Seriously?

February 9, 2010 at 10:36 am | In 365, everyday life, family, toddlers | Leave a Comment
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I am feeling sick again. Seriously? What do we need to do to get better around here? Scott is still coughing and hacking and now I have a sore throat and aches. I went to bed early last night but I am still exhausted. I am planning on doing a good clean today to see if we can purge some of the germs. Back when I started at the daycare and in teaching they always warn you that you get sick a lot the first year because of building up immunities. I am wondering if that applies when you move to a new city with a different climate?

Yesterday though we went to the San Diego Zoo. It is so nice having passes because we can go for a few hours and see what we want and then go home when we are tired. We got there around 9:45 and headed straight for the children’s zoo. Scott wanted to walk and it is pretty quiet on that side so I figured it was a good place for him explore.

He wasn’t sure what to make of this guy. He got out of the stroller and walked over to him but kept an eye on me the whole time. Once he figured out he was a statue he was okay touching it. After we wandered the path in the children’s zoo we rode the Skyfari tram to see the polar bears. Scott loves the tram. The polar bear exhibit is under construction though so instead we saw the zebras and then the pandas. After a snack we headed up the big cat trail which we haven’t ever been on. By the time we got to the top it was 11:15 and Scott was getting tired. We decided to go and see the giraffe’s (his favorite) and then head out. But there was some construction on an exhibit by the giraffes so we had to stop and watch that too. Construction vehicles at the zoo, does it get any better?

Once we finished at the zoo we drove home for some lunch. Scott tried to refuse a nap again but by 2:30 he was so exhausted he fell asleep and slept for two and a half hours. Hopefully we are on our way back to our napping schedule.

39/365

February 8, 2010 at 1:39 pm | In 365, everyday life, family | Leave a Comment
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Yesterday was my husbands birthday and we had a great day. We went to the Children’s Museum of San Diego and, while it was neat, it was nowhere near as cool as the San Jose Children’s Museum. The one in San Diego is more arts based which is a nice concept but it was sparse on activities for the kiddos, especially those of the toddler age. We arrived a bit early so we walked around outside and came across these:

These were some neat poem carved into the stones on a ledge. I liked this one too:

How often do you hear the word skeedadling in conversation?

38/365

February 7, 2010 at 9:45 am | In 365, everyday life, family | Leave a Comment
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Today is my husband’s birthday. I took a picture of the wrapping paper my son and I colored this week to wrap up his gift.

We got him some new Pearl iZumi bike shorts since he has almost ridden through his current ones. He seems to like them and might not need to exchange them.

We are off to the Children’s Museum this morning for some good old fashioned play time!

36/365 and 37/365

February 6, 2010 at 10:11 am | In 365, family | Leave a Comment
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I posted about my baking yesterday but I also had a photo I meant to come back and post. However it seems that totally ruining dinner and then a night out with friends helped that to not happen.

So here was yesterday’s photo:

This a garbage truck that belongs to my son. His grandpa bought it for him for Christmas and while it’s big and cool it’s also totally age inappropriate. We actually put it in the closet a few days after Christmas since my son cut his finger open on the sharp edge and we were afraid he would gash his head in on the incredibly sharp plastic piece that sticks up on the back. But the other day my son was in his room grunting so when I check on him I discovered he was trying to slide the door open because he has seen the wheels of the truck. So I took it out and he hasn’t stopped playing since. He is a more coordinated walker now and doesn’t trip as much so I think he will be less likely to topple forward and hit his head.

So on to today’s photo:

Have the Cake Challenge January

February 5, 2010 at 1:11 pm | In Have the Cake, food | 2 Comments
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Last month’s challenge for Have the Cake was Rugelach. I have never made rugelach and I can’t even remember ever really eating rugelach so I was excited to tread on this new territory. However as the month progressed I simply kept pushing this task to the back burner. There was always something else to do: gifts to knit, a house to clean, laundry, sewing projects. Then we traveled home for a week and I plain forgot to even bake the challenge.

So once I returned home on the 30th I thought I should get on with the baking. I started by looking for a good recipe. The recipe that was posted was a good one, but I am just not a big fruit baked in cookies fan and wasn’t excited by the apricot filling. I decided to use a dough recipe by Ina Garten and it proved to be yummy. It included cream cheese which some of the other bakers used and raved about.

I decided to make a chocolate filling instead and made it up. I used a block of cream cheese, and a little bit of butter. Now I wanted to add some cocoa powder, however while I was digging in my cabinet to find some this happened:

The vanilla was sitting on the edge and I bumped it and it fell. The lid broke and it splattered. And to top it off I didn’t have any cocoa powder. I had used it all up while making hot cocoa mix, so I threw that in instead. The first batch I made had the filling and some walnuts in it and they tasted good, but were missing something. So the second batch I used the filling plus some mini chocolate chips and pistachos. Sounds good right?

These were okay but would have tasted a lot better with salted nuts. Oh well. Anyway, I cut and rolled these and then into the oven for 18 minutes.

They baked up nicely and were perfectly browned when coming out of the oven.

So overall these were a very simple cookie to make. My husband has requested I make them again sometime. I think I will work on my filling though, the chocolate flavor needed to be kicked up and the nuts needed adjusting, but the dough was perfect and I am willing to tweak this recipe.

35/365 Just like daddy

February 4, 2010 at 9:30 am | In 365, everyday life, family, food, toddlers | Leave a Comment
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This morning Scott refused to eat his cereal until I poured some milk in it, just like daddy. So I added some milk to his shredded wheat. But then he wanted a spoon, just like daddy. So I gave him a spoon. Then he ate his cereal, just like daddy:

(This photo looks pretty good, to my untrained, unbiased eye :)

After he ate a few pieces, he decided he needed to drink some of the milk from the bowl, just like daddy:

Oops, dribbled a bit on the chin there, just like daddy.

We love books (34/365)

February 3, 2010 at 12:25 pm | In 365, everyday life, family, toddlers | Leave a Comment
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I am so happy that my son loves books. I think this is partly due to the fact that we read to him a lot as a baby. We still read a lot too. When Scott was really little we had to put an ointment on him that had to sit on his skin for 15 minutes before we could dress him. We would grease him up and lay on the bed and read while we waited to put on his clothing. And now he will sit and look at books for 20-30 minutes all by himself sometimes. Who knows if that’s why he does it but I am so overjoyed that he loves books as much as he does.

33/365

February 2, 2010 at 12:46 pm | In 365, everyday life, toddlers | Leave a Comment
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Ugh, we seem to be sick again. Scott has a runny nose, cough and sneezes. I have a sore throat, tiredness and just plain achy-ness. It’s too bad too because it’s a nice day outside. We have been reading a lot of books today and spending time with this guy:

Since we arrived home Scott dug this guy out and has been carting him around non stop. We call him blue bear.

My little baker (32/365)

February 1, 2010 at 9:22 pm | In 365, everyday life, food, toddlers | Leave a Comment
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Aw yeah, startin’ him out right. My son is fascinated by this book. He pulls it off the shelf and just flips through it. I had taken it out yesterday because I was looking up the pound cake recipe and left it on the table. Then this morning I was emptying the dryer and forgot to push in the chair, so Scott climbed up onto it and was just flipping through the book. He took particular interest in the page about pie dough so maybe someone else will be making the apple pies soon enough…

31/365

January 31, 2010 at 9:31 pm | In 365, everyday life | Leave a Comment
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Here’s what our fridge looked like earlier today. We ate up and/or cleaned out before we left for our trips so we came home to a pretty empty fridge. In fact my husband bought the milk when he got home Friday, so it was even more empty before that. Good thing we went grocery shopping today.

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