Cooking up a storm..

We are really lucky to have such great neighbors living next door (on the one side at least... don't get me started about the guys on the other side!!) The Osmonds (as we like to call them) are super considerate and such nice, genuine people. Don & Marie have one daughter - Christina, who is now 16. The other day Don came over with some of Christina's old toys and asked if our kids would like to have them. Included in they toys was this Fisher Price kitchen.

Since Don dropped off the kitchen the kids haven't stopped playing with it! They absolutely LOVE it. The two of them can play down there TOGETHER, happily, but most importantly, QUIETLY for hours!

Logan's favorite part is the fruit and vegetables that stick together with velcro. He loves to "cut" them apart and prepare various dishes.

Katie's favorite part has got to be the built in highchair. She likes to feed her dolly. As you can see from the one picture, Dolly has been prepared a VERY nutrious breakfast consisting of donuts, corn on the cob etc etc.

Logan was a little perturbed that there was no dishwasher. "How are we going to clean the dishes?!" he asked me.. so I got him a wash cloth and told him he'd have to pretend to wash them by hand in the sink instead. "Ugh! Katie can do that! That's HER job cause she's a GIRL!" I think Mark will have to step up to the plate these next couple of days and set a good example for his son and do the dishes!

Another bad influence Mark has been on the kids is pictured below... Katie was drinking out of the balsamic vinegar bottle. I asked her, "Katie, what are you drinking? Juice?" And Logan says, "No mommy, it's BEER!!!" And Katie kept chugging away.

Logan loves to have "guests" over for dinner. When I'm upstairs I can hear him calling people and inviting them over for supper. Here he was having quite the conversation with Uncle Louis. He was a little worried cause Uncle Louis apparently told him he wanted to have 10 pizzas for supper, and Logan said he didn't have enough "greedients".