Candy time!

It just isn't fall to me without candy and carmel apples!

It has been a long time tradition in my family to vi sit apple hill every year, come home, and mak these tasty treats! I like to share that with the kids, and the older ones get a laugh out of my stories about my little sisters. So this week we made both kinds of apples! The kids helped me measure out all the ingrediants for the candy "sauce" and got to watch me gook it on the stove. We then melted our carmel and I let the kids pick which kind they wanted! Suprise surprise, the girls piked the "pink" sauce, and the boys picked the carmel. After lunch time that day I sliced one of each and let them try both! They had no trouble eating apples that day =)


I also let these crazy kids paint with pumpkin yogurt!

We added pumpkin puree to organic vanilla yogurt and stirred it..... and kept stirring it! I made sure everyone could eat it, because I knew once they figured out it tasted good the painting would stop. And it did! They had a great time being allowed to play with thier food and get messy. A moto I picked up from Christy- let them get messy! And so we did. We covered ourselves in yogurt, ate yogurt, made pictures withyogurt. We drew letters and numbers and our mommies and families. We had a great time cooking this week!

Pumpkin Time

This month is Harvest Month here at Jibber-Jabber and we are having lots of fun with all the things that includes!

Last week the kids made Pumpkin Bread! They measured everything from the flour to the spices, cracked the eggs, poured in the water, and even mixed everything up! They were covered with cooking supplies by the end of it but they had so much fun! We baked our bread into muffins and I was so nervous the kids would be hesitant to try something we have never served before. They LOVED it! The muffins were not small by any means and they all asked for more! Pumpkin bread was a hit!

We also went to Goblin Gardens Pumpin Patch! The kids went a little wild when we got there. There was so much cool stuff! They had hay rides, giant pyramids of hay, tractors, and little rides! They all got to pick their very own pumpkin and they searched and searched for just the right one. The kids exhausted themselves playing with everything they could, and everyone was sleepy the whole car ride home. It was a great day!

If you can't beat 'em...

Since Fall has decided to act more like summer we have decided to join it. It is unusually hot so we broke out the sprinkler for some warm weather fun. It was wet and cool and just what we needed. When the sprinkler wasn't enough the kids moved onto filling up buckets and dumping them on their heads. I don't know if we want Fall this year...

Sandbox explorers

"Hey we got some new sandbox toys." Who knew such a simple statement would cause so much commotion. The kids came running. We put new sand and new sand toys in the sandbox. They dug and built and buried for hours. Just when they started to get tired of it, we put in some water and it became a whole new game. I love it when the little things make them so happy.