we've been to school and the library

Kylie started Mother's Morning Out a couple of weeks ago. She goes from 9:30 - 1:05 on Thursday mornings. She seems to love it. Last Thursday was "A" day and she got to paint with apples. It's nice to have a little bit of time to myself, but the nicest part is going to get her and having her glad to see me. Like today, I got off work early and when I came home, she said "Mommy, I missed you".
We also went to the library the other day and she got to meet Biscuit the dog. She was so good there, I think we're going to start going to Barnes and Noble for story hour every week.

I'm too old for this...........

This has been a crazy 30 or so days for us. First, she was bit by the spider. Then she ended up with double ear infections. Last Wednesday, I picked her up from the babysitter's and she had teeth marks on her arm (from the other little girl at the babysitter's). Saturday evening she was bit by a mosquito on the forehead. These pictures are the result of the bite. I've come to the sad conclusion that I'm too old for all of this!

Blues Clues Cookies

Tonight we made Blues Clues cookies.
Kylie's been watching Joe a lot on the computer so it fit right in. We frosted them right after dinner, note the ketchup under the frosting on the face.
She actually had a lot of fun, for someone who doesn't like having her fingers dirty. When I got her out of her seat, she had a cookie stuck to the side of her leg. That she didn't like. I wanted to send half of them to my nephew in Michigan, but I'm not quite sure how to get them there without being broken into a ton of pieces.

Grandma Zwolinski would be proud

Yesterday, I decided to try canning tomatoes with Kylie. I was hesitant to try it, but the thought of not having canned tomatoes was far more disconcerting than what I was about to attempt. I set Kylie up at the sink with some cups and spoons and let her play with the tomatoes. She actually did really well. She filled up the bowl with tomatoes for me so that I didn't have to reach across her. She played in the water for about 1 1/2 hours and then moved on to other things, as you can see from the pictures. I laid a towel out on the floor for her to eat, since there wasn't room for her at the table, and she decided to sit on the potty chair and watch Barney while she ate. Then, she lounged on the couch with a bowl of M & Ms while she watched Blues Clues. We ended up getting 20 quarts of tomatoes. I'm sad to say for the first time I actually had a jar break on me while processing. I also was able to peel and freeze a bushel of roasted green chilies while she slept. I think this weekend we're going to attempt peach and apple pie filling. Will keep you posted on how that went.