Thursday, May 7, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sushi Hai
Back in December we had some sushi for dinner before flying back to the east coast, and when I say "we" I do mean all of us:
RJ loves sushi (california rolls):
RJ loves Miso:
We mixed some wasabi in with his mashed potatoes -- that he did not love. So, as one of his late Christmas presents after we got back we bought him the Melissa & Doug Sushi set.
RJ loves sushi (california rolls):
RJ loves Miso:
We mixed some wasabi in with his mashed potatoes -- that he did not love. So, as one of his late Christmas presents after we got back we bought him the Melissa & Doug Sushi set.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Tale of Two Easters: Adult Edition
We got a babysitter so that us adults could head to San Francisco over nap time and have some adult entertainment.
Easter Parade
As we were walking down the street we remark -- are those cows? Are those dancing cows? Are those dancing cows on rollerblades? Then we realize it is either a regular weekend in San Francisco or the Easter parade complete with drag queens (yes you did read the sentence correctly).
Bring Your Own Big Wheels
Big People on Kids Toys going down the steepest/crookedest street in San Francisco IN COSTUME
Since the name of the event is Bring Your Own Big Wheel (which is an annual Easter Sunday event), and I don't keep a big wheel in my back pocket, I unfortunately was unprepared or I would've been in the fray myself, but 40? Schteve? Dave? Dawber? I'd like a souped up Big Wheel that could handle these curves for next year. Or better yet - we should ALL do it!! If a guy on a modified trash can can make it down alive, a souped up long axle big wheel should too. A word to the wise...bring your own helmet too. My favorite wipeout was when the dumb guy carrying his big wheel up the hill got taken out by a heat of big wheels thundering down the hill.
Here is the official video and a collection of pictures.
Mission Bars
What Easter Sunday would be complete without Happy Hour?
Organic Sushi
To finish out the evening, Lance found an organic sushi restaurant in the Mission. They had the largest rolls I've ever seen. Fabulous Easter dinner! It probably makes up for the fact that we ate Turkey on Good Friday...oops.
I think the only thing we missed that was Easter-related in SF was the "Hunky Jesus" contest that we heard about too late!
This Easter was much better than last Easter, which I spent grading papers!
Easter Parade
As we were walking down the street we remark -- are those cows? Are those dancing cows? Are those dancing cows on rollerblades? Then we realize it is either a regular weekend in San Francisco or the Easter parade complete with drag queens (yes you did read the sentence correctly).
Bring Your Own Big Wheels
Big People on Kids Toys going down the steepest/crookedest street in San Francisco IN COSTUME
Since the name of the event is Bring Your Own Big Wheel (which is an annual Easter Sunday event), and I don't keep a big wheel in my back pocket, I unfortunately was unprepared or I would've been in the fray myself, but 40? Schteve? Dave? Dawber? I'd like a souped up Big Wheel that could handle these curves for next year. Or better yet - we should ALL do it!! If a guy on a modified trash can can make it down alive, a souped up long axle big wheel should too. A word to the wise...bring your own helmet too. My favorite wipeout was when the dumb guy carrying his big wheel up the hill got taken out by a heat of big wheels thundering down the hill.
Here is the official video and a collection of pictures.
Mission Bars
What Easter Sunday would be complete without Happy Hour?
Organic Sushi
To finish out the evening, Lance found an organic sushi restaurant in the Mission. They had the largest rolls I've ever seen. Fabulous Easter dinner! It probably makes up for the fact that we ate Turkey on Good Friday...oops.
I think the only thing we missed that was Easter-related in SF was the "Hunky Jesus" contest that we heard about too late!
This Easter was much better than last Easter, which I spent grading papers!
Tale of Two Easters: Family Edition
Lance and I wake up to a smiling toddler in our bed. Thank goodness we have a King Sized Mattress now - RJ actually leaves us with some room to sleep when he gets upset randomly in the middle of the night (it luckily doesn't happen too often).
Easter Baskets
While the quiche was baking Otte (who was adjusting to West Coast time after flying in to see us Saturday) woke up and helped RJ find his Easter Basket. RJ's response to the colorful basket in the pantry = "Wow!" Thank you Grandpa for the Wahl's Orange Chocolate.
Then we sent Otte looking for his Easter basket. This was actually more entertaining than RJ looking for his Easter basket, particularly because Otte, who was still up when I was hiding it the night before and was TOLD where it was, thought that I had hid it in the dryer and went on a wild goose chase in the laundry room, when it was really in the sewing cabinet in the living room. We should probably give him some slack though since he WAS pretty tired!
Egg Decorating
RJ and Daddy colored a few eggs too. RJ's hands kept ending up in the dye, but he had fun. Then Daddy had fun putting the few pieces of (unsalvagable) burnt bacon in the dye to "see what would happen". (Yeah, nothing really happened except that the yellow turned brown).
Brunch
We all sat down to a big breakfast (Quiche, Sausage, and Belgian Waffles with Strawberries and Whipped Cream), got showered and took RJ to the park on a beautiful Easter Sunday morning in sunny Tracy, CA.
Easter Baskets
While the quiche was baking Otte (who was adjusting to West Coast time after flying in to see us Saturday) woke up and helped RJ find his Easter Basket. RJ's response to the colorful basket in the pantry = "Wow!" Thank you Grandpa for the Wahl's Orange Chocolate.
Then we sent Otte looking for his Easter basket. This was actually more entertaining than RJ looking for his Easter basket, particularly because Otte, who was still up when I was hiding it the night before and was TOLD where it was, thought that I had hid it in the dryer and went on a wild goose chase in the laundry room, when it was really in the sewing cabinet in the living room. We should probably give him some slack though since he WAS pretty tired!
Egg Decorating
RJ and Daddy colored a few eggs too. RJ's hands kept ending up in the dye, but he had fun. Then Daddy had fun putting the few pieces of (unsalvagable) burnt bacon in the dye to "see what would happen". (Yeah, nothing really happened except that the yellow turned brown).
Brunch
We all sat down to a big breakfast (Quiche, Sausage, and Belgian Waffles with Strawberries and Whipped Cream), got showered and took RJ to the park on a beautiful Easter Sunday morning in sunny Tracy, CA.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Thursday's Dinner
Toddlers are famous for being fickle about their food preferences. For dinner on a recent Thursday, RJ gobbled 3 of the following four foods available to him:
Vegetable Curry, Rice, Uncured Niman Ranch Hot Dogs, Banana
Which of these four things do you think RJ refused to eat?
If you chose the vegetable curry, you are confusing RJ with a "normal" toddler. The child actually refused the hot dogs. This seems to be a recurring theme. Teacher Kasie asked me a couple of weeks ago if RJ liked hot dogs, and I told her that I really didn't know because we don't really have them too often and the few times he's had them available he spit them right back out. Apparently, they had hot dogs and honeydew for a snack at school and all the other children gobbled up their hot dogs with abandon and most wouldn't touch the honeydew, whereas RJ ate all his honeydew, refused to eat the hot dogs and kept asking for more honeydew!
He consistently refuses meats of all kinds. Occasionally I can sneak a meatball in his spaghetti and he occasionally takes a bite of Ian's chicken or fish nuggets, but he's mostly vegetarian.
I've tried to ask him what his deal with meat was.
Mommy: "RJ, what's wrong with your meatball?"
RJ: "No like it!!"
This isn't really a problem, but I definitely have to think more about how he's getting his iron. Luckily, he'll eat beans and lentils!
Vegetable Curry, Rice, Uncured Niman Ranch Hot Dogs, Banana
Which of these four things do you think RJ refused to eat?
If you chose the vegetable curry, you are confusing RJ with a "normal" toddler. The child actually refused the hot dogs. This seems to be a recurring theme. Teacher Kasie asked me a couple of weeks ago if RJ liked hot dogs, and I told her that I really didn't know because we don't really have them too often and the few times he's had them available he spit them right back out. Apparently, they had hot dogs and honeydew for a snack at school and all the other children gobbled up their hot dogs with abandon and most wouldn't touch the honeydew, whereas RJ ate all his honeydew, refused to eat the hot dogs and kept asking for more honeydew!
He consistently refuses meats of all kinds. Occasionally I can sneak a meatball in his spaghetti and he occasionally takes a bite of Ian's chicken or fish nuggets, but he's mostly vegetarian.
I've tried to ask him what his deal with meat was.
Mommy: "RJ, what's wrong with your meatball?"
RJ: "No like it!!"
This isn't really a problem, but I definitely have to think more about how he's getting his iron. Luckily, he'll eat beans and lentils!
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