The Baker

Kuba has become the official baker in the house....happily making up his own recipes or following one from a cookbook.   Here he is making a lime raspberry cake.   It was delicious.  I like his baking outfit the best though.  

Friendships

I like to throw photo's on here of the boys and their friends.  Some day when they are older and looking back on these posts, I think they'll have fond memories of their childhood pals.  So much of their life is spent playing with friends and these particular 4th grade friends are gems.  I might as well show capture the moments.  

 

Growth Spurts

After 13 years, I'm revisiting what it was like to have an infant who grows out of a whole size every few months.  This is unreal!  BOTH of the boys are busting out of their clothes - regularly.  I've been thrown into a dizzying state of confusion about what sizes to buy and where the hell to buy them, and then watching as the new clothes quickly become too small way too soon.  Leg length, arm length, foot size, waist size...you name it - big, bigger, biggest.  They seem to be at the tippy top of the boys clothing size range - or out of it altogether, and my favorite haunts for boys clothes just don't carry their new sizes.  In a nutshell - I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO SHOP ANYMORE!  And I'm the shopping mom.  I can't tell you how many times I've ordered a round of clothes in a variety of sizes only to ship them back because ALL of them were too small.  We used to buy one pair of sneakers per year and this year there is no way the boys can even fit in the sneakers they wore back in September.   It's such a noticeable shift in their growth and development that it needs to be marked and written about and marveled at!  WOW!  RRRIP!  Screak!  POP!