Swimming night

Reed and I decided to take the kids to family swim night at the pool. We all had a great time playing in the water. Fin hadn't been swimming since his swimming lessons last summer so he needed some time to get used to the water again. Ava seemed to like the water and loved playing with the straps on her huge life jacket. Reed and I took turns paddling the kids around. It was a fun evening, we'll have to go swimming more often so Fin and I can both get over our fear of water.

Tiger House

One of Fin's favorite things to do is to build forts with me. He likes to pretend that he is a tiger and calls his forts 'tiger houses'. Usually we just use the big couch to make a long hall and the ottoman to make a 'room'. This was the biggest tiger house we've made. Fin spent the whole afternoon crawling on the ground, growling and playing in his house. As you can see Fin filled 'his room' in the tiger house with all his toys and even made himself a bed.

The letter of the law

Fin is constantly testing the boundaries (and his parents patience). He is always trying to find loop holes in our rules so he can do what we say without doing what we want. If Fin were born in ancient Israel there would probably be a 'book of Fin' out there filled with all his crazy rationalizations.

example:

Rule: Don't hit Ava

Fin's Rationalization: If I hit Ava with a toy truck, then the toy truck hit her -- not me.

The New Rule: Don't hit Ava with your hands, feet, head, toys, chair ....ect.

Here is Fin observing our 'food stays in the kitchen' rule - by an inch or so.

Cake Class

About two months ago I was asked to teach an enrichment class on fondant cake decorating. Despite having plenty of time to plan and prepare I was really nervous about it. I had so many different techniques that I wanted to demonstrate but not much time. I decided on this cake design (inspired from one on cakes wrecks, sunday sweets) but was considering changing plans an hour before the class! There were about 25 ladies that showed up for the class. It was kind of intimidating making a cake with so many people watching. I didn't get to finish it during the class, because I wanted to move on to some different techniques but I felt like the everything went well. I felt like I was able to cover all the basics, and show people some of the fun possibilities they could accomplish with fondant.