Raymond made this train out of legos.  I only helped with the cow catcher and getting the wheels to stay on.  That's it.  He is one talented almost 3 year old. 

Baby's First Food

Lucia tried egg yolks today! MMMmmm... I think she likes it!

Lazy Saturday

The super rainy weather we are having has motivated us to take a lazy day today. We've hung out in our pjs all morning while Kenny finished all his grading duties. He finished at lunch time so we are now free to enjoy him for the rest of the weekend! Raymond finds it entertaining to use this lazy time to take all the pillows and blankets from around the house and pretend to "sleep." I wish he would do it for real every once in a while, too, but that is a different story. Here is a picture of him climbing into Lucia's bed with all the pillows from ours. (Don't worry, she wasn't in there at the time!) Oh, and one of him giving his sister a kiss. You can see how much she liked it, too.

Happy Easter!

Easter Egg Dyes

This year for Easter, we experimented with earth tones for our egg dying. We used foods to make our own dyes! It was so fun to use products that we either already had or things that we use often and show Raymond what cool things can happen with things we usually eat! We had a great time making the dyes and seeing how they turned out! We used beets, beet greens, purple cabbage, yellow onion skins, and turmeric. By far my favorite was the yellow onion skins, which seems to be a common favorite among most who try it. The onion skins made the rusty orange color. My second favorite was the turmeric. It made the yellow color. Keep in mind we used brown eggs, because that is what we had- so I'm sure these would be completely different with white eggs. The purple/maroon color was the beets. The blueish gray was the cabbage (but I don't think I made it concentrated enough. I just used what we had, which wasn't quite enough. The brownish was from the beet greens. I found it interesting that the colors changed after a while in the fridge (Kenny tells me this is because the dye was oxidized?) Overall, we had a blast and we will definitely be doing it again!