Peek-A-Book

We love books at our house. I can not walk past a book store without feeling a magnetic pull. The other day as I was walking past a book store, minding my own business, I saw the clearance stand. This particular clearance stand was full of SUPER cute children's books. We happen to love playing with Fisher Price Little People at our house so when I saw this particular book, I just knew that I had to have it. (The $2.99 price tag didn't hurt either!)

Addison and I went on a little field trip with Papa and I pulled out this book to entertain her. Needless to say, it was HUGE hit! At one point, she started to call this flap book her "peek-a-book". I couldn't help but laughing! She is such a little smarty pants! I have a sneaking suspicion that she gets her smarts from her daddy! :)

Smurfette

The other day, we were at my mom's house and she gave Addison some Princess fruit snacks. The only color that Addi would eat were the blue ones. My funny little girl does not like to keep her tongue in her mouth. (She thinks she's a puppy!) This evening was not so different. I started laughing because her tongue was blue. Addison ran to the mirror to check out her tongue and after that, it was ALL down hill. There was NO WAY that we were going to keep that tongue in her mouth. She loved her blue tongue SO much that she even posed for picture!

FYI: For those wondering, I canned 29 quarts of tomatoes the other day. I would post pictures, but Randy had my camera with him. (Sorry, I'm pretty proud of myself! I know, being prideful is a sin, but what do you do?)

Southfork Ranch

When we went to Dallas in March we visited Southfork. For those of you old enough to remember, Southfork is the home of 'Dallas'. I remember watching that show when I was a kid with my mother and waiting all summer long to find out who shot J.R..

These pictures are a little old (March) but I am trying to figure out how to make collages for my blog. I'm still learning, so bear with me, please!

(Click the images to make them bigger.)

Salsa or Tango?

I wanted to make salsa this, but with money being tight, I thought I should probably forgo it this year. So far, we have gotten the fruit that I was able to can this year off of my parents trees.

My little brother and his wife thought that they should pay me back for watching their kids (which is like getting paid twice, since I love those little girls to pieces), so they put some salsa together for me. They had to leave and do some family things, so they brought me the salsa in the roasting pan and told me to cook it all day. It was actually quite fun and I've enjoyed all the canning that I've learned how to do this summer. Bret & Jamie told me that the amount of salsa they put together would make about 15 pints.

I was kind of a dork and bought half pint bottles instead of pint size. I had so much salsa to can that I had to borrow another wet pack canner or else I was going to be at it all night.

All in all, I we got 28 half pints of salsa. I think there is probably enough there to last me until...um lets say Christmas! :)

Look, Addison's magic!

Butter

The other day without any prompting Addison told me that she wanted "butter". I had to ask her again what she wanted. Again, she said she wanted "butter". I had to ask her three times what she was asking for. Each time, she would say "butter". Finally, I was like "You want butter? Toast with butter?" She said no, she wanted "baby butter"!

No, I am not pregnant! I wanted to post this, so when we finally do give Addison a brother and she says she doesn't want him anymore, I can tell her she asked for it!

**Disclaimer**

Sorry about all the photos in the next couple of posts. I just can't ever seem to narrow them down when I go to put them online!

Froggy

The highlight of our Kansas trip was catching a frog. Addison and her little cousins caught this frog all by themselves and just had a blast playing with him.

Show mommy the frog.

Froggy is trying to escape. I would try harder, if I were him!

This is what it looks like to be a frog and be squeezed to death by a two year old!

Think you can get away from us frog? Think again! Three against one! Even the baby is in on the action

Don't you get away from me, frog!

Aunt Cheryl found pity on the frog (probably because I was hyperventilating, because the kids kept throwing, dropping and jumping on the frog) and put him down the drain. I have a feeling the frog is sitting at the bottom of the drain thinking "Aw, peace...finally!!!"