Dinosaur Fossils

Well obviously we made dinosaur fossils. Here's the recipe I used:

1 cup cheap table salt

2 cups flour

1 cup warm water tinted brown (I used the instructions on the back of the food colouring box)

I also mixed this in my stand mixer since it called for 5 minutes of kneading and I thought the kids would lose interest. Also, the brown food colouring didn't work so good, it looked pinkish when it mixed up, and you can't add food colouring after the fact, it just blobs up. I'd like to try coffee grounds, but I'd have to steal them. 

Roll out, make Dino imprints, and bake at 300 for at least 2 hours. Warning: it smells kind of weird while baking. 

Cool completely then paint them! The more colourful, the less realistic, but whatever, I tried to let go. Can you guess which one I painted?

I think we will bury them in the sandbox and then dig them up! It just needs to warm up a little bit more.

Happy April!

Well it's been awhile since I posted... Again. We've had a fun month so I'll just share a few pictures.

Samuel turned 2/3 year old!

Jacob and Daniel helped me make an Easter banner. ALLELUIA! Happy Easter!

Jeff had a birthday and we celebrated with pan dessert.

And look! We have flowers in our garden so spring must really be here.

Bork, Bork, Bork!

Here are the boys pretending to be the Swedish Chef. Awesome.

"New" Toys!

This was a fun, all morning, activity... TOY STORE! The boys helped me price everything. Then I gave them each a shopping bag and a container with 25 pennies. They took turns making a purchase until they ran out of funds. Then they had to go play for a bit while I replenished the stock at my "store." When I was ready I let them have another 25 cents. I think we did this four times. And then they took it all into the living room and made their own toy store and sold to each other! The best part was when Jacob ran out of money and Daniel offered to buy him "one more car." So cute.

"Is it ready yet Mommy?"

Counting his money.

My associate doing the books.