Easy-Baking

When Bella turned five, we had a pretty big birthday party for her.  Lots of kids!  The result?  Lots of presents!  I strategically hid a bunch of them in the attic and reintroduced them throughout the year.  One Saturday morning, Bella went snooping around in the attic and came down with this Easy-Bake Microwave.  At the sight of it, I knew that this was how we'd be spending our morning.

We began with the cakes - pouring and mixing and spooning out batter.

Graydon was getting a bit too involved for Bella's liking, so we occupied him with some Play-Doh. 

Cook time: 30 seconds

And the result: the cutest, sweetest, littlest cakes.

She made them for Daddy. . .  after sampling a little bit herself, of course.

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I'm afraid that's all I have for pictures this week.  But here's some other stuff that we've been up to:

• Graydon is wearing underwear full-time while we're at home - though I'm not quite brave enough to take him out without a pull-up on just yet.
• Curtis has molars in his mouth now
• our wagon was stolen
• a different wagon reappeared  few days later
• Bella had two playdates at two different friends' houses - without me
• a stomach virus invaded our home affecting all of us except Graydon
• Bella had picture day at school

And the big one which has pretty much occupied a lot of my free time these past couple of weeks is my new Etsy store!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/smookiedoo

I'm selling my crochet hats.  This store is my plan for getting enough money to take our family to Disney World.  After being open for just a few weeks, I've already reached 10% of my goal!  So far so good!