I tried another recipe a few days ago. Its rating on allrecipes.com, was 4.5/5 star with 3,859 reviews. I was expecting heaven. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. They were much greasier than I would have liked, and they were WAY too sweet. I may try it again, but I'd cut back on the butter, chocolate chips, and pudding mix.
We have tulips in our backyard. Greg pointed them out to me today, and it was a pleasant surprise, as we weren't here last year at this time. While the boys were napping I grabbed the camera and attempted a little photoshoot with the flowers.

Spencer is once again happy. After his latest episode of teething (which saw 4 new teeth come in at the same time), he's once again a happy, smiling boy. Here's my happy boy!

Today, Finn came up to me holding a sippy cup, and had a sour look on his face.

Finn: Mom, what's in here?

Me (seeing the look on his face): Oh, probably sour milk

Finn: No, it's beer.

Me: I highly doubt it's beer Finn.

Finn (handing me the cup): It's BEER, mom.

I open up the lid and sniff it. Well, it wasn't beer, but it was fermented apple juice. Which smelled a LOT like wine, which I guess in the mind of a 3 year old is the same thing as beer. I wonder if I should be concerned that he knows what beer is?

In other news, Spencer is officially walking (thanks, Dorie!). He's been puttering around for the last couple of weeks...a few steps here, a couple of steps there. But a few days ago I was finally able to catch him in the act. Here's a little clip:


I'm now proud to say that he's on two feet most of the time, and tying to keep up with his older brother!

I was bored this evening. Greg took over the tv because he bought Grand Theft Auto 4 (which I'll admit is actually fun to watch). So, I attempted to make a new banner. Then after the new banner was done, I had to change the colours.

Voila. It looks different!

We received this bicycle wagon last year as a gift from Greg's coworkers. I finally set it up today and took the boys for a spin. They LOVED it. Well, ok. Finn loved it. Spencer was so-so. Since my bike is still not in working order, I had to use Greg's bike with has the most uncomfortable seat EVER. We didn't go far, but Finn had a taste of speed and was going crazy, yelling "faster mommy, FASTER" and when I wanted to coast for a few seconds so that I could catch my breath, he yelled "no, keep pedalling." So I did. "Ok, that's better. Good girl."

This is a wonderful recipe. I found it on allrecipes.com. The only change I made was that instead of using bread, I used 1 cup of breadcrumbs.

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice, divided
1 teaspoon mustard powder
2 pounds ground beef
3 slices bread, broken up into small pieces (or 1 cup breadcrumbs)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon beef bouillon granules

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a small bowl, combine the ketchup, brown sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and mustard powder.
In a separate large bowl, combine the ground beef, bread, onion, egg, bouillon, remaining lemon juice and 1/3 of the ketchup mixture from the small bowl. Mix this well and place in a 5x9 inch loaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, drain any excess fat, coat with remaining ketchup mixture and bake for 10 more minutes.

It was DELICIOUS, and both Finn and Spencer had seconds. Which is very unusual (especially from Spencer because he has been super picky lately).