The Adventures of Fin & Dash & Kell

Thursday, March 19, 2009

And A Dash of Dash

Although he didn't want to cooperate for any nice shots, I did get a cute one of him playing on the windowsill.

More Fin...

Because I was just too handsome today waiting for my open house at school :)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Playing with Daddy

Mommy had some work to do today so we got to play with Daddy! He's so fun!

Unfortunately for her, June had to walk the plank off of Jabba's Skiff...

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Cooking With Toddlers - Part 1

Today we met up at Monika's house to make "cake pops" (we got the idea from Bakerella).

So first you bake a cake, which Monika was smart enough to do in advance. Then you mash up the cake and mix it in with some icing...

(Fin just wanted to eat the icing, no idea where he gets that from!)

Cooking With Toddlers - Part 2

Then you watch TV and wait while the mommies take your cake mush and roll it into balls...

...And you wait some more while they dip sticks in melted chocolate and stick those in the balls...

...Then you wait some more while they dip those balls in chocolate and let them sit in the fridge to harden a bit...

Note: we forgot the all important Styrofoam to place the popsicle sticks in. Playdough (although a good idea) was NOT a recommended substitute. This photo was taken right before they all fell over and decorated the inside of Monika's fridge. Sorry Moni!

...And they're READY!
(Please excuse the shirtlessness, this was far too messy to involve sleeves of any kind!)

Cooking With Toddlers - Part 3 (The End)

After the pops are chilled, we got to decorate them. They were supposed to be smiley faces, but we took some artistic liberties with that...

Fin again wanted to simply eat the decorations...

Dash opted not to decorate and went straight for the eating...

And this is what happens when you feed kids waaaayyy too much sugar and let them stay up past nap time (note Maya in the background). However, this made for a VERY good nap!