Sunday was pretty low key. Unkie and Aunt Kate left in the morning to head back to Ohio. Henry and Oliver played in the garage while Uncle Kevin and papa watch the Bengals on the laptop. Henry and Oliver particularly had a good time moving leaves. Oliver picked up leaves in his loader and put them in Henry's dump truck. Then Henry drove his dump truck out the the yard and dumped them. This kept them happy for a long time.
I played inside and had a little snack while trying to be quiet during nap time. We were all pretty impressed at how everyone managed to sleep, even with the house at 80 decibels. Oliver was so tired he fell asleep on the couch and slept until Henry came down from his nap and jumped on his head.
Since Natalie doesn't take naps anymore, she and mama made special birthday cupcakes. Papa brought home this recipe from work and it contains no less that 3 sticks of butter. We didn't have enough eggs, so we split the recipe in half and made it into cupcakes instead. Made made the batter and spread raspberry jam on the cupcakes. Natalie was in charge of sliced almonds and mini chocolate chips. You can see that hers don't have any jam or almonds on them. We covered them with the other half of the batter and Natalie got to work on the sprinkles.
Here's the finished product. They were very good, very dense, and very chewy, just like a perfect brownie.
After supper, we got down to celebrating. Natalie turned 5 on November 29 and actually got to celebrate on her birthday. (And yes, mama is wearing Henry's very small apron. She was trying to pan fry sweet potato patties. And the entire experiment was a disaster, much like the apron.) Natalie, the kid who can chew for a year, stalled in blowing out her candle, but got the job done when she realized it was cake.
If you thought Henry was a picky eater, Natalie can really put him to shame. Mama made her eat peas with her lunch on Sunday. Natalie was so adverse to eating the peas, she didn't throw a temper tantrum, but instead threw them up all over the floor and yelled "I told you I didn't want to eat them." We were worried for a minute she might actually be sick. Luckily, she immediately asked for a cookie.
Next up, slouchy Henry turned 4 on December 2nd. It took a few tries to blow out his candle.
Last but not least, Oliver turns 3 on December 6th. Luckily, everyone's birthdays are in order of age. Natalie thinks its funny that for 3 days, she's two years older than Henry.
Everyone liked the cake.
Even though it's not my birthday, I got a cake too.
And managed to talk mama into giving one to Tesser too.
Henry was so excited about birthdays, if you can tell from this very screechy rendition of "Happy Birthday to You."
After supper, we got down to the business of opening presents. Mama was pretty smug about her gift- little horses and the girls from Saddle Club- Natalie's favorite TV show. Natalie exclaimed "This is just what I wanted in the whole world!"
Oliver got to open the trains that Henry painted for him. Mama wrapped them each individually and learned the hard lesson that even if it is a hand painted $7 train set, the number of presents matter to the other kids.
Henry opened some dinosaur themed presents from Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Kevin- always a huge hit!
And I brought the T. Rex over to check it out.
But the best boy present of the night belonged to Aunt Jenni and Uncle Jim. They sent down color-changing Hot Wheels cars that change color in hot and cold water. This kept the boys busy and the floor very wet until mama moved the activities over to the sink.
Here are the cars in action. They are so fun! Thanks, Aunt Jenni and Uncle Jim!
After we cleaned up the water puddles, Natalie and I worked on the maze workbook that Grandma and Grandpa Seibert sent me!
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