Activities

Each day I try to do some type of craft with the big kids. Some days it is something we can eat others craft or puzzles etc. etc. 

Some weeks they are themed around a letter or upcoming holiday. Sometimes just random.

Here are a few we have made recently (when I remembered to take pictures).

Pumpkin Rice Krispie cakes. We plan on taking these to our play date tomorrow.

Fall trees!

Legos

Cakes for Auntie Beth's birthday.

Started out beautiful.

Then turned into masterpieces!

Goodnight

The Midnight Mommy Call

It's midnight and you hear Mommy, mommy coming from the big kids room and think if I ignore it she will go back to sleep. No luck. So you stumble out of bed and open the door and you are hear Mommy I peed the bed. You think how is that possible you have a pull-up on. Then remember you did not check to make sure it was pulled up all the way last night, yup sure enough it's not on all the way and yes the bed is wet, pj, kid you get the picture. You feel and around to find the beloved pink blanket somehow it has escaped the pee, thankfully. do you:

A) run a tub to wash child off, change bedding and remake bed?- if you picked this one you forgot that all this commotion would wake up the other child still sound asleep on bed and take way to long, and cut your already few precious hours of sleep in half.

B) change child put into your bed, move second child into your bed. Remake bed. Realize that now both kids have fallen asleep in your bed and sleep in kids bed for rest of night. - if you picked this one you are not sleep deprived enough. You know that in the next 2 hours you will probably be getting up with the baby.

C) change pjs on child and put a towel over wet spot deal with rest in the morning. - ding ding the answer is always c!

Plachinda -Updated

Dad called me after I had sent a picture of our pumpkins to him saying I should make Plachinda. I had no idea what it was... He said that his Grandma (my great grandma) used to make it all the time and his Mom made it a few times but not as much. 

So I went on a google mission to find a recipe for pumpkin plachinda (seriously what did we do before google?).  I successfully found a recipe. 

I knew the recipe should be close to what his grandma made as it had cream as the first ingredient. And enough flour to make a stiff dough. Sounds like something out of grandmas recipe book or lack of book!

So once i found a recipe we had to try it. verdict... Kids loved the plachinda, and I sent some out to the combine for Dad. I have not heard if it is right yet. I am sure it won't be like his grandmas and probably does not look as perfect but I think it turned out great for the first time. I will wait for the expert to let me know though.

We had a bit of extra dough so we also made a few apple ones. I think this may become a new fall tradition (when the pumpkins are ready for the eating).

http://www.tasty-german-recipe.com/german-plachinda-pumpkin-turnovers-recipe.html

Update: apparently they are very close to what Dad's grandma made, she put a bit more cinnamon in. Must have been okay as they seem to be disappearing quickly.

Letter W

This week we were entertained by the letter W. 

We painted with worms, made windmills and watermelons.

And splashed in the Water.

Pumpkin Crop

The Post About Sleep

Just imagine if every baby and child received 10 to 12 hrs of solid sleep a night. Next imagine of every adult got 8 hours of solid sleep a night. What a wonderful world it would be.  This is not the case in our household.

Well Will and Maddy typically get 10 hours of sleep per night.  Abigail had been sleeping fairly good as in up once or twice a night. However, since her two month shots she has been up almost every hour after her first stretch of sleep which is typically 9:30 to 1:00. Yes, we have been seeing every hour from 1:00 in the morning until we are up for the day. I use the royal we but basically me, even if Chris tries to help she just yells at him. If I go in she nurses for less than five minutes I hold her for another 15 or so to make sure she is asleep then lay her down ever so carefully and repeat an hour later.

Here is to hoping that she returns to getting up once or twice a night. That I can deal with, until then we will continue to live in our sleep deprived state as much of the world does.