Adventures of Puppy Sitting!

There was never a dull moment with Sully around.   Oh, the fun we had...

Sully trying to eat Caroline's diaper!

Sully getting his teeth on one of Charlotte's drawings from school followed by a heartbroken 5 year old!

Caroline putting her foot in the dog's water bowl!

Caroline eating the dog food! 

Caroline locking herself in the crate!

Sully running up to Caroline, Caroline saying "tickle, tickle!"

Sully pulling the toilet paper off the roll!

Caroline giving her toys to Sully, me taking them away, Caroline giving more of her toys to Sully, me taking them away...

Charlotte saying to Sully while he was in his crate for jumping and knocking down Caroline, "You can't jump.  You'll hurt someone.  Do you understand?" 

Charlotte calling him "puff." (I think maybe because of his puffy fur!)

 And the absolute best part was when Sully had pooped on the floor, I scooped it up with a dust pan, took it outside to throw it in the bushes, lost my balance on the ice, and the poop went flying in the air!  The only thing I was thinking was I hope it doesn't land on my head.  It didn't and somehow I stayed on my two feet!  Pat was watching and thought it was the funniest thing ever!!

He liked sleeping in the bean bag.

 We went through a lot of treats to get this picture!!  Caroline was crying because there were no more treats to give!

Good times, but maybe now's not the time for a puppy!!

Sully

Yep, we are puppy sitting while the Bolduc's are in sunny Florida.  Oh boy, I thought Caroline was a handful!

Happy Spring!

Bird seed ornaments

The girls love watching the birds around our home so we made some food for our feathered friends!

We used the recipe found here.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

Boiling Sap

 Explaining the process to Charlotte

 Once the sap level was too low for the sap pan, we brought the sap inside to finish the boiling process on the stove top.

 Finally done boiling

 Filtering, which happened to be the most difficult part.  We tried milk filters, coffee filters, paper towel, cheesecloth and it still was not clear.  We're working on a better, easier process.

 11 gallons of sap equaled 28oz, but a little was spilled and some was used for dessert!

Vanilla ice cream with freshly made warm maple syrup!

Cupcake liner flowers

Think Spring on this wintery day with this beautiful flower craft!

 Painting the popsicle sticks to be used as the flower stem

  Cutting out the leaves

 Beads for the center of the flower

 Pom poms

 Dot markers

Tissue paper

It wasn't complete without a sun and rainbow!

Pot of Gold Fingerprint Rainbow

Yep, she drew herself in the pot of gold!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Kenzie!

Owl cupcake for the birthday girl!

 Patiently waiting for hers

I love it when I say her name and she looks at me and smiles.
and then the flash batteries died so here are some not so good quality pictures

 

Tanner, it's time to wake up!

 

Enjoying MORE snow

and there's more on the way..boooo!

 "Hey, don't take a picture of me walking up the hill!"

 Yay, Caroline is walking up the big hill!

 Almost there

Me: "Do you need help?"

Caroline: "Yes."

Charlotte: "I can help.  I'm the big sister."

Collecting Sap

Charlotte was so excited to collect sap when Daddy got home.  I love that she is enjoying this learning process and wants to show the sap buckets to everyone who comes to visit!