The little orange helper.

[navygreen]

O, crazy LJ-gods of irony! What would it be like if I were able to stay logged in long enough to update?

*ahem*

Yes. Well.

Jack was Little Helper Man today. At the commissary, he picked out the tomato sauces and seasonings for his dinner choice of spaghetti tonight. He dutifully broke the spaghetti noodles in half and added them to the boiling water (while I supervised, of course). While the pasta was boiling, he helped me construct all the layers of a fantastic banana pudding for dessert (which was, again, his idea for tonight). Such a joyful little helper today, he was.

The boys played for a good long while today while I read my book outside. The raced their bikes up and down the street, and I took a few pictures. (Can you believe I hadn't used my camera in over a week?) After they tired of that, they played a hearty game of football amongst themselves, and their "tackles" were really too cute. They worked up quite an appetite for the aforementioned spaghetti and banana pudding.

We're heading to a birthday party for Jack's classmate Rudi tomorrow at SkateCity, and the boys are über-excited about that. I'd asked Ann what Rudi needed/wanted, and we decided to get her movie gift certificates. I'm going to wrap them up all prettiful, and then we'll be good to go.

I'm going to download these pictures now, hoping that there's a decent one to show you of Jack's outfit from today. Philip dressed him this morning for preschool, and I swear, he was a walking traffic cone: orange pants, orange sweatshirt, orange ski cap and orange Sippy cup. *shakes head*