Pictures From Today

Naptime...sort of

I was walking by Macy's room and peaked in expecting to see her resting peacefully, instead this is what I saw: Updated-My mom sent a picture to remind me of the things I use do during my naptime.

Our Nutritious Dinner Tonight...

I picked up the Sneaky Chef cookbook from the library this week and did a lot of pureeing today. Tonight, I fixed chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans and a biscuit. It is my usual recipe, but to the chicken, the puree that I added was a broccoli, peas, and spinach puree along with wheat germ and to the potatoes, cauliflower and zucchini. Turned out pretty good! The puree wasn't detectable in the potatoes, but in the chicken you could see a tiny bit of green from the broccoli, but couldn't taste it. I added 1/4 cup of puree to the chicken and potatoes, so it isn't a huge amount, but I know it is more than what we normally eat and every little bit adds up. I would recommend trying it!

Macy and Charlie's friends

Macy made a new friend today with the neighbor dog, a German Shepherd.

Charlie made a new friend too, his reflection in the dishwasher, who he thought was quite funny!

Here are a couple more that I snapped today...

New Niece and Kid Pictures

Congratulations to my brother and sister-in-law for the birth of their new daughter, Lila Victoria! To see pictures of her go here

These are from the past few days. Here are a couple of Macy enjoying here McDonald's ice cream.

Macy and Charlie were having a great time in the bath together splashing. They both thought it was hilarious to splash each other!

And after the bath...

Vegetables

Charlie is a very good eater. He normally happily gobbles up whatever I give him. The only thing I have found he doesn't like are peas.

I guess I can't blame him, they are liquefied peas.

Continuing on the Vegetable theme. Did you happen to see Oprah yesterday? Jerry Seinfeld's wife was on and she wrote a cookbook Deceptively Delicious, she talks about pureeing vegetables and putting them in regular food that kids like, like chicken nuggets, brownies, stuff like that. I put a similar cookbook on reserve at the library, The Sneaky Chef (Seinfeld's book isn't at the library yet). I definitely would like to try some of the things Jerry's wife talked about. If anyone has tried either of the cookbooks, let me know how the recipes are.

The Zoo

Seth had a busy day working today, so the kids and I went to the zoo. They enjoyed seeing the animals and I took the super zoom lens on the camera to play with. Here are a few of the pictures I took:

Since I had the zoom lens on, I had to stand like 30 feet away from the kids to get a picture of them, and I didn't want to look like a weirdo yelling at them from that far away to get their attention, but here is one that I did take of them.

Macy and Charlie Pictures

On Wednesday, I tried to get some pictures of Macy and Charlie sitting nicely together on the chair...

As you can see in the pictures, neither of them were all that interested in doing that. But, I did manage to get this one that I like.

Hear No Trashman

Wednesday mornings are traumatic at our house, because it is when the trash man comes. Macy is terrified of the truck. When she hears him, she covers her ears and gets on the couch and says "Bye trash man!" until he is gone. Overall, I think she is brave for a 2 1/2 year old, but she does have some strange fears, like the trashman, the "big, big TV" (aka the movie theater) and cow mooing sounds played on the computer. So, if there is ever a movie made about a trashman who likes to listen to cows on his computer, you can bet we won't be seeing it.

Cheese...

Here are a few of Charlie playing today this afternooon while Macy was taking her nap. (yes, he still in his PJs in the afternoon).

And this one of Macy is from a few days ago. Can you tell she is saying "cheese!"?