June 4, 2010: Augie spent most of the morning bringing me his pirate jacket and asking me to help him put it on. I tried putting it on the right way, but he insisted that I put it on backwards. He’d wear it for about 3 minutes, take it off and then bring it to me to put on again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
June 5, 2010: My sweet little bear right after his nap.
June 6, 2010: Sunday night barbecue: brats, corn and Lip Stinger beer!
June 7, 2010: August and I picked Wyatt and his best buddy up from school and then the four of us headed up to the bakery up the street for cookies and chocolate milk.
June 8, 2010: Augie got hold of my Chapstick and rubbed it all over his cheeks. When I found him, I had to give him a little tickle because he looked so cute.
June 9, 2010: I reorganized all my bento boxes which meant matching the lids and dividers together. I also sorted them all so they fit neatly in the basket.
June 10, 2010: Wyatt’s last day of school. His class put on a little play and had a party for all the parents and families. I can’t believe my big kindergartner is a big 1st grader now.
April 30, 2010: Wyatt tells his baby cousin about the wonders of ketchup over dinner at the Pyramid Ale House.
May 1, 2010: A super fun day with one of my best friends, Allison. She came up from the south bay around lunch time and we spent the day getting pedicures, shopping and eating and drinking yummy things at restaurants.
May 2, 2010: Wyatt and I spent the afternoon at the Help a Mother Out Playdate for a cause. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you may remember that I am a big supporter of this group who collects diapers for homeless and impoverished families. May was their big fund-raising month (in honor of Mother’s day) and we attended their big party in San Francisco. If you have a minute, I encourage you to go check out their web site and see how you can get involved in the organization.
May 3, 2010: Yowza! This is what Augie’s hair looks like after a trip down the slide.
May 4, 2010: I spent the morning at the Actual Cafe in Oakland getting some work done. The moleskine and the colored pencils came along so I could take some breaks drawing pictures.
May 5, 2010: Wyatt made these stylin’ glasses at school.
May 6, 2010: My sister-in-law and I are still doing “Ladies who Lunch” every Thursday. Today’s luncheon was apple salads at Fatapple’s (I had one too, but my niece stuck with milk).
Wow! First off, I want to thank you all so much for so many nice comments about my blog! I am compiling a list of all the topics you asked about and I’m going to try to address as many as possible over the next few weeks and months.
I have selected a winner from the comments (I removed a couple duplicates from the list before picking) and the winner is lucky #14, Sara Cowley:
Can you believe it? I remembered to take a picture of a Monday snack! Wooo! This one had a slice of watermelon, some whole grain crackers and a clementine.
Tuesday:
Wyatt got a hot lunch in the thermos on Tuesday. You know how I’ve been sending him with those rice balls? Well, this morning he told me that he hates them! I have to admit that I was surprised because he’s a big rice-eater at home and I’ve been sending them in his lunch for years now and he’s never said a word. But it does explain why he rarely takes more than a bite out of them. I’m not always the sharpest tack in the box, I don’t think…
So anyway, he told me he does like warm rice so I heated one portion up in the microwave until it was piping hot and put it in his thermos along with some teriyaki pineapple meatballs. I also sent a slice of bread and some robot attack jam (in the little yellow box), as well as some strawberries and blueberries.
Oh, and for the record, he didn’t eat the rice. Furthermore, he was upset that his meatballs were touching the rice.
The toddler’s lunch box had diced, roasted chicken, veggie medley of corn, carrots, and green beans, rice, strawberries and blueberries.
Wednesday:
Wow! This was a really beige lunchbox! I didn’t really notice until I looked at this picture.
The lunch portion of this box had an apple cinnamon scone, clementines and baked tofu. The two snack boxes had an apple cereal bar, blueberries, cheddar cheese slices and pretzel sticks.
Augie’s lunch had flaked sauteed salmon leftover from Tuesday’s dinner, peas, a half a cinnamon apple scone and blueberries.
Thursday:
Thursday’s lunch and snacks repeated a lot of items from earlier in the week: clementine, whole wheat pretzel sticks, banana chunks, and corn and meatballs in the thermos. I had very specific instructions about leaving the rice out of the thermos and I had to show Wyatt the contents before he would let me close it up and put it in his lunch box. Sheesh!
Friday:
Friday’s snack was simple as can be — just some strawberries and a few pita crackers.
In other bento news, the Miami Herald published an article about bento boxes yesterday. They illustrated it with boxes made by some of my favorite bento artists (along with a few of my photos). It’s worth a minute of your time to check it out because it’s really quite lovely! You can see it here:
I had a great month for completing the goals on my big list! I knocked 6 items off my list and made progress on 3 more. Woooo! Here’s what I accomplished:
Completed:
#19 Make a softie for my niece-to-be. I used this pattern from Betz White to make this cutie little hedgehog out of some of the many sweaters I’ve felted in the past couple of months. While I was putting him together, I started calling him by the name Hedgie von Hedgenstein. My favorite part is this little heart on his tummy:
#21 Make at least 30 scrapbook layouts. — I participated in the Layout a Day Challenge that Lain Ehmann put on and I made 28 scrapbook layouts in 28 days! Phwew! That was hard. I already posted about my first 12 a few weeks ago. Here are the final 16 I made. (You can view a larger version of any of these by clicking the appropriate link below the mosaic.)
#34 Sign up for a Mommy and Me type class with Augie. — I tried out a free Gymboree class with August this month to see if it was something he would like to do. He was completely terrified by it and it was crazy expensive so we decided not to go that route. I looked around a little more and found a baby gym class at the local Y. It was crowded and chaotic, but Augie seemed to really enjoy himself, so we are going to start attending semi-regularly. And at $5 per session vs. $17 per session at Gymboree, it fits a lot better in our budget.
#36 Take August to ride the steam trains. — I took both boys up to Tilden and we rode the steam trains. Yay!
#42 Buy a laundry hamper. — We haven’t had a laundry hamper since we moved into this house. I bought two so we can sort the laundry on the fly. If I had my preference, they would have had lids, but I couldn’t find anything I liked with lids, so I’m making do with these. In any case, it looks way nicer than a big mountain of clothes on the floor of our bedroom.
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#52 Buy an every day skirt. — I bought this skirt at Old Navy. It’s totally boring, but that’s sort of the point.
In Progress:
#3 Find five reliable, healthy, delicious soup recipes. — I’ve got one more soup recipe under my belt: Easy Sausage Tortellini Soup. I followed the recipe pretty closely, but instead of cabbage, I added in baby spinach at the end. This soup took about a half an hour to throw together and it was beyond delicious. For a recipe with so few ingredients, it had an incredible depth of flavor.
#54 Find a babysitter. — I’m visiting some day cares this week to see if they’ll be a good match for Augie. Wish me luck!
Upcoming:
#4 Learn to make pickles and/or marmalade. — My brother-in-law gifted me with a huge bag of oranges so I can try making marmalade. I consulted with my friend Shae who is a marmalade queen and she suggested that I pick up a copy of the Ball Book of Home Preserving which I have now acquired. I’m going to need to look the book over and get some equipment still, but I’m hoping to knock out some marmalade in the next couple of weeks.
#7 Make macarons. — I also got my copy of I Love Macarons in the mail this week, so I’m hoping to try a batch of those in March too.
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which I have now acquired. I’m going to need to look the book over and get some equipment still, but I’m hoping to knock out some marmalade in the next couple of weeks.
in the mail this week, so I’m hoping to try a batch of those in March too.
