Zeke 2012 - Day 51 - Hang-Gliding

We woke up to find candy canes hanging all over our Christmas tree and living room.

Zeke had made a hang-glider out of candy cane wrapping paper and was flying around the house dropping off candy canes!

Have a safe flight back to the North Pole, Zeke! We'll see you next year. :)

Zeke 2012 - Day 50 - Cupcakes

Zeke was baking in the kitchen again! :)

What a treat! Chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles!

We visited relatives today and took the cupcakes along to share.

Zeke 2012 - Day 48 - Marshmallow Snowmen

The boys rushed out of their rooms to look for Zeke but they couldn't find him. They asked mom and dad for help and we all searched the house together. Dad and Ezra finally found him when they opened the refrigerator door to get a drink. He was on a shelf with a bag of big marshmallows and had been making marshmallow snowman! They boys had fun making one too.

Zeke 2012 - Day 47 - Alpha-Bits

Zeke was on the dining room table in a bowl full of cereal.

He brought us some Alpha-Bits!

He set out some Christmas bowls and cups for the boys and he spelled their names with the cereal letters above their place-mats.

Zeke 2012 - Day 43 - Muffin Breakfast

Zeke made us muffins for breakfast with little Christmas trees and snowmen on top.

 

He left a bit of mess in the kitchen (flour and red and green chocolate chips) but he cleaned it up after we went to bed. We had some more Christmas cocoa with our muffins this morning!

Zeke 2012 - Day 41 - Cocoa

Today Zeke was in the kitchen in a snowflake mug!

He had a marshmallow beard that looked like Santa's. There were marshmallows all over the cook-top and to our pleasant surprise, brand new Christmas mugs and plates with different flavors of cocoa and gingerbread cookies!

Isaiah loved the penguin cup and Ezra loved the Santa cup. They enjoyed trying different flavors of cocoa and picking how many marshmallows to put in their cup. So fun and delicious!

(Mugs and plates are from the 2012 Target collection.)

Zeke 2012 - Day 39 - Donut Reindeer

Zeke was in the dining room on a plate with donuts, pretzels, M&Ms and marshmallows. He made us cute reindeer donuts for breakfast!

Zeke 2012 - Day 34 - Candy Jar!

We found Zeke in the kitchen diving into a huge candy jar filled with Christmas chocolates. Some spilled on the counter so the boys picked one to put in their lunchboxes. Yum!

Zeke 2012 - Day 32 - Cookies!

Something grew from planting the magic seeds... cookies!!



Zeke was hanging upside-down from the window above.



Zeke wrote the boys a not letting them know how well they did at following the directions.



The kids were so excited and loved the treat. :)

Zeke 2011 - Day 27 - M&M Pancakes

Once again, we found Zeke in the kitchen. He sure does love to bake (and make a mess!).

Zeke made us all a yummy breakfast! Pancakes with red and green M&Ms! They were delicious. :)

(The plates are from the 2011 Be Merry collection at Target.)

Zeke 2011 - Day 26 - Peppermint Shakes

We found Zeke in the kitchen on the breakfast bar. He was hanging by our little blender. The boys were excited to see that he left them fun new Christmas cups and candy! There were peppermints, candy canes, whipped cream and in his note told us there was vanilla ice-cream in the freezer to make some peppermint milkshakes. They were so good!

Milkeshake recipe:

• 2 cups vanilla ice cream
• 1 cup milk
• 3 tablespoons finely crushed peppermint candies
• Toppings: whipped cream, crushed peppermint candies.
• Process first 3 ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into glasses, and serve with desired toppings.

(The cups are from the 2011 Be Merry collection at Target.)

Zeke 2011 - Day 23 - Reindeer Cookies

We had to leave early in the morning for school so we didn't have the chance to find Zeke. When our oldest son came home from school, he smelled something good coming from the kitchen. We found that Zeke had just made us some peanutbutter and chocolate reindeer cookies! Our two year old said, "It looks like Rudoplh. I can't believe it!"

Zeke was munching on a pretzel and had chocolate on his face.

The red-nosed reindeer cookies were a peanutbutter cookie with chocolate-covered pretzel antlers, mini M&M eyes and a red M&M nose.

While eating them, Isaiah said, "Boy, Zeke sure does make good cookies!" He took the rest of them to preschool with him to share with his friends after lunch and they all sang their thank you song to Zeke. ;)

Zeke 2011 - Day 18 - Ice Cream Snowman

We had to get up early this morning so we didn't get a chance to look for Zeke until after preschool. It took us a little while but we finally found him in the freezer! He had made an ice cream snowman and the boys shared it for a delicious after-school snack.

The snowman was three scoops of vanilla ice cream and had chocolate chip eyes/mouth, M&M buttons and licorice arms/nose.

(The bowls are from the 2011 Be Merry Collection at Target.)

Zeke 2011 - Day 17 - Goldfishing

We found Zeke floating in a boat in the sink fishing for goldfish crackers! He had already caught a bunch in a little bucket and said we could eat them.

They tasted like Pizza. :)

Zeke 2011 - Day 14 - Donut Snowmen

We found Zeke in the kitchen again (making a big mess as usual)!

There were donuts, powdered sugar, chocolate chips, M&Ms, pretzels and orange circus peanut candies. He was eating a pretzel and had powdered sugar on his nose.

He was building donut snowmen!

He left enough for the boys to make snowmen as well and we had a delicious treat for breakfast.

Zeke 2011 - Day 8 - S'mores

Today we found Zeke camped out in the living room!

We caught him roasting a marshmallow over a tea-light candle. He was making elf-sized s'mores! He saved some graham crackers, chocolate bars and marshmallows for us so we could make s'mores as well.

We made our s'mores in the microwave today (by placing the chocolate bar on half of a graham cracker and a few mini marshmallows on the other half, heating them for about 10 seconds, and squishing them together). The kids loved this little treat for a snack!