http://www.jessiandmatt.net A Chronicle of Jessi, Matt, and their kids Sat, 03 May 2008 21:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's fairly often that I make breakfast for the kids on the weekends.  One of their favorite meals is over easy eggs.  Usually, Jessi makes over easy eggs since I can't seem to make them without breaking the yoke.  When that happens, Jessi coined the term, "over dead eggs." This morning, ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/04/06/over-dead-eggs Otylia was doing her homework when she came across a math problem that was essentially, "What is 45 - 5?" She looked at Jessi and said, "I need 45 fingers." http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/03/30/funny-things-kids-say-3 Over the years, our kids have had their own version of English it seems.  Most of it has been because of their inability to pronounce some of the words.  Amazingly, they still use a few of the words even though they are all more than capable of pronouncing the real ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/03/30/kid-words We received around 8 inches of snow today.  Just when we thought Spring was finally here, Winter is back.  I was outside with our Greyhound, Willie, while he was relieving his bladder.  As a reminder to the kids, I smiled and said, "Now don't eat the yellow snow."  Otylia turned ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/03/21/more-funny-things I was out walking Willie the other and Otylia decided to tag along.  Apparently I was walking too fast for Otylia, and the conversation went something like this: "Daddy, you're walking too fast." "Daddy, slow down!" "Daddy, HEEL!" Apparently, that worked, as she was quiet after that. http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/02/22/funny-things-kids-say Dmitri received his Arrow of Light in as a Webelos Scout last week at the Jordan Cub Scouts (Pack 332) Blue and Gold Celebration.  The Arrow of Light is the highest award you can earn in Cub Scouting.  The same afternoon, bridged in the Belle Plaine Boy Scout Troop (Troop ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/02/18/moving-on-to-boy-scouts The family recently took a short trip out to San Francisco. We needed to find some items from Chinatown for our Chinese New Year themed Cub Scout Blue and Gold Celebration. So we found a sitter for our Greyhound, packed up the family, and headed out to the ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/02/18/a-trip-to-san-francisco Below is a slideshow of our family trip to California last week.  Enjoy! http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/02/12/monterey-california We took the family to California recently, and I'll soon have a photo album up here about it.  What I've got as a starting point is a comparison of a photo taken of me, Jessi, and Dmitri the last time we were at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  The top photo ... http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/02/11/10-years-later For the first post of the new year, I decided to upload some photos taken around the house during the holiday break with the kids. You can find them either at the family PicasaWeb site, or you can find them right here in the Photo Gallery. From Christmas 2007 http://www.jessiandmatt.net/2008/01/01/first-post-of-2008