Resourceful

I got Joe some yogurt the other day and then ran downstairs to do something. When I came back up this is what he was doing.

Yes, that is a sock he is using as a spoon. I'm not sure what he did with the spoon I gave him. But it's okay, because he found something else that worked just as well.

And I'm not sure where he got the idea... I wish I could say the sock was fresh out of the dryer, but I'm pretty sure it came right off his foot.

What a goofball.

Self Portraits

Joe loves the camera

I can't seem to keep it out of his reach

His favorite subject is himself

Maybe someday he'll be a great photographer

For now, I'll just get a good laugh from these :)

Losing brain cells...

This morning I put the aluminum foil away.

This afternoon I fed Joe. Then I put the cheese away, right next to the aluminum foil, in the fridge.

Millions of Peaches

Joe is quite the master stair climber, and descender? We didn't have stairs at our apartment in Poky and he is loving them!


So, we had the missionaries over for dinner the other night. I had to take the fruit bowl off its home on our kitchen table to make room for the food. However, with one side of the sink covered in clean, drying dishes, and the other side covered in my dinner mess, I had no counter space on which to put the bowl. I put it on the floor. Conveniently, it kept Joe entertained for most of dinner. Later that night we trapped Joe in the kitchen so Zach could paint the family room. Zach hears Joe slurping something and discovers Joe had helped himself to a peach from the bowl. For some reason we thought it was hilarious. But really, isn't he just the cutest?

Dumpster Diving

Next week we are moving! Yesterday, in an effort to save money we went to a small, local grocery store to get some boxes. We were informed we could just help ourselves to the pile of boxes right next to the dumpster. Amidst our search for suitable moving boxes I pick up an especially long one and look inside to find, an unopened Hershey's candy bar of this variety:

That's a Hershey's special dark with raspberry and macadamia, if you can't tell. Yes Zach and I technically ate a candy bar out of the dumpster, and it was tasty. I'm thinking this will make a good story when we have older kids. "When you're dad was in dental school and were scraping by we once ate food from the dumpster!" They really wouldn't need to know the details...right?

Really though, we are very grateful our needs have always been taken care of and we've never had to take such drastic efforts to put food on our table.

Breakfast for Dinner

Who doesn't love breakfast for dinner, honestly? I love it. It's super tasty plus, we always have ingredients to make yummy breakfast. Tonight after enjoying our hashbrowns (that I made from our potatoes that grew eyes while we were on our break) we had this little conversation:

Zach: "Guess what I learned today"
Me: "What?"
Zach: "You shouldn't eat potatoes that have grown eyes"
Me: "err...Why is that?"
Zach: "They are full of toxins"

Oops.

So folks, even when trying to be frugal and not wasteful, you better not eat those potatoes with growing eyes.