My Junior Assistant

Addie want to become my new baking assistant.  For a three year old, she's a pretty darn good helper too:

Our cherry cupcakes turned out really well!

Okay...it's hot up here in Folsom...even our cat can't handle the heat sometimes:

This is how I feel a LOT of the time up here...it's HOT...ALWAYS HOT!  BLAH....even with air conditioning it's hot.  We are right on the golf course and the crazy part is that there are ALWAYS golfers out there, even when it's 105...no thank you.  Nope, not me.  Ever.   Our neighbors, who are very nice, are always outside too!  I mean, it's HOT out people, really hot out.  We just peak out from our windows at them.  I bet they think we're a bunch of recluses.  I miss the fog...a lot.

This is Addie just being cute...couldn't resist :)

Something in the Water up here?

There's got to be something in the water, something in the air, somethin...

Both kids fell asleep before naptime this week.  With Andrew, this isn't shocking.  My son likes loves his sleep, he's like his mom in that area.  He's not fond of the heat, again, like his mom.  And when you mix a ride on a barely air conditioned school bus with 105 degrees weather outside, this is what you may get:

He crashed out, at the table, while having a snack one day after school. 

Now, Addison, she's not one to fall asleep.  She may miss something.  Anything.  Sleeping is not on her top 10 favorite activities, not by a long shot.  But, she just started preschool and she's been fighting a cold, so the girl has been busy!

She was reading a magazine with me...apparently the magazine put her to sleep!

What a Month will do

Wow...we've been in Folsom for a month now...some odds and ends that have happened in this first month:

• Andrew is in school
• Addison is in preschool 3 mornings a week
• Addison has made a new friend
• Our house is pretty cool
• It's really really hot up here....I miss the fog!
• Andrew now sleeps in a bed
• Addison is growing out of her naps...boohoo!
• One of our kitties has already escaped...
• Allie LOVES her new gym!
• The kids have lots of fun with the neighbor kids
• Andrew already knows the way to Costco and his school
• Allie is the first one to go to the dr. (hurt wrist at gym)
• I have only gotten truly lost once (knock on wood).
• The kids don't like to play in the backyard because of all the bees.

I'm sure there's more.....but I'm too tired to think of anything else at the moment!

Quiz Time

What happens when you put the following items together:

• Night light
• Safety Pin
• Light socket

Here's a hint:

I'd have pictures of the night light and half melted away safety pin, but those have been thrown away before I could take pictures.

So, which of my inquisitive children tried this hair raising, death defying experiment?

 

Yep, if you guessed Addison, you guessed right!  We got up the other morning, and since Addie's door sticks, she can't open the door to let us know that she is awake.  I went in and she told me that her light popped when she tried to take it out.  Silly me, I thought she was just trying to take the nightlight out to be helpful.  Nope.  Somewhere she found a safety pin, thought it would be neat to put everything together and stick it in the light socket, and blew a fuse.

This is the same child that disassembled Dan's little flashlight that he kept on a key chain so he could see in the  dark...if we could just get her to put that same enthusiasm to..oh, let's say, putting on her own clothes!

Beating the Heat

Okay.  Dan got out of helping and let me tell ya, he owes us BIG!  With the latest heat wave Allie and I decided to blow up the big pool so everyone could cool off.  We have a manual air pump, so it shouldn't be too hard, right?  WRONG

It took us over an hour to blow the mammoth thing up...one looong, tedious hour.  But we got it.  Even though I was silently berating Dan for weaseling out working, it was worth it and the kids loved it so much they didn't even bother fighting!!!