Chocolate Cookies

It has been 6 months since we last made them, but apparently they made a lasting impression.  After lunch today, a well behaved Toddler Jeneric asked for some dessert.  Cake was her first choice, but since we didn't have any I offered to bake some with her while her sister was asleep.  Cookies, she tried next.  Same answer on my part.  In the end we settled on a piece of pez candy.  After that was quickly eaten, TJ announced that we would make chocolate cookies next.  After discovering we were missing many important ingredients, including the chocolate, I tried renegotiating the plan.  Peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies were shot down.  So was cake.  Three substitutions latter, we had success:

Fit to be tied

Aunt Kelly had a fun activity for the Wily Jeneric family - tie dying!

Toddler Jeneric was an enthusiastic helper.


Baby Wily rather enjoys the results!


Aunt Kelly tackled a rather ambitious project - a full-sized sheet set.

Interlude

Monday morning, Eric came down to the kitchen to hear Toddler Jeneric singing while she searched for a painting book, "Where oh where did my paint book go? Oh where oh where did it go?", sung to the tune of "Where did my little dog go?"

Gone swimmin'

Eric took the girls and their grandparents to a nearby beach for some fun in the sun.

	Baby Wily took to the water - once again! - like a duckling. She sampled the sand again and chased that with a rock.

	Toddler Jeneric had an adventurous day with a long hike and swimming to the buoys!

Life in the Fast Lane

Life in the Fast Lane


Stealing the Spotlight


And look who was worn out first...or skipped their nap...

We're going to the zoo, zoo zoo!

And if you're Aunt Kelly, you can come too, too, too! Last Thursday, 3/4 of the Wily Jeneric family headed to the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. As luck would have it, Aunt Kelly was visiting, too - so we picked her up and ferried her home with us.

	Check out all those nobs and switches!
Pilot Jeneric, at your service!
	Houston, we have lift off!
Blast off!
	What is that contraption?
Look at the fun people you can find in space!

Bubbles...

...are now found in some unexpected places.  Yes, that is milk in the pop bottle hooked up to our new home carbonation unit.  Toddler Jeneric is enthusiastic about bubbly water, and was very impressed when she was able to add bubbles to milk.