Popcorn Treats

Brenna just loves helping me cook so I thought it might be fun to make a little snack/treat that she could do almost all by herself. The recipe was called maple walnut berry popcorn balls but alas they never actually turned out to be popcorn balls. More like caramel popcorn with nuts and dried cherries but it was Oh so good! The hardest part was having to wait for the maple syrup on the popcorn to harden in the refrigerator...took forever! But was well worth the wait.

Patterns

Is anybody else in the holiday spirit a tad bit early? I am! Of course this is no surprise. This is something that happens every year to me. As soon as Halloween is over I'm ready to "deck the halls" so to speak and poor Thanksgiving just doesn't have a chance! So for the most part I've held off on everything Christmas related up until the past few days. I figure Thanksgiving is pretty close so why not? I'm taking it in slow steps...doing a little bit at a time so by the time Thanksgiving has come and gone, all we have to worry about is our tree. Brenna and I decided to make a Christmas chain for the playroom. I started the pattern red...green...red...green... After a few links I asked Brenna what color came next and to my surprise she kept the pattern going like a pro! I had no idea she would be able to do that! What a smart cookie! :)

A letter to our YaYa

Yesterday we spent the morning making pictures for YaYa with the Thanksgiving stickers she sent the girls. Boy do my girls LOVE stickers! And then Brenna and I wrote YaYa a letter. That was fun but a little more challenging then I had thought. Brenna really didn't get the concept at first so it took a lot of explaining and "Do you want to say....?" By the end of the letter she was spouting things that I didn't coerce out of her but I do think letter writing is not our strength as of yet!

My little Mommy

Ever since I started watching this sweet little baby named Marcus a few days a week Brenna has been absolutely fascinated by and entralled with anything to do with Babies...baby dolls...baby Marcus and baby Holly in my tummy...anything and everything baby she's all about! And according to her, she also has a baby Holly in her tummy! haha She walks around the house with her baby doll wrapped in blankets and seems to always know when her baby is hungry. She will put her baby to bed, close the door, walk into the living room and then say with much enthusiasm, "The baby is awake!" and run back to comfort her baby doll. It's so cute to watch her pretend to be a little Mommy! She spends much of her days ogling over Marcus saying, "Your so cute" and "Hi little one" and making him smile and giggle. I can't wait to see how you reacts to having a new baby sister! It's going to be a completely new experience for her this time around! I think Lacey will do alright with it too. She's obviously a little less enthusiastic about sharing me but has done so much better then I ever expected. Having little Marcus a few days a week has been such a great practice run for having 3 and I have to say for the most part, I think the whole idea of being a mommy of 3 as terrifying as it felt at first, now seems like not a big deal at all! I'm doing it 3 days a week and am finding it to be more then doable! Now of course I'm not dealing with the lack of sleep as of yet...or the many other little things that come along with a new little one but I am more then optimistic that this is going to be an awesome journey! Only 13 weeks left to go!

Time for raking

We spent the morning raking the back yard. Since we had one of our large trees fall down last winter, it wasn't nearly as much work as it was last fall! That made us all very happy! :)

Letter from Ya-Ya

Wednesday something special arrived in the mail...a letter to Brenna Boo from Ya Ya! Brenna's first letter! Although Brenna wasn't feeling her best that day (she was running a fever poor thing) she was ecstatic! She was especially excited about the stickers which are cute as can be! Thursday we made a special picture just for Ya Ya which we are going to mail to her Monday. What fun!

Our first snow!

Look at what I woke up to this morning! WOW! Winter is on our door step! It sure was pretty watching the huge snow flakes falling from the sky. I guess my southern side still gets giddy when the first few flakes fall! But we all know come January the snow isn't nearly as exciting...it just means being stuck inside with lots of shoveling to do! I really do love this time of year ...love it to pieces til January...then I'm sick of winter and ready to move to somewhere warmer. :)