Random Picture Challenge 6.0

Four Little Men and Girly Twins' Random Picture Challenge.

This weeks challenge (version 6.0) is to post the 3rd picture from your January 2007 (or 13th) picture folder.

Join in! It's SUPER fun!

These are the gingerbread houses that Jason and I made with the boys before Christmas. The picture is in my January file, because I took this picture right before I threw the gingerbread houses in the garbage!! I think most people like to eat their gingerbread houses, but ours were made our of graham crackers {which were probably extremely stale} and had been used for decorations for a week or two. Not my idea of a yummy snack!! You can tell they had been sitting out for a while....took at the melting peppermint on the house on the left!

A Cute Little Box

Henry's teacher sent home a note about two weeks ago, asking us to send in a decorated box for their Valentine's Day party. Because we were packing for Disney and then out of town all last week, we were a few days late getting started on his box. We worked on it Tuesday afternoon and then took it to school on Wednesday {I think everyone else brought theirs in on Monday}. Actually, Jason wrapped the box for me Monday night {he is much better at that kind of thing...straight edges and nice creased lines...than I am}. Henry and I decorated his box the next day with lots of red and white stickers {and few things that had to be hot glued on}.

His box turned out pretty cute, considering we just used some old craft stuff I had around the house. I think I may save this box and let him use it again next year, because you know they will be doing the whole Valentine mailbox thing in Kindergarten too!!

Henry had his very first Valentine's Day party at preschool today.

And I forgot my camera.

But I did get this picture of the inside of his Valentine's box and all the goodies he brought home.

He got all kinds of cute stuff....pencils, candy, bubbles, and cards! I think I am going to keep one or two or the cards....since these are the first Valentine's he has gotten from someone other than me or Jason!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Homemade Baby Food

Eli has been ready to eat baby food for a while now.

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But every time I feed him the store bought stuff {which has only been like 4 times} he seems to get a weird rashy place on his face.

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So, I decided I should stop torturing my child with yucky baby food and make him some homemade stuff instead.

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I looked for some 'recipes' for homemade baby food online, but all I found were a few sites that told you to peel, core, slice, boil, and puree the apples. I may not be a cooking genius, but I kinda already knew to do that part....I guess I just wanted to make sure I was doing it right!

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I picked up a 5 pound bag of apples at the store yesterday and started working on my first attempt at applesauce around 5 yesterday afternoon.

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Eli was hanging out in the stroller watching me prep the apples.

I put the applesauce in some glass container and then stuck all but one of them in the freezer for later. This morning I tried to feed Eli some of the applesauce, but he wasn't too impressed. He actually gagged a few times, so I think that the applesauce may be too thick. I guess I will have to either thin it out a little bit or try to process it a little more to make it smoother.
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While we were waiting on the apples to cool a little, I made him some bananas {which he really liked!!}. The bananas were a lot easier to make because all you have to do is process them {no peeling, chopping, or cooking}. Eli may be eating a lot of bananas especially if he keeps gagging on my applesauce!!