Summer Chicken Curry Salad

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It’s summer time!

One of my family’s all time favorite meals……Chicken Curry Salad YUM!

This salad is so easy to make and literally takes 10 minutes.

I originally looked for a good chicken salad that we would eat (the picky eaters that we are) I found one that was simple and fast but it had onions and raisins well that wouldn’t fly……so I took the basic recipe and tweaked it.

First mayonnaise 1 cup (I like two cups for a more creamy salad)

and then a tablespoon of curry

Mix these together first so the curry doesn’t chunk up once it is together;                               add in already cooked grilled chicken strips these are refrigerated and bagged the recipe calls for 3 of the bags.  They are in the grocery store by the pre-packaged ham and hot dogs the precooked chicken comes in cubes too if you prefer.

Add 1/2 cup almonds I like whole so I can pick them out if we have little ones eating it, now that Phoebe is older we like the slivers but the slices are good too!

Now cut your grapes in half I add a ton of grapes! but if you’re a stickler it calls for a cup (-:

Wallah very easy and so good!

and happy little ones (-:

I hope you love it like we do let me know if you do!

The Littlest Peas 1st Trip to Cosi

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The first time we went to Cosi with my in laws I took the oldest Peas thinking that the littlest pea would be stuck in a stroller and miserable all day so she stayed home with Daddy…….. little did I know they practically have a whole floor just for those little people 5 years and under!

So we had to come back with Phoebe and our friends Brandy and Dave and their boys THEN come to find out it was Dad of 2 Peas first visit too so we had lot to look at and do for both of these two!

When you first walk in you are immediately greeted with “cool stuff” as the oldest pea would put it.  A harp without strings but plays when you touch it because of lasers!

Then we wandered on over to the heart beat thingamagig Py liked this one a lot Phoebe was still a little confused LOL!

Once our friends arrived we headed up to the little’s floor, unfortunately Pyper was too old so she and Chad played a X-Box Kinects in a little room away from the big kids.  And trust me when we say this the staff makes sure the big kids don’t mix in we had Py comes out of the little room to watch rat races they were putting on and this one staff member stared her down like she was about to rob a bank!

Once we were in there Phoebe was a little overwhelmed yeah, she just stood there taking it in not knowing what to do first.  There was so much!

I finally got her to go back to the water part where she had to don a rain coat and looked so dang cute !

What to do what to do. I have never seen Phoebe so shy about playing!

After a good 30 minutes I got her to look at other stuff, she liked this ball race but once a little guy tried to play with her she took off!

When she gets shy she makes this face that is so funny, kind of like she just got caught doing something embarrassing she did it a lot when the other kids tried to play with her.  She is with other kids everyday so not sure why she was so shy but she was!

So we went over to the other side of the floor the medical heath part, she put a band aid on a baby doll….

watched a video on the eye doctor…..

and talked to animals (-:

By this time she was ready to catch up with sissy and Dad, so we grabbed our friends and moved along.

We found Chad and Pyper in the “Progress” section across the way…..it was AWESOME the last time we were there Py and I went back in time to 1898 and now they added 1962!

Chad showed Py how to use the 18oo’s hoops…..

and do I even mention that Peas hair I love her piggie tails (-:

Chad showed both the peas the telegram office with a talking bird!

Birds was kinda frightening dare I say Alfred Hitcocky?

Chad loved the old camera Pyper was posing of course and I missed it OOPS

Then we scurried over to the 1960′s!  Phoebe loved this little ride that used to be outside the grocery stores, it was kind of hard to tell what it was a helicopter? a UFO? it didn’t matter she loved it no matter what it was!

Pyper loved the phone booth, I used to go up the street from out house all the time to call boys on a payphone and here my little one had no clue what it was she didn’t even know what the cord was for…..I am getting SO old!

Phoebe was walking with Chad from window to window she was just taking it all in.  Here’s a few shots of the 60′s so cool and notice the Sinclair Gas Station this is Pyper last name the thought it was so cool (-:

See Pyper looking at the bike up there? she wanted to ride it we would have never caught her.

After seeing her middle name in lights we lost her again….PYPER! where did that child go??

OH BOY of course she would find the tv studio she always says she wants to be famous!

There she is!

Daddy’s turn he read the teleprompter with breaking news of Kennedy’s Assassination

Pyper was the camera man Phoebe, Xander and Zach were the crew Phoebe was a little freaked out by the tv so she never went behind the desk

Now hoopla hoops! nothing like the 1800′s hoop they just rolled down the street!

Next up the Gadgets so much to tinker with~!  Dave even signed Py and Zach up for a class while Brandy and I took the littles to their own thing Brandy has that pic…hmmm you reading this Brandy I need that picture LOL

again Pyper took off Phoebe played with Daddy and I lost the Maas family, this Mom of 2 Peas clearly was not keeping up~!

OK there she is on the pulley having so much fun~!

Phoebe was getting hungry so after discovering their inner engineer we headed to the cafeteria…..I love the burger and fries, but they have everything there and it is all so good.

After we ate and the bellies were happy we made our way outside, I knew my little one would love this!

THE

~BIG SCIENCE PARK~

to be continued so stay tuned! ……….(lots of pics to go through)

The Littlest Pea’s Not So Little Anymore…..

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April 2011, while on an over night visit with Grandpa my little Phoebe grew into a toddler.  No longer willing to sleep in a pack and play she crawled out while napping and met me at the top of the steps.  An immediate phone call to Dad of 2 Peas was made to inform him of his little escape artist and the fact that she will need to sleep in a big girl bed soon.   When we got home I refused to run to the store for a bed rail she is still a baby and needs her crib surely she can’t jump out  of that!   WRONG that same day I caught her half way over the crib so we went to Target and got the bleeping bed rail.  My baby was no longer a baby and she was so excited to finally sleep in the big bed.  Pyper helped Chad put the rail together and we waited while he put it on the bed. 

That night I thought I would have to lay with her get her used to it, constantly run back up and lay her down…….

again….WRONG so I did what any Mom would do and just started to take pictures. 

She wasn’t to into that either, she just wanted to sleep in her big girl bed…….

After Bibble was covered up, her Dora Pillow under her head and her binky right there in her mouth she was ready to go night night…..

No more pictures!

Before she could go to sleep, Professor Puffington took a look around and was slightly confused, where is Phoebe??  Just bed pillows in the crib now.   Soon the crib will be taken down and will be a head and foot board for Phoebe’s big girl bed.   That will be the end of  cribs in this house and I am a little sad about that.  Both my girls are growing more and more independent, yes I know she is only 2 and a half but it’s the little things that I already miss.  She doesn’t want me to help her into bed, she doesn’t want to hold my hand coming down the stairs, she gets her cereal in the morning and brings it to me.  I could go on and on.  This is just another step in Phoebe’s growing up guess Mommy needs to too!

As for how she is sleeping, it’s like she has always been in the big girl bed.  She falls asleep great and doesn’t get out until we wake her up. she has had her moments but if I find the bink and return it to her she lays right back down and falls asleep.  We are pretty lucky that both our kids are good at going to sleep. Unless she is snot feeling well then she is up every hour…..but that’s a post for another day (-;

Sweet Dreams my little Pea

Garden Time!

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It’s that time again Pyper’s garden!

OR I should say this was Pyper’s garden for a few years and now its the Two Peas garden.  Both the peas were pretty excited to pull the weeds and get the dirt ready for seeds; so on one of the few good days we had we jumped in!

Py had picked out some new gardening gloves (I got the same) and we got a few extra ($1 each at Menards!)

She had hers on from the get go and handed Phoebe hers …

 Phoebe put hers on they were just a little big but she loved them.

We had a lot of weeds to pull all that rain brought them big time!

It wasnt long before they pulled out the kid tools heck with the boring weed pulling Mommy can do all that!

As you can see Pyper is getting pretty bored already…..it wasn’t long before she abandoned us for her friend next door and her trampoline. But Phoebe kept on tilling!

She was one determined Pea! only looked up once to wave at Dad of 2 Peas in the window…

She did a lot too! barely got any in the lawn….

Then with one last pull of the rake we were done!

Later we caught Chad out the dining room window where he leveled it all out Our Garden space is now ready for seeds!

Now can it warm back up PLEASE!

Let me know what your planting this year, are you doing a square foot garden, a raised garden, straw garden whatcha gonna do???

Leave a comment can’t wait to read them and leave a link to your blog too!

Yes another one!

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Visit Bloggy Moms

Yes! I found another Mommy Blogger site!  Started by Tiffany Noth is 2009 and it is blowing up even has a Bloggy Conference in Ohio here in the next few months and I want to go!

The two blogger sites I have joined are very different and I intend on using them both to help make my blog better than ever!

Mommy Bloggers check this one out!

Let me know what you think (-:

Spring FEVER ! ! !

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“Mommy Daddy, can we go outside?”     ”No honey it’s raining”     “I never get to go outsiiiiiiide”

So when the nicer days came around Py and Phoebe  finally got to ride their bikes and take walks around the block but not the back yard it was still too muddy….until

  

It seemed like the sky opened up and all the Peas joy came falling down …. in the back yard ~ this is the face I got when I told her she could play in the back yard she was kind of tired of the front already how could that be???

Yea!  The girls got these ribbons from Santa and waited all winter to break them out they jumped, ran and spun all over……….

 Oh the Phoebes she kept getting just enough wind to wave her ribbon high above I never heard her giggle so much!  

 

Dropped the ribbon remember we have a play gym! wait wait…..

What is Pyper doing??   looks like more fun so she will just grab the ribbon one more time….. 

HMMM she wasn’t up for jumping so to the play gym it is!

 

 

More jumping?

Mom seriously I’m not jumping~

I will climb though or attempt to!

She’s gonna do it to!  I was too afraid she might fall so I put the camera down but trust this mommy she made it!

Then the swings these girls LOVE the swings I got tons of cute pictures but this one was hysterical!  Mid-flight funky faces!

OOOH my husband Dad of 2 Peas bought my soil today too, Pyper is very excited she went with him to Lowes and next week she will go with my for seeds…just a sneak peek of blogs to come (-:

And back to the ribbons because now they make shadows!

Then a little visit from Daddy and Professor Puffington to show off the ribbon dances!

See Daddy!

Pyper clearly happy to do more jumping….Phoebe not impressed lol!

So back to the swing!  Because she LOVES it!!!

But this one the ribbon was he best toy of the day, trying to get Phoebe to keep playing with hers…

And it worked again with the “I want down Mommy” so she could play ribbons….

So as we were gathering ourselves to go in for bath time Py made one last wave of the ribbon…..until tomorrow!

Spring has finally arrived and this year Phoebe is ready to try to keep up with the big kids.  Both girls got new bikes from PapPap for Christmas, new sidewalk chalk and the ribbons we are prepared (-: Since these pictures were taken Py and Phoebe have gone on numberous bike rides with Daddy and walks with us.  Not to mention there is always a neighbor friend to play with!

So get outside and enjoy Spring won’t be long until it’s Summer!

Pyper’s first field trip……THE ZOO……in the SNOW!

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Pyper’s first field trip how could we not go !   For weeks Pyper was excited Mom and Dad were going to chaperone and the letter we got sent to us said we would be in charge of 7 children.  I was excited too (-:  Dad of 2 Peas and I got to the school that morning for a quick review of what we were doing only to find out we weren’t the only ones excited………

 there were so many parents we only got 3 children!  and that was because one of the grandparents didn’t show.  

As soon as we got in the gate our girls took off! Yes this was what we would see the whole days running in joy from exhibit to exhibit!

The girls had their agenda they wanted to get to the Polar Bears and fast!   But we made frequent stops along the way..the the goats because they could pet them and brush them…….

and Pyper!

Then we went on a Moose hunt well you know what I mean….they had the signs and all the antlers up but no Moose! But…..

it was super close to the Polar Bears!  They were so excited and our one little friends Gram showed up!

Seeing them from the top of the exhibit was cool but seeing them from the bottom EVEN COOLER!

After hanging out with the Polars for awhile Dad of 2 Peas and the littles were trying to map out where to go next…..it was then it started snowing and they got hungry so we stopped to eat and ran into lots of other school friends.

 

She sat with her buddies and teacher so we decided we would go with them too (the teacher had the more active kids so we thought we could help)…….

Now we had 6 children and a teacher let the fun begin! Now as everyone knows I love to take pictures and I thought these friends will never slow down enough to get any BOY was I wrong! They wanted pictures constinately….kidws after my own heart letting the mamaratzzi do as she pleased (-:

We then made our way to Africa there we saw Elephants, a Rhino and some monkeys!

Do you see the baby? It was so hard to tell by that tail belongs to the baby!

Had to bang the drum!

They saw Tigers they were amazing ev en this wooden one kept their attention!  I told them to growl the little one on the end was so cute!

now they got it!!!! how me your inner tiger!

The Lions were ready to pounce ! its hard to see but a teeny bunny rabbit was taunting them they were going nuts it I hope you can see the lion on the left and the bunny close to the tree.

Next was the aquarium I admit I wish there was more or more tanks but this was a pretty cool picture of the group!

I love this picture!

The kids were tired of being indoors they wanted to scream and run so we ran to the penguins ….well the bottom half of a hiding penguin anyway.   He was too cold to some out in the snow imagine that!

I have no idea what everyone was looking at but they sure were mesmerized!

Looking for monkeys …..here monkey monkey monkey …..here monkey!

The Reptile House ~ we met lots of other school kids in here too probably because it was nice and warm!

This Ball Python…..didn’t phase Pyper a bit….

This lizard…..

Scared the pants off her! (she saw his tongue and freaked out!)

We had time for one last picture with the Kimodo Dragon and one last exhibit before the kids had to get back to the bus….

Our rambunctious group chose the African Gorillas they did not read the sign LOL

Everyone was at the same window…..what in the world were they all looking at??

A BABY!!!!!! What a wonderful sight a baby and her mama sorry the pictures are a little out of focus he was a busy little thing (-:

OK OK one last picture with the Gorilla statue (-: then off to meet the rest of the class……

While we waited it was still snowing a steady light snow as it had all day, so light the camera never really picked it up…..

Until now! just in time to get back to the school!

Chad and I had a great time with all those peanuts well lets just call them  Peas (-:

If you have never been to the Columbus Zoo you should visit this summer they have lots to do in the summer go to the website at www.colszoo.org/ 

Have a great day~!  Be sure to leave me a comment blog about your field trip with your kids and share the link I would love to read all about it!

Proudest Moment as a Mom

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Yesterdays Social Mom Prompt was just this what has been your proudest moment as a mom so far…..well that was a hard one the Peas make me so proud all the time with all kinds of things.  But for this post I want to talk about how proud I was when Py became a big sister. 

Pyper was so excited to be a big sister, we had lost a child at 12 weeks a year before so when we got pregnant again we weren’t sure we should tell her yet.  It was awfully hard telling her when we miscarried she was only 3 and didn’t quite understand.  She had been talking about it for weeks and even chose the name Meat YES Meat for the baby.  So we tried again we waited until after the 12 week check up to tell her.  She was so happy but asked a lot if the baby was “still in there”.   We made sure that she knew she was just as loved as always and that a new person was going to love her just as much.  We made sure that she was at the hospital and we even got her a Big Sister care package to take with her.  A new Princess bag with new books about siblings and that one book everyone has “I Love You This Much”!   She was most excited about the sash (-:

I love this picture she got to see the baby wheeled in to get her first bath and my Grandma got the BEST picture of her watching through the window. (PS I did not pick those shoes LOL)

My in-laws were sweet enough to stay with Pyper while we were in the hospital Dad of  NOW 2 Peas never left the hospital just like when she was born.  The next day they brought her in to really meet her new little sister Phoebe.  She dressed up for the occasion and worn a necklace and everything.  She was so darn cute I just cried! she looked too grown for a 4-year-old.  Then Chad placed Phoebe in her arms you would have thought fireworks went off the look in her face; she was so happy and I was so proud.

*Beaming* (and look at that curl fyi this is my screen saver at work I have yet to change it!)

The sister love fest never stopped when we got home either, where ever that little pea was there was Pyper. 

 

Yes she really did fall asleep this way (- ;

Now look at them!  Dance Parties every night in the playroom!  Phoebe is now 2 and a half and Pyper as she will tell you is 6 and a half!   Now they can play and argue and just be sisters.  No more baby lying around for her to hold but she still hugs her a lot and kissed her head even if she doesn’t want her too LOL!

And she teachers her fashion….winter hats in the dead of last summer(surely to hide all that crazy hair) !  Who doesn’t think that’s sharp (-:

Not to mention keeping her and US laughing!

Now Phoebe wants to do everything Pyper does, repeats everything and sometimes sounds just like her being snarky! AH sister love you gotta love this age.

Want to know other Mommy’s proudest moments ?  Head over here:

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Let me know your links too I would love to read them!