Giant Pancakes

This morning I made the kids chocolate chip pancakes.

The other day when I made pancakes I made Joshua a big one since he is always wanting more & I was trying to get them moving for school.

Of course Nathaniel saw it & wanted one so I told him next time.

They were both pretty excited to get these huge pancakes. 

Joshua had no problem finishing it, plus scrambled eggs.

Nathaniel ate over half of his and some eggs & he was stuffed.

Grace didn't get a big one, but she was fine with that :) 

Making Pizzas...

Grace loves pizza.  It is pretty much the only food she will eat with any consistency.

Usually in layers...topping, cheese, and then crust with sauce.

But at least she eats it.

She doesn't like meat at all,

in any way I fix it really,

but if it's pepperoni on a pizza...

yep, she'll eat it.

(No such luck with ham though)

So one day she grabbed a bag of felt shapes off of my shelf,

and a bag of disposable nursing pads leftover from when I nursed her.

I had been going to throw them away, but never did, figuring I'd find some kind of use for them someday.

Well, Grace found a use for them.

She put a couple of shapes on one,

handed to me and grinned and said,

"Pizzie party!"

followed by her cute little,

"Tee hee!"

she likes to say when she's being silly.

So now, every few days,

she grabs her "pizzie" supplies

and makes pizza for us.

There can never be more than 3 shapes per pizza.

She gets mad if I try to put more on.

Three is actually pushing it, she prefers to only put two on.

She is so fun.

Geocaching...

Last Saturday afternoon, we decided to go geocaching.  We hadn't gone in quite a while. We decided to head out past Callahan where we hadn't gone before. I hadn't been to that "edge" of the Valley in probably 20 years. Brian and the kids had never been there. We found 2 of the 3 we were looking for. We'll go back and look for the other one another day when it's warmer and lighter (it was 5 pm).  Besides the two geocaches, we also found the spine to some kind of large animal. (I'm hoping it was an animal...I've been watching too much CSI and reruns of Cold Case, I think).  I didn't take a picture of that - should've.
The kids thought the "dinosaur" rocks were pretty neat. One of the geocaches was hidden behind the larger of the two "dinos". Another day, in the summer, we'll go further up Scott Mountain.
We had Joshua take a picture of us too...I think the camera added back the 10 pounds I've lost in the past two months...darn it. We really enjoy geocaching...it's fun time together, plus it gets us out and exploring where we live.