The Daintys

Some days feel like we go from one disaster to another! Minor disasters of course, but it's like living in a wind tunnel! Fortunately, I can usually chuckle at the antics of our little kooks. Also, I am not attached to any of our possessions as they likely be covered in crayon or broken soon. Here are things I have said this morning: -Please do not put chapstick on the dog. -Don't wipe your hands on your brother's head. -No, we are not sending daddy a picture of your dirty diaper. -NO MAPLE SYRUP IN THE CAR! Never ever. -Please stop stealing my quarters. -Why are all these clean clothes in the bathtub?? -Leave your stitches alone!! x50 (Wyatt fell off a chair and won the "First Kid to Get Stitches Award" this weekend.) -Nope we are not having fruit snacks for breakfast. -Who put all these fruit snack packs in the toilet? Now no one gets to eat them after lunch. And it's only 9am!  :)

We competed in the second annual Dainty Family New Year's Chopped! A competition we modeled off the food network show Chopped. We each shop for 3 ingredients for either an appetizer, entree, or dessert. Then, you draw which basket you will have to prepare. Ryan has won twice, but he went down this year to Yours Truly! We had some interesting ingredients this year including cheddar biscuit mix, farro, dandelion greens, buddah's hand, Doritos, and circus peanuts! Yikes! Somehow, everything we ate was pretty darn delicious! Leah made a starfruit icecream for example. We were very full by the end of the day and had so much fun. Happy New Year's!

Well we had some record breaking snow for early November and it feels like winter has moved right in and made himself cozy. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more of it! It has that magic feel to it now...we will see if that lasts thru April!! But for now, we will enjoy our snowmen and hot chocolate and ice skating!

Well. Nothing new to report. Still have a house full of kooky kids and boxes. The kids are cuter than the boxes, so here they are:

Well now that we are back to school we are getting back into a school-year routine. Leah has loved her first two weeks of Kindergarten. We visit once a week at lunch time to help supervise the kiddos, and it is Wyatt's favorite day! The boys and I spend the rest of our days attempting to pack up the house to move, playing baseball, taking walks, discussing baseball, swinging, playing in in the sandbox, arguing about whether or not Wyatt can have another dessert, and unpacking the boxes I just packed up. :) Occasionally they take a nap at the same time and I get two loads of laundry done that day instead of one and maybe even clean something!  In the evenings, theyvlook out the window and wait for daddy so they can wrestle him.  Leah also started soccer, which is her first team sport. Poor Wyatt cant wait until hes old enough himself!

Leah has headed off to KINDERGARTEN this morning!  She is very excited, and a little nervous.  I am very excited, and a little nervous too.  :)  Wyatt is bummed.  Every 5 minutes this morning he has said, "WHERE IS SISTER?!"  The I explain it to him again, and he says, "Oh, sister at school?  We pick her up?  Now?"  He loves her so much.

We found a little Japanese garden to explore last night on our walk near the river. It was fenced in so no kids could escape and we had the whole thing to ourselves! We are soaking up the last days of summer vacation. Ryan has been back for a while, but his students start next week. Leah has kindergarten orientation next week too, and starts full time the next week. Yikes!!