February 2009

Since we have a weekly church meeting in our home during which we all eat together, we end up with lots of leftover food that folks think we might be able to use. This cake was left over from a wedding. We were given the majority of a sheet of it. The wedding was Saturday night and we served it at our house on Sunday night. In an effort to use up the cake, Micah and I decided to build a trifle. He got to cut the cake into pieces, break up cookies, spray canned whipped cream...all things I don't normally allow him to do by himself. He thoroughly enjoyed this project!
For Valentine's treats for Micah's preschool class, we made these candy trains. I thought he would fizzle out long before we were done, but he stayed engaged through the whole process - from picking out the candy at the store until the last card and train were tied together. He was so proud walking into school the next day!

He's pretending he's a turtle - or did until he started to feel a little stuck under that stool!
Micah's been very interested in writing his own name. Here's one of his first good attempts. Look closely - you can see the M-i-backwards c-a-H. Pretty good for 3 1/2.