lot of fun with this cake. I have always used a shaped cake pan before, so this was definitely a learning experience. The Handy Balloon kept falling over (that's why you can see green smudges on it) and one of the ears kept falling off (you can see some of my marshmallow glue). This was also the first time I have ever worked with fondant (an icing that you roll out and then lay over the cake). It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be. I was very thankful for the stand mixer that I got for Christmas. It made making the cake and all the icing/fondant super easy!

...and we're back!

I don't even begin to understand what Nil did differently, but the computer is back up and running (for the most part) after being down only about 18 hours.  Now if we could just get his back from Best Buy we'd be in business!

So now that it is so much easier to get pictures from the camera to the computer, I plan to post a photo each day.  I will probably do these pretty much straight from the camera...very little editing. Here is the picture from yesterday.

Princess Little found a butterfly yesterday. 

A Bit of Business

I've decided to just go ahead and make the blog public because, honestly, the other way is just a pain. 

I may be without a computer for a few days. Nil had to take his laptop in because the fan is going out. (We don't share computers well, even in the days when we had no television we had two computers!) Amazingly it is still in warranty for the next two weeks...though he may wish it weren't because it sure would be a good excuse to get a new one. Also, I have asked him to update the operating system on my machine so that I can more easily post pictures to the blog. Long story, but it's not the kind of update where you can just pop in a disk and we may be out of commission for a couple days.

Welcome

I've been reading blogs for a couple years now and have toyed, from time to time, with the idea of writing one myself.  Back when the internet was young(er) I had a totally self-indulgent "homepage" and I guess this is sort of the live-action version of that. The good news is the antics of the kiddos should prove much more interesting than the list of annoyances that comprised the main content for the web-publishing of my late teen years.

For now I am writing mostly for family.  I'm new to this and there is much to learn. While I have tried to limit access to the blog, I am aware that everything posted on the internet is easily available if someone really cares to look. Therefore, I will not use the real names of our family members and may edit some images to conceal our locale or certain information relevant to hubby's career. There is a "cast of characters" list on the lower right for easy reference.

Anyway, so hopefully you'll indulge me in this. I think it will be a fun way for you all to be more involved in our lives. Check back soon for a picture of the day! (Or you could subscribe with the buttons on the upper right.)