Feeding the geese

I took Kaitlyn, William, and the little girl I babysit to Cooper Creek Park to feed the ducks yesterday. There were alot more geese than ducks and they were honking loudly. The girls were a little scared. William didn't make any noise, he just watched them intently as I held him and took some pictures.

Smashing Pumpkin Cookies

Yesterday the girls wanted to make some cookies, and I decided to use the Halloween pan for making mini Halloween cakes or cookies. To make things faster, I decided to use the tub of cookie dough I have in the refridgerator I keep for quick desserts. (Like we need easy access desserts, right?)
Anyway, I asked the girls, "What color should the pumpkins be?" Kaitlyn being barely 4, and her friend being only 3, thought that pumpkins should be red or purple. So I asked,
"What color are pumpkins?" They decided that pumpkins really are orange. So then I said,
"Well we don't have orange food coloring, but we do have red and yellow. What could happen if we mix them together?"
They had no idea, but were up to the challenge of trying it out to see.
We placed a little of the cookie dough in a bowl, and we squirted a few drops of red and yellow food coloring on it. Then they both helped me stir it around. All the while we were trying to guess what color it would become. Finally we saw that red and yellow in the cookie dough made orange cookie dough!! Science lesson learned.
Next came the fun part of smashing the dough into the pans, cooking them and eating them. Yummy fun!

"Promised Land" instead of "Candy Land"

For Family Home Evening last night I made our own version of Candy Land. I called it "Journey to the promised Land". I took colored construction paper and arranged it on the ground like a giant candy land board. Then I covered it with clear contact paper so that it wouldn't come apart when we stepped on it. Then I made a "dice" or "color cube" by covering a giant square block with the same colors as the path. (you can also use a square shaped box taped together so it's even and smooth on all sides) With each roll of the dice they had to answer a question that had to do with Nephi's adventures up until he and his family got to America. We've been reading the Book of Mormon to our kids every night before bed since Alan was 3 and Sarah was 2. We've gone through it almost 3 times now. So I wanted to see how well they knew the beginning of the book. We had 9 different sections on the board identified with pictures and the questions coincided with the sections (notice the white papers stuck to the board).
The sections were : Getting the brass plates, Nephi's vision on the mountain, The Tree of Life vision, Going back for Ishmael's family, The Liahona, The broken bow, Building the ship, The trials on the ship, then the end was reaching the Promised Land. And the Promised Land was eating dessert in the kitchen. (: We like dessert :)
Needless to say, the kid's loved it. And they did suprisingly well on knowing the answers to the questions. If anyone wants a copy of the questions we used, just post a comment about it here.

Vietnamese Lunch

Tom took me to a vietnamese restauraunt for lunch. It was called, "Phov'y". The food was really good. Among other things, they serve these giant bowls of soup with noodles, chicken, seafood, vegetables. They give you some spicy soup-like sauce that you pour in your soup to give it more "heat". Tom got the soup. I got a pork dish that came with rice. It also had on lettuce, thinly sliced carrots, cucumbers and a fried egg on the side. The egg was sunny side up and part of the egg white was still clear. That was a little scary to eat. But everything was good. We also got eggrolls as an appetizer. You place the eggroll on a big lettuce leaf, then place carrots, and bean sprouts next to it, then roll it all together. Then you dip it into the spicy sauce. Yummy!