What does Tanner do all day?

I've had several people ask me what Tanner does all day now that Kiersten is in school I thought this picture captured the essence of our days together pretty well . . .


He loves to collect everything in the house he can find with a cord and "plugs" them into the couch (we try to encourage him to plug things into the couch instead of pulling out the "childproof" outlet covers and really plugging things into the wall). Then he "reads" the time on the clock - somehow it's always "40-clock." He likes me to sit down on one of Kiersten's chairs while he does my hair with the curling iron (and sometimes he likes to do his own). He also likes to make me pancakes on the griddle (for that he needs the "flipper" (spatula/pancake flipper) and real plates from the kitchen). He also likes to take left over pancakes or a piece of bread out of the cupboard(he never asks, he just climbs up on the counter and helps himself to whatever he'd like) and put it in the waffle iron to make "wavvles."

I'm not sure how my blow dryer, the vacuum and the carpet cleaner didn't make it into the picture - they are every day staples.

And how do I spend my day? Why playing pretend with Tanner and then trying to get him to clean up his mess, of course! It's no wonder I'm exhausted every day. :)

A Little Overboard?!?!?

I love shopping for cute clothes for Kiersten, so I've been a little bummed with Kiersten starting school and them having to wear uniforms. Well, not really uniforms, but "uniform colors" it's called. It's nothing like what my parents tell us about in Hong Kong, but there isn't much I can do within the guidelines. So now, for the first time in her life, Kiersten has an entire wardrobe centered around blues and khakis. So my shopping turned to ribbons and flowers for lots of hair bows. I know some of you think I've gone overboard with hair bows in the past, but this time I think I really may have gone overboard . . .

We're 4 weeks into school and she hasn't repeated a hair bow, she hasn't worn them all yet, and I still have ribbon that I haven't even used yet, so there are still more hair bows just waiting to be made!

Not only do I have an abundance of hair bows, but I also have lots of left over ribbon (because of course I can't make more than one bow (or set of bows) out of each kind of ribbon!), and I'm pretty sure if I'd clean my mess up I'd be well past my "limit" of 4 boxes of ribbon! It's a good thing Nate's a sweetheart and I think he always knew that I wouldn't be able to stick to only 4 boxes of ribbon