My entertainer

One day my sister and I went out to run errands.  We had hit about 4 different stores and were finally on our way home.  The kids were getting crabby and not thrilled with being in the car for some odd number of hours.  We got some pocky sticks from the Korean market and Elizabeth was already enjoying them on the ride home.  As Auggie started to scream, I asked Elizabeth to pass one to her brother and she willingly did.  Jenny and I continued to talk in the enjoyable silence of two kids eating pocky sticks.

As we approached the house, Auggie started to get crabby again, which I expected since it was near nap time.  When I pulled into the driveway and turned to look at the kids... this is what I found!!!!!

 

My chocolate covered boy!

 

Gross!

 

To say the least... I was not thrilled, but he was.

Apron Pt2

So last week was one of our favorite nephew's birthday.  He's the type of boy that goes into toys r us and can't find anything he likes.  When you ask his older brother what his younger brother is going to be when he grows up, he says that he's going to be a chef. :)  So, I decided to make him a "manly" apron for his birthday so that he can cook with pride. hahah.  Here it is...

 

Spiderman Apron!

My first time sewing on an applique.

I learned from Elizabeth's apron that it's much easier to have a velcro tab for their sake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIDDY! :)

Toddler Apron

Elizabeth and I went to Hobby Lobby the other day to fulfill a last minute order for a nursing cover.  She insisted on buying some material because I was buying material.  She chose this pink Hello Kitty fabric so I decided to make it into an apron... (inspired by Karis's Apron).  I HATE using patterns if I don't have to... mainly because I'm lazy to trace, pin and cut.  So I just measured her chest, waist and length and cut a basic shape.  It took about 40 minutes.  Here's the result!

 

Cut out the fabric.

 

Finished Apron!

Top Straps and my first attempt at attaching a button by machine!

My proud model. :)

Sorry a bit blurry.

Back of the neck.

Waist Tie.

She requested a pocket where she could put her paper in.

This blogging thing is fun.. :)  Until next time!

Spooky Child

*For Eling because she reads my blog :)*

Elizabeth has this habit of waking up in the middle of the night and hopping into our bed.  We often find her lying between us in the morning naked because she's too hot to wear pajamas.  We actually don't know what time she usually comes to our bed because we're knocked out!

The other night I was up late reading a book on square foot gardening (yes, I know, random).  It was around midnight that I heard a strange noise upstairs.  I looked at the baby monitor... Auggie.. sleeping... Elizabeth... gone!  I waited a little to see if she would come downstairs, but nothing.  After about 5 minutes, I decided to go check on her.

As I was walking up our dark stairway I felt a little eerie like someone was watching me.  About 3 steps shy of the top, I felt really creeped out.  I reached to the side without continuing up the stairs and turned on the light to find Elizabeth sitting at the top of the stairs with her eyes closed and sucking on her fingers.  I screamed from the shock and scared her half to death.

She started bawling as I was cracking up because she scared me.  I asked her what was wrong and she said, "I did something bad."  I asked her what she did and she said, "I scared mommy." hahahah

 

Elizabeth's spooky face. :)

My Hoduk Adventure

I love to cook... well.. actually... I hate to cook regular meals, but I love to cook the random stuff. Party foods, desserts, new recipes, etc. Yesterday I was in the mood to make Hoduk.. a korean snack-like food that you can buy on the streets of Korea. My parents used to always give this to us for a quick breakfast before school. Who knew it was so easy to make! Thanks to "Just the little things" for the recipe!

 Sorry, I don't know how to rotate the image.. haha. I used Rhodes White Dinner Rolls to start...

 

I laid out the dough in pans to give them enough room to rise.

 

Here is the dough after 2 hrs (1-2 hrs to go)..

 

Filling the dough with brown sugar.. some were filled with Red Bean! Yum!

Pinched in four sides.

   

Closing up the dough balls.

Flattening out the dough balls on the fry pan.

 

Beautifully flat.

 

Flipped over, nicely browned.

 

Finished Hoduk! Ready to eat!

After we made these, about 24, we ate like half of them while they were still hot. :)  Elizabeth ate 3 herself... hahah. The rest we froze so we could eat for breakfast anytime we want. Just pop it in the toaster/toaster oven and you're good to go!  My mom and grandma like the "Paht" version better than the brown sugar.  I think I like the sugar one because it's syrupy. :)

Who is MamaSlice?

Hello everyone.. or anyone.. I don't think anyone knows that I have this right now since I just decided today to make a blog. But regardless, I thought I'd write my first entry on who mamaslice is.

Back in junior high school our youth group decided to do a little activity where all of us wrote our names at the top of a sheet of paper and passed it around the circle. Each person was then supposed to write something nice about that person and at the end everyone would read out loud all the nice things that people think of them.

Being the perfectionist that I am, I was in this phase of trying out different signatures (for the day that I'd have to sign a drivers license... mind you I'm only 11 or 12). I wrote my name, Alice, with a cursive-like capital "A" at the top of the sheet. As it went around the circle, one of the boys screamed, "Who is Slice?" Thus came about my nickname in our youth group... Slice.

When my little sister, who is 2 years younger than me, came into youth group, people were trying to come up with a nickname for her as well... yes, we were really dorks. If you know my sister, you know that growing up we looked like identical twins. So of course her nickname became "slice junior".

Over the course of years, all my screen names, IM id, school id, etc. had some variation of "slice" in it. I can't remember if I dubbed myself "Mama Slice" or someone else did to tell you the truth. I remember someone in high school calling me that, but who knows what came first.. the chicken or the egg. Anyway... that's where "mama slice" came from. I used to put it together in one word like "mamaslice", but then I always thought people would think my nickname was "mamas lice". :)

So that, in a nutshell, is where I got the name for my blog. A slice of randomness is truly who I have become the past few years. I have this really bad habit of jumping from one project to the next. I have an obsessive tendency to learn everything there is to know about anything that grabs my attention. So this blog will truly be the randomest blog in the world. :) Thanks for reading!