Update and random things

Paige and I have been sick for the past week and a half so we've been staying home and laying around. I hope next week will be better as Paige goes back to school on Monday. So much for enjoying mid-winter break. Despite being sick, we did try to do our part to stimulate the economy last weekend. We retired Our Chevy Malibu at 139,000 miles and replaced it with a used 2008 Ford Focus. It is a unique Kiwi Green color.
Under the random things category, we are looking at 3 different schools to send Paige to for kindergarten. Perhaps it is mommy being over protective, but I don't think she is ready for all day Kindergarten. Our school district does not offer part time kindergarten so we are looking at the Schools of Choice program which lets us apply to other local schools that offer part time programs. If accepted (it's lottery based) we can send Paige there tuition free, we just have to provide transportation daily. We attended a parents night at one of the schools already and hope to schedule a time at each school to visit a kindergarten class when it is in session. We won't know where she is going to go until mid to late April.

The next random thing is a picture of the flyer Paige's preschool/daycare center sent out as a mass mailing. She appears in the lower left hand corner.
Finally, I felt better today so I finished a project I started this summer, I completed the quilt hanger and hung up the quilt that came to me after my grandmother passed away last spring. It now hangs in our bedroom.

Pinkalicious

Paige loves books. Many of her favorite books, and her treasured High Five magazine, come from my mom. In honor of two of Paige's favorite books, Crumbs Bakeshop in a Box by Mia Bauer and Pinkalicious by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann, we made pink cupcakes with pink frosting. We used the recipe from the Crumbs book and it was very tasty. In honor of Pinkalicious (and Crumbs too) the cupcakes were pink with pink frosting. No one turned pink from too much pink consumption like in Pinkalicious. We had a great time baking and eating our treat.

Making the cupcakes.

Making the frosting. Frosting the cupcakes.

The finished products. Makes you hungry doesn't it.

Enjoying the fruits, I mean cupcakes, of our labor.