Fat lip

Filed under:Kids — posted by mystique on 12/16/2008 @ 4:52 pm

Well today I had a brilliant idea, NOT. I gave the girls some string and they proceeded to make the worlds largest spider web. Several times during construction Landis got stuck in the string. Finally Lela was in my room and Piper was running out of my room with some string, Lela gave it a good yank and Piper was clothes lined and on the floor with a fat lip. It was a doosy of a lip too, lots of blood and nice and swollen. We are icing it now so if it stays big and ugly I will photograph it for all to see.

Cookies!

Filed under:Kids — posted by mystique on @ 3:30 pm

Today the girls and I made cookies, lots of cookies. We made gingerbread and sugar dough for roll out cookies that we will make tomorrow, we also made chocolate chip cookies and sand tarts (or Mexican wedding cookies depending on where you are from). Yesterday we made sweet chex mix and savory chex mix. The holiday spirit is in full effect at the Haslups.

Today as we were making the cookies Lela and Piper were helping me roll the sand tarts and put them on the tray. When we finished our tray was overflowing so I explained that we had to put some on another tray so they would cook evenly. You would think I had announced Armageddon. Lela was in tears at the thought of splitting the cookies on to two trays. I put on my best parenting hat and tried to understand why it was so upsetting, I explained why we had to do it with graphics and all. She was still upset, finally a little cuddling helped her to calm down. For the life of me I don’t think I will ever understand her.

So instead of trying to understand I think I will hop her up on sugar, LOL. As if that was possible. Lela will take one bite of something sweet and move on while Piper will literally lick dough off the floors!



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace