The Little Red House 2010

The little red house is something our girls talk about all year. Last year was our first family - I mean just us - vacation and we had a great time. We rented a little red house in the Poconos and the girls have been asking to go back ever since left. We finally made it back.

The girls are drawn to the house for four reasons.

First, is the bunk beds. They spend hours playing on them and swinging from them. It is a twin over full which accomadates all three girls. Lila and Savannah trade off on the top bunk and, boy, do they just love it up there. Adeline would prefer Lila up top and Savannah down low with her. We kind of found that funny this year as the two them went back and forth during their sleep.

First Adeline had Savannah squished up against the wall. And, well, what else is one to do when you are pinned up against a wall. Why yes. . . use your sister as a pillow!

The second reason to come to the little red house is because the Crayola Factory comes along with it. We spent an entire day there this year. The girls loved it even though I think Crayola could do a much better job considering they are the largest producer of art supplies for children. What is neat about the Factory is that there is a Canal museum affiliated with it (don't ask me how or why) and the girls get to spend lots of time working their boats down a large canal by operating various locks. They couldn't get enough. They also enjoyed the building center of the museum. Lila made an impressive tall house and Savannah made a puppet theater. Pretty creative. The other pictures are of the girls working their way through the Crayola stations, namely the Model Magic.

The third reason to come to the red house is because a huge indoor water park is less than five miles away. I didn't take the camera this year as I knew I had to take the lead while there because Daddy was suffering from a 103 fever. Not ideal but the girls didn't seem to notice that Mommy doesn't really like indoor pools.

Finally, the last reason we all go the red house is because we get to hang. This year, when not playing on the bunk beds, the girls played with a new Play Doh kit I brought along. The girls spent hours making breakfast food.

The best part of the trip is that we all spend hours in our PJ's, watch way too much TV and, best of all. . . hang out together.

Thanksgiving Treats

It is Adeline's turn to bring a snack in to school this week.  I figured since it only happens twice a year, I could go all out.  My friend, Melissa, recently made this turkey snack for her daughter's school which helped me decide to do the same.

After an evening trip to the store with all three girls, I wasn't really excited about making the turkey.  I powered up though and dug in.  All three girls helped skewer the grapes, cheese and carrots.  It was fine for the first five minutes but then they had scissors in their hands (don't ask me why), were pulling all of the skewers out of the bag and dropping or eating more food than they were putting on the turkey.  I grinned and bared it the best I could.  Savannah and I sped through the remaining skewers which allowed me to end the activity early.  None of this took away from Adeline's excitement when bringing it into school this morning.  She was pretty cute because the first words out of her mouth were, "Gobble, gobble."

 Beware, if you choose to make this snack, make sure you have all of the ingredients in order to avoid a late night trip to the store with all your children.  Also, make sure you have room in your refrigerator.  I had to cram the milk into the produce drawer.

I backed the fruit and cheese snack with something sweet. I stole this idea out of Family Fun. It is a cookie that is decorated like a pumpkin pie. It looks much more authentic in person than in the picture below.