Friesencold

Since I last wrote on here, we’ve done lots of stuff. We took a family trip to Boston to visit my sister Holly and her husband Dwight (plus my mom met us there), I got a cold (not great), TJ’s parents came for a visit (great), I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (good), and I finished reading and taking notes on Respectful Kids by Todd Cartmell (finally!). I won’t be writing about all that tonight or in the foreseeable future, but I do have some pictures to share of a few things we have lots of around here.

TJ’s parents brought all the rest of TJ’s old Legos with them to pass on to Bauer and Cash, so Bauer spent hours during their visit building things with his Papa. Here they were working on the space shuttle.

Tonight while TJ and Bauer were working on some other Lego creation, I had fun picking out and putting together as many Lego men as I could find. I don’t think I have them all, but I’d say this picture has about 47 of them.

Earlier today we went to the farmer’s market and I was finally able to buy a big box of peaches I had been hoping for all summer. I got 24 pounds for $24 and I counted every single one to find out I’d purchased 80 peaches! I can’t wait to make peach ice cream the same way I make banana ice cream all the time.

All 80 peaches wouldn’t fit on the one shelf I had cleared off for them, so I picked out any with bruises and put them in this bowl so we will use these up first.

I was also the lucky recipient today of a big box of bananas that a friend of mine who runs a food pantry gave me from their surplus. That’s a lot of banana ice cream too! Now I just have to go peel and freeze ‘em all.

#1 – Chick-fil-A is coming to Aurora (the town next to us)!

#2 – Cash is now 9 months old.

Here’s his 9-month picture in his carseat.

#3 – I’ve made it 9 months breastfeeding. Only 3 months to go! I checked this morning and I have about 120 ounces of breastmilk stored in the freezer, which means Cash will get to have breastmilk beyond his first year, OR we will get to go on a trip! For my 9-month reward for myself, I bought a box of notecards with poppies on them. I love ‘em.

#4 – We just discovered Rosemary Wells at the library. I never knew about Max and Ruby. We got Max’s Dragon Shirt, Max’s Chocolate Chicken, Max’s Bunny Business, and Max Counts His Chickens. Those are some funny books. I told Bauer when we went to the library that day that we could not get Clifford, Berenstain Bears, Froggy, Little Critter, or Curious George. But it’s not like there isn’t plenty else to choose from.

Other books we got besides the Max ones are:
Rosemary Wells’ Shy Charles, McDuff Moves In, McDuff and the Baby, and McDuff’s Wild Romp
Martin Waddell’s Farmer Duck, Hi Harry!, and Mimi and the Picnic
Byron Barton’s Trucks and Trains (this is by far Bauer’s favorite of the mix)
John Wallace’s Tiny Rabbit
Eve Bunting’s No Nap and Our Library
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Spoon
Bernard Waber’s Do You See a Mouse?

We were mostly on the W row.

Here’s Bauer reading Trains to his friend Brooke yesterday.

#5 – My sister sent me the cutest little handmade blue cloth bird ever. And a card with this quote on front:

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -Henry David Thoreau

And now for Bauer and Cash’s excitement.

I think I’ve mentioned that Bauer is always excited for me to take a picture of him holding Munchie like this. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that we call Cash Munchie.

Cash is excited about his super-cool giraffe Sophie that Gigi gave him when we stayed at her house. Read about Sophie here.

On the other hand, Cash is not too excited about being in his pack-n-play at the moment. That’s Munchie making his Scrunchie face.

P.S. I’m excited about what we had for lunch today and I plan to post that recipe soon.