July 4th Festivities
friends
winston-salem dash game.

the kernel and some friends: isaac, modeling the dangerously high balcony and it’s accompanying dangerously small guard rail: isaac and william are pals: and pals sneak cotton candy to each other when moms aren’t looking: anna’s preferred mode of transport:
swimming with william

on monday, we were invited to the community pool of william r. and his parents. so, we went. and it was fun.
Cora’s BounceU Birthday Party
yesterday we strolled off to isaac’s favorite place in the entire universe, bounceU, to celebrate the 3rd birthday of his pal, cora. we didn’t bring a camera, so we couldn’t get any good shot of the bouncing action. but, our phones did a decent job of capturing the birthday cake part of the day… cora […]
practice baby holding…
isaac had his first stab at holding another baby yesterday, when jessica brought 3 month old graelyn over for a visit. he wasn’t really interested at first, but i kept seeing him sneaking peeks at graelyn and then this conversation took place: isaac: is that a baby? jessica: yes. she’s a baby. isaac: she’s pretty […]
thomas the train cake
with the help of my faithful assistant, allison roehrenbeck, i assembled this cake for the 3rd birthday of mr. luke mielke, with whom we will celebrate at fuddruckers tomorrow. he’s already been a semi-recipient of a thomas the train cake, but this one is on a much larger scale (and the train itself is cake). […]
christmas cookies, round 2
last saturday, mandy and her girls came over and we finished baking cutout cookies and then decorated them. isaac decorated one cookie, ate it, and ate two undecorated cookies and called it quits. the girls hung in till the bitter end and decorated a zillion cookies. the last is my favorite.
baby boy cupcakes
made these for a yet-to-be-named-baby-boy-on-the-way… with some fondant assistance from allison r. and her degree in art from wake forest. 🙂