We Are Cooking!

It's been a while since a new post! K was busy last week with a pretty big paper, so we kept a low profile. It was a pretty quiet week.

The kids have had water play outside all week. What will we do when the cold weather comes?


Some random updates:

1. The good news - E slept through the night two nights ago. For the first time in more than a month! The bad news - she woke up at 6.30am and was ready for the day. 6.30am! It was super bright already by then.

2. We went down to the LA Farmer's Market again on Saturday so that I could attend a cooking class at Sur La Table: Summer Pies and Tarts. I forgot to bring the camera along, but I've just recreated a Mixed Berry Galette at home today. Pie crust from scratch. It's not perfect... but it's from scratch. And yes, it's supposed to look rustic.

3. J had his first taste of cooking. Well, preparing food, at least. K promised him he could help make meatballs, so he was really excited. And as K was getting everything ready, he was running around, chanting, "We are cooking! We are cooking!". So here he is, making meatballs. His are on the yellow tray. (Ok, so they're not quite balls, but who cares.)

4. 9 days and counting. Yay! We've seen the longest stretch of cooking and having dinner (and most lunches) at home. We've never had to cook so often before, but eating out here is not only quite expensive, the food's not all that great either. Food courts here are bleah. And with E, it's lots easier to eat at home even though it means a huge clean-up afterwards.

5. We checked out the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens today, just a five-minute drive away. J insisted on getting a green rubber lizard at the gift shop. It appears we are at that stage of a boy's life already, when he's fascinated with creepy crawlies. He says it's a good lizard because it eats mosquitoes and flies. And he decided it was a girl lizard and named it Ammam.