Jordan playing in a box

This is Jordan at the Discovery Science Museum. These balls bounce all around! So fun.

Jordan playing in a box.

Lizzy's Cooking Skills

Lizzy likes to help me cook. Here she is helping me make chicken pot pie.

Usually it's Lizzy's job to stir. This day she wanted to help me cook, but I had already done the cooking for the day! So I gave her something else to stir. It's cereal. We also couldn't find her little apron, so she is wearing a bib as a substitute. I don't have a picture of her apron here, but there's one of it hanging on the Christmas tree in a previous post.

Speaking of cooking I would like to share an awesome discovery! I saw this bacon at Walmart and decided to try it out. I think I will never buy regular packages of bacon again! This has packages of 4 strips of bacon and a paper towel in a sealed plastic bag. You put the package in the microwave and you get your nice pieces of cooked bacon!

There are so many PRO's to this bacon package.

1. You don't have to touch or peal the slimy uncooked bacon.

2. You don't have to open the entire pound of bacon at once.

3. You don't have to decide what to do with the REST of that pound of bacon after you have cooked those few strips that you need.

4. You don't have find another way to bag up the REST of that pound of bacon so you don't have an open package of bacon in the fridge.

5. You don't have to decide if you are going to cook it on the stove top - which seems like a nicer way than just microwaving it, but then your house doesn't get all smokey! And I like the smell of bacon, so the house smelling like bacon is okay, but I don't like the greasy smell. yuck.

6. You can cook just 4 pieces at a time. Just enough for 2 BLT's.

7. No slimy hot dishes to clean up. (You just throw away the plastic that you cook it in.)

8. No slimy microwave to scrub.

It costs about $6, when the normal bacon costs $3-$4. If you value each "pro" above as $0.25, then you come out even. =)

We finally converted Lizzy's room from a boy's room to a girl's room.

The Zebra and the Giraffe

At church this week, right after the Sacrament was passed, Lizzy looked at me and asked for "mayonnaise?"

Sometimes when she's hungry she'll say, "Mayonnaise? Bread? Meat?" Her little priorities are a bit out of order.

Lizzy likes to jump on this spare twin bed that we have in her room. Jordan likes to watch her.

Lizzy and I made this necklace with beads from JoAnn's.

This giraffe and zebra from Jessie's family are Lizzy's little pals. She takes them around with her, she sleeps with them, and here she is reading to them.

They also show up on my kitchen counter sometimes.

Sometimes she accidentally puts them in the SINK. The zebra had a near death experience yesterday, actually. Rather than being dropped into the sink, he was thrown up on top of the halogen lamp and got a bit singed. He has a bad little ulcer now, but he's still fun to play with. This morning, in fact, he was dancing with Lizzy.

This is Lizzy pelting the missionaries with bean bags. This is a "fun" game that Daddy taught her.

I had some nice church music playing and Lizzy started dancing. It was so cute!

We locked the kids in the living room while we were cutting Morgan's hair. It's funny how they gravitate to wherever we are, even if we are doing NOTHING and we are on the opposite side of the house as their TOYS.

Vaseline vs. Peanut Butter

I walked into the living room and found Lizzy with the vaseline jar. It was all over her hands, clothes, hair, and couch. I could not believe my eyes. (This is a picture from another episode.)

Morgan washed her hair TWICE with normal baby shampoo. I think this achieved nothing but distributing the vaseline evenly throughout her hair.

I washed her hair for the third time that night with hand soap. Her hair still felt slimy and looked like it was wet.

The next morning I looked online and decided to try peanut butter. After a few goops I realized that crunchy peanut butter wasn't going to work. Elizabeth didn't appreciate the exfoliating property.

Luckily the missionaries had some creamy peanut butter, so we continued the fourth washing. It helped a little bit.

That night I did another peanut butter wash, but I was much more generous with the peanut butter. =) This fifth washing worked pretty well.

We followed up with a sixth washing - normal shampoo - careful not to get it in her eyes. This time her hair turned out rather normal looking… normal as in "not washed after a dose of yogurt" normal.

Lizzy hates getting her hair washed. But after the seventh wash with normal baby shampoo she was nice and clean. If you don't count the yogurt, that is.