{hands full of happiness}: Easter Basket

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

19 March 2010

Easter Basket

Today my friend Sarah came over with her two boys to make Easter Baskets. We thought it would be a great craft for our older boys to do, but it turned out way too messy, so it became a Mommy craft day while the boys played with the costumes. We had fun, regardless, and the Easter Baskets turned out great.

First we heated 2 1/2 cups of sugar with 1 cup of water over the stove.

We even got a little help from Buzz Lightyear and a Dragon.

Then we soaked crochet cotton in the sugar water and wrapped it around balloons.

This is about halfway done. We used about 300 yards of thread between the two balls, and probably could have used more. We will wait for them to dry, pop the balloons, cut out a hole, and put them out for the Easter Bunny to fill on Easter morning. Tons of fun!

7 comments:

CherylMarch 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM
Fun! I wish I lived closer then we could have come over and you could have seen the butt-less chaps justin got me...
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child of the universeMarch 20, 2010 at 10:19 PM
i want the recipe! i'm pretty sure i used to lick mom's easter baskets she made when she was a new mom...yes...20 years later...it still tasted sweet and yummy!
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JennyMarch 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Cheryl - Oh how I wish I could see the chaps!

Holly - You should have seen Eli licking it while we were making it. I asked him not to, and while he was nodding "yes" his tongue was involuntarily sticking out to lick it. He just couldn't help himself.
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The PrattsMarch 21, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Cute idea! It looks like you always have good projects for you and Eli. I might have to steal your pine cone feeder idea...only with sunbutter instead of PB to avoid anaphylaxis!
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JennyMarch 21, 2010 at 9:52 PM
It's always good to avoid anaphylaxis! Watch out for those squirrels though.
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AnonymousMarch 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM
Such a great project. Your son looks so intense working on it! I got the postcard in today's mail. It's so sweet! Thank you for creating this. Please send me your address so I can mail mine to you.

Deborah
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heidiMarch 22, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Jenny, my dear! I am so glad you posted a comment on my blog so now I can read yours too! This is the cutest idea. Where do you learn things like this? I miss you guys too, you have no idea. The ward is just not the same without the Wiebes. Hope all is well in Washington. Can't wait to see you in May!
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