Abby at DQ
– Posted from my iPhone
Andrew
Andrew is turning into quite the athlete. He loves baseball, basketball, golf. He played golf with my sister the other day for an hour and a half straight. He can throw the ball very well- very far to the point that strangers come up to me commenting on it! I am going to have scouts coming up to me soon!
Quote of the day – Andrew” I love him (his cousin Peyton)”
Quote
me (sneezing, blowing my nose): “oh no”
Andrew sympathetically: “Oh no Mama has allergies”
Fruit Tart
Abigail and I made fruit tart with our strawberries we picked today . We used Grandmaman’s recipe from her cookbook. Here it is:
Abigail putting on the finishing touches:
s:
So I think w/ my size tart pan, I need to double the tart crust recipe. I burned the crust the first time after all that work making it in the cuisine art:( So my dad and Abigail bought me pie crust from the store. I don’t think it works well to use that because the fruit tart recipe has you make a cookie type tart crust, different than a pie crust. So better luck next time. We will dig into it tomorrow. I will let you know how it tastes.
Abigail loves cooking. She will just flip through cookbooks during her quiet time. She especially is interested in desserts it seems. She wants to help cook all day. So does Andrew:) I have my hands full with all my helpers.
Strawberry picking today:
I’ve got a new haircut, summer is here, Sophie is here. Fun times!
Busy, busy
Some of Andrew’s full sentences: “I hurt myself”
(to his doll): “I go Safeway I be right back”
Franglais sentences: “I want bateau.”
“I want take sieste”
Well my last day of volunteering was Friday. I just love the teacher I work with. She is so full of energy like me but maybe even more! She had chicks in her class, an ant farm and currently there are some type of bugs and caterpillars turning into butterflies. It is so fun to be in her class helping with all the activity. They are performing plays- like three different ones. So I got to see them practice all that.
Abigail’s dance recital was Saturday. She did great. After that I headed to my teacher book club to discuss Half Broke Horses. Wonderful group of women, great book.
Kyle and Abigail are working on a “Peter Pan project” as Abigail calls it. They are making their own 3 D map of Neverland.
Here they are working on it:
Abigail has started a journal. We were reading Amelia ‘s notebook and got the idea. She has me write about her life and we glue in photos and she draws pictures.
Andrew just loves his Daddy. He was so excited because Kyle took him on the bus Friday. He had been dying to go with him. He is very into buses and riding them. We also went to a track meet over the weekend:
Tap Dance Recital video
Quote of the Day
Andrew: “ole ole” (pronounced olay olay) This is what he says for desolee (in English “sorry”). He cannot yet say the whole word desolee. It’s very cute.
Andrew is very polite. He is always saying “no thank you” I guess I did something right there:)
He sings a lot- mostly Itsy Bitsy Spider. It is so adorable. There is nothing sweeter:) I also hear him singing The Wheels on the Bus.
Abigail got her first manicure on Friday. She sat through me getting a pedicure and then kept her hands still during the manicure! She loved it and loves her nails.
We went to Off the Waffle after the manicure. I tried to take her to Holy Donuts but it looks like it’s gone:(
Fruity Waffles
I made a new version of waffles today. Yesterday we had sour dough waffles (Grandpa’s recipe), they came out well. Today we made fruity waffles for the first time- same recipe as the basic waffles we usually make but you add a 1/2 cup of applesauce/ pureed fruit. I added applesauce, they were delish! A little sweeter than the basic waffles. We loved them. And everyone is getting a fruit serving along with their carbs:)
Andrew’s thing the last few days with Daddy home- when I get in the car after Kyle and the kids, Andrew says “no Mommy no Mommy” because he doesn’t want me to go with them:) He just wants to go out with his daddy, no Mommy allowed:( Kyle finds this hilarious! Andrew and Kyle did a boys outing a while back to a baseball game. They are starting to do more of those lately. Andrew loves it!
Quote of the Day
Abigail (as we are driving in the rain): “It’s a good day for flowers.” She is growing up an Oregonian appreciating the rain noting that the flowers will get their food 🙂 Love her optimism!
Fun filled day: Zany Zoo, the new gymnastics place in town with a pirate ship leading to a foam pit to jump down into! Then Shari’s with friends- another humungous table with 6 adults and 8 kids, nap (Andrew slept 3 hours!), dinner at Bawby’s , hike and now they are asleep.
Summer’s Coming
Beautiful weather yesterday and today. I love wearing tshirts, rolling down the windows in the car, feeling the breeze on my face, seeing Abigail’s hair fly up as we drive.
quote of the week: “ot club” Abigail can’t say yacht club so she says “ot club” , so cute. My parents belong to the one in Eugene.
Andrew is into puzzles. I sat down and did them with him one day and now he wants to do them all the time. Every day he grabs my hand and says “Mama Andrew puzzle” It’s our special daily ritual now. It’s one of the things we do together when he wakes up at 6 am and we have the house to ourself:)
The kids started swim class tonight. We haven’t done classes since last summer. Abigail has graduated to Pikes. She did great. She swam on her back, did jumps, blew bubbles, all the things she won’t do with me. It’s amazing what kids will do under peer pressure:) Andrew is much better in the water now than last summer. Last summer he was fussy in the water but now he enjoys it. He took a little time to relax tonight but by the end he was doing jumps off the side.
We had a great day yesterday. Andrew requested he wanted to ride a bus one day so I arranged an outing. We went with some friends to Springfield on the bus. We went to the library- did puzzles, computer games, puppet shows and read books . Then we all went out to lunch. the kids were wide eyed with all the excitement of riding the bus.
