Bubble-Mania!

Paisley was being an absolute PILL last night! The sure fire way to settle her down is to throw her in the tub with mom. (Still trying to convince dad to take a bath with her. He's showered with the other two as babies, but not Paisley yet.) Anyway, Paisley does not sink. Which is a good thing when you are a baby in a big ol' tub of water. I had my hand behind her neck supporting her and the rest of her just floated around. I backed her into the bubbles to wash her hair and she looked just too darn cute that I had to yell for Brian to get the camera.

Biblio-Tag (Finally)

I just realized that I never played the biblio-tag game from Jen! Silly me!

First a review of the rules.

1) Find the nearest book with at least 123 pages.
2) Turn to page 123
3) Find the 5th sentence
4) Post the next 3 sentences
5) Tag 5 people

And since everybody in our family is rule-breaker, I might as well continue the trend. Here are 5 books with their 3 sentences conjoined at random.


She drew in a sharp breath and held it when the father of one her students slapped his cards on the table and lifted a glass of something to his lips. The look on Mar’s face sometimes, when he looked at Altan…well, there was no love lost between the two of them. “What is it?” I asked him. She shut the directory and put on the kettle and walked into the hallway to listen for Sophie, who was napping upstairs; all was silent, except for the gradual while of the kettle. She had one of her old wrestling holds on my shoulder. Her conscience resisted the idea that there could be anything wrong in making this call-hadn’t she phoned him many times to arrange play dates?-but the more it resisted, the more strongly the other thoughts rallied for her attention. She suspected he wasn’t drinking water. All the tribe knew that. When we were called back to Dr. Pelinowsky’s office again he looked just ever so slightly shaken up. Every day it became clearer that that there was a decision in the Tribe of the Horse. “Well, maybe not back then. But now…” “Now?” Her gaze swept the room and rested on a tall, narrow, table like structure adjacent to the swinging doors. What would it be like-with Alan?


Now, that last sentence is a pure coinsidence that I would grab a book with Alan's name in it. If anyone can figure out any of my five books I will be super impressed. I'll post next week what books they were.

I tag:
1) Sara, so she'll have something to help pass the time while Josh is deployed and so she can start a blog of her own! :)
2) Becky
3) Kassy (I'll e-mail her all this)
4) Mom
5) I don't have a 5th person! So sad!

Who's Who??

I found some baby pictures of Lorelei and thought that I would put them up to see if people think that she and Paisley look anything alike. Dr. Wood, my OB, said that he has never seen kids from the same family look so different from eachother than mine do. What do you think? I would put some of Houston up , but alas all of his pics from the baby days are pre-digital camera.

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

A really fun game for me is to open up my picture folders on the computer and ask Lorelei who everybody is in the picture. She saw this picture (Brian has it set as his wallpaper)

Lorelei looked at it and, very happily, exclaimed "Mommy!" I just love how my children see me!

More Yum-o Food

I am so proud of myself today. I made three yummy things and I "healthed" them up.

First: Pork Chops. I baked them but first I mixed up some BBQ sauce to coat them. I mixed BBQ from Corky's (if you're from here than you know that is some good eats) with wheat germ and a Del Monte 1st food jar of baby food squash.

The big bonus to this sauce was that because it was so thick, it didn't drip al over the place. It also kept all the moisture in the chops making them very tender. I baked them at 425 for 15 minutes.

Second: The side dish.

What you are seeing here (badly out of focus) are cooked carrots. I love cooked carrots with a honey-mint glaze. Paisley tried peaches today and wasn't that fond of them. So I took what she didn't eat and mixed that with the honey and crushed dried mint leaves and then tossed with the carrots. Very good! We are still trying to get Houston to eat his vegatables, but Lorelei ate two big helpings. Thankfully, Houston likes raw vegs. So while Lorelei ate all the carrots, Houston had two helpings of sliced green pepper.

Finally: Dessert!

This is just your basic chocolate chip cookie. The only difference is that I added about 3/4 cups of chopped peanuts (which I shelled myself...left over decorations from the PWOC Valentine's Hoe-Down party). Also, the original recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour. I used 1 cup AP flour and 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour. Everybody is diggin' on these at my house tonight! Too bad I can't share any with the rest of my family. I have a few more ideas that I want to try with this, but I'm going to keep them to myself for now. I don't want to share them until I know that they taste good.

I know I promised Jennifer that I would get this up sooner, but hey! Better late than never, right?

Here is some yummy, yummy food that we have been trying and I wanted to share them with everyone.

Turkey & Black Bean Tacos

Heat 1/2 Tbsn of Olive Oil in a skillet and then brown 1/2 pound of ground turkey. Add 1 16oz can of black beans (make sure you drain them and rinse them well), 1/2 package of taco seasoning and 2/3 cup water. Bring to a boil and then reduce/simmer for 5 minutes. Serve in a taco shell (hard or soft, doesn't matter) with all your favorite taco fixings.

Spinach & Meatball Stuffed Pizza

You need: 10oz package of chopped frozen spinach

1 tube refrigerated pizza crust

15oz container of part-skim ricotta cheese

24 frozen cocktail-sized meatballs

1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese

15 1/2 oz pizza sauce

Heat oven qo 400 degrees. Coat a 10" oven proof skillet with cooking spray (I used my pyrex pie pan and it worked just fine). Unroll pizza dough, fit into skillet allowing corners to hang over then edge. Squeeze the water from your spinach. Then mix the spinach, riccotta cheese, meatballs and 3/4 cup of the mozz. cheese in a larget bowl. Spread 1/2 of the pizza sauce on the bottom of the dough. Top with the riccotta cheese mixture then spread the remaining pizza sauce followed by the remaining mozz. cheese. Fold corners of dough over your pizza. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden.

I didn't have enough mozz. cheese, so I used a 1/2 mixture with cheddar cheese and it was just as yummy.

Oww!

I went to the doctor's office yesterday to have my hand looked at. I hurt it sometime on Thursday. Doing what, I'm not sure. Anyway, it hurt on Friday but not bad enough to warrant an appointment. That and Brian was coming home from Gulfport that day and I needed to be home so that I could pick him up. I decided to give it the weekend and see how I felt. By Sunday, it was pretty bad. I thought about getting permission to go to the ER, but in the end thought that would be a bigger pain than trying to get seen on Monday. Boy was I wrong! The appointment line opens at 7am for dependents. I called at 7:02 and was nuber 10 in line. By the time I got through all the appointments were taken. The did manage to get me seen off base though that afternoon. By this time, gripping things and turing my hand certain ways were very painful. I honestly thought that I had either broken something in my hand or at the very least had a stress fracture. The doctor felt and manuvered my hand for a few minutes and didnt' feel anything to warrant an X-Ray. He said that I probably just had some tendonitis. So I can use my 800mg montrin (very sparingly since I am nursing) ice and a brace for the next two weeks. I'm supposed to take the brace off a few times during the day to do some range of motion. So later today I will be taking it off to do dishes. No dishwasher and Brian works mids so he is sleeping. That leaves me to do dishes. Anyway, here is a lovely picture of my brace.