Salad Party!!!

Yay, a salad party! Wait, what?

That's right. We got invited to a salad party at Zeke's school today. Not knowing what to expect, we showed up at the school and were led to Zeke's classrooms, where we saw a rather large group of adults seated in kids' chairs along the wall. We joined them and watched as the students were marched in wearing their special chef outfits.

The students gathered around a table filled with all sorts of salad items, some of which included peas, carrots, potatoes, and corn. They played some music and told the kids to make a salad until the music stopped. Some kids were piling their plates high with salad. One kid was crying. Zeke was slowing making himself a very very small salad.

Once the music stopped, the kids stopped making salad, and the kids were led one by one to their parents to give them a taste of their salad. Zeke, when he saw the first kids giving it to their parents, he started to sneak more food onto his plate, I guess knowing that he didn't have to eat it.

After most of the kids went, we got our bite of salad, exclaimed how good it was, and put a little paper metal around his neck. Then all the students were marched out, we were thanked for joining, and that was it. It took about half an hour, but it was fun, and definitely educational. (-:

New Years Party

Our New Year's Eve celebration in this house was nothing to blog about. However, Z had a costume party at school for the occasion! When they told us the children should dress up we asked, "Like spiderman?" knowing we had a spiderman costume at home. But, spiderman was unacceptable apparently. Luckily, Maw Maw and Paw Paw's Christmas present to Z came to the rescue and he went as a fireman!

And she is off . . .

Let's Have a Tea Party...

Kaiyah got a tea set from Zeke for Christmas and she really likes to play tea party with her baby, whose name, incidentally, is Baby. Today, she was playing and Dan turned on a kids' song called, "Let's Have a Tea Party." Kaiyah stood up and said, excitedly, "That my tea party song!" and then she asked it to be played over and over again. Fun stuff.

Sierra, continued...

Here's what Tami was talking about in the post below (read it if you haven't). Sierra loves the camera. She can be pitching a really big fit about something, and if we pick up the camera and take her picture, she immediately stops crying and starts smiling. Usually, we can't even get a picture of her when she's crying, but the picture below shows a progression of about 10 seconds. She's a mess.

Sierra is 6 months old!

Yesterday, Sierra was officially 6 months old. Where has the time gone? At six months, here's a little bit about Sierra:

* She can sit up for a few seconds, but isn't really stable yet.
* She is up on all fours and lunging around the living room. I have no doubt it will be a full blown crawl in no time.
* She loves to eat and is pretty good at feeding herself "fist foods."
* She does not like crowds . . . AT ALL. We discovered this Thanksgiving Day, and it was confirmed again last night at our Christmas party. Our typically laid back, happy baby becomes pretty hysterical in crowds, to the point of being a challenge to calm down. It's the strangest thing. She has also developed 'stranger anxiety', crying whenever someone she doesn't know well talks to her. Notable exceptions, there have been several 30-something single guys that she has been perfectly happy to spend the evening sitting in their laps.
* She is her daddy's girl, whenever she is crying, Dan gets out the camera to take a picture and she IMMEDIATELY starts smiling. She's a mess!

From the mouths of babes

Picture Tami in the kitchen washing dishes . . .

Zeke: Can you play with me?

Kaiyah: Can you hold me?

Tami: Do I look like I can play with Zeke or hold Kaiyah?

Zeke: God should have given you 100 hands so you can do everything your kids want.