s'more-gasbord.

We had our first warm weekend in a long time and got to take our munchkin outside to run off some of his pent up energy. Amen. The bitter cold and lack of outdoor time has made us all a bit stir crazy, so we spent Saturday afternoon out in the backyard picking up after the dogs (gross), getting some much needed Vitamin D (confession: I got burned), and trying something new (fire + sugar = win!).

I'm always surprised when we do something new with Nate and he already knows something about it. I need to get over this. He's three and a half and learning new things every day. I (bravely) took Nate to Target to get supplies and he told me that we needed fire (yes), chocolate (yes), and a tent (I'm not committing to sleeping outdoors, kiddo). After picking up the essentials, we went home and Chris taught him how to get the fire pit started. Meanwhile, I tried to class up s'more making. Just because we're outside doesn't mean that we can't use the white 'everyday' china!

The before picture -- there is NO after picture because the s'mores were devoured instantly after assembly...

I guess that an action shots will have to do. Nate spent most of his time trying to wrangle away the chocolate squares (we quickly had to hide these) or eating the marshmallows. 

I'm not sure what possessed us to buy the jumbo sized marshmallows but I'll admit that I had never made s'mores before and I was influenced by my kiddo, in whose eyes, bigger is better.  But yeah, they are like the size of a third of his face.

And speaking of bigger and better - why roast one marshmallow when you can roast two? Double fisting sugar and playing with fire, heaven help us...