Uh-oh, I might be in trouble...

Yesterday I was reading my parenting magazine. It is one of my favorite magazines. This Visa add caught my eye - it said: "Good parenting begins with closet space." I was like, what? Somehow "closet space" never made my list of top 3 important parenting traits. I could just picture Scooter saying when he gets older..."Well, my parents didn't do such and such, but they had Closet Space!!" I definitely think it's important to be clean and organized (yeah, definitely not perfect at that yet, ha ha!) but I think Scooter is going to be ok, even if we don't have a ton of closet space. Who knows, though?! Maybe I'm wrong and this is the answer that parents have been searching for for years! Who knew the secret to good parenting was closet space?!

A Fun Day at Nanas!

Yesterday we spent the afternoon at my moms house. She has a really cute little pool that we filled up - Derek really liked playing with the hose while the pool was filling up! He had a fun time swimming, too. He just loves to be outside and he loves the water! After swimming we rode the plasma car for a while. I didn't know he could ride it by himself, usually I ride it with him. But he just climbed on and started going - it was so cute! Later on that night Ryan's sister Katelynn came over for dinner. She just came out here to go to school - and it's so fun to have her close by! Ryan's entire family is coming out next week, and we are really looking forward to a fun visit!

I thought this picture was so cool - how the water is flying through the air! He had so much fun with the hose! On the plasma car, all by himself.
Scooter & Auntie Katelynn. He was helping her with her computer. Don't ya love his tan lines?!

Biking

A few years ago Ryan and I bought bikes and we have really enjoyed biking together! Recently we bought a little seat for Scooter so Ryan can pull him behind his bike. He likes going for rides - now! The first few times we went he wasn't so sure if he liked it. A few days ago we went for a ride, and Scooter fell fast asleep! Isn't he so cute?!

Edible Playdough!

I have been wanting to try edible playdough for a while, but I wasn't sure if Scooter would really want to play with it! So we decided to make some this morning - and he loved it! It was so fun to watch him. I got out some cookie cutters and showed him how to smash the playdough and then press the cookie cutter into it, and he did exactly that right after I showed him! He had a really fun time playing with, and eating, the playdough. It actually tasted pretty good (yep, I tried some too!). I think he kind of got a kick out of it, that he could play with it and eat it too! (Just fyi, the recipe I used was: 1 cup peanut butter, 1/2 cup honey and 2 cups powdered sugar. Actually, I halfed that recipe because we didn't need that much!)

Let's Make Cookies!

Last night Scooter and I decided to try out a new cookie recipe! (oatmeal, tofee choc.chip - they turned out pretty yummy!) This is Scooter helping me while we were baking cookies! It was so funny - he took everything out of the drawers! We had one drawer of just candy, and of course he was thrilled when he found that one! He's probably thinking, "We should bake some more, Mom!"

Book Club!

So it was book club again last night! We read "The Westing Game" this month - and it is such a fun book! I really like it a lot! Usually for book club we (my Mom, Lins, Aubs, Erica and Me) go to dinner and talk about the book! Or we cook dinner at my moms and talk about the book! We were at my moms last night and we had a lot of fun! Something about being in the kitchen messes with your ears, though! Lins kept hearing what we were saying wrong! This happened last time we had book club at my moms, too. Erica said something about "martial arts," and Lins said: "March Larch? What is march larch?!" Tee hee! How funny! While we were having book club, Ry took Derek to feed the ducks and to get a frosty! What an Awesome daddy!!

A Proud Moment!

A few nights ago I went into our room and there was Scooter - reading a book! It made me so happy!!