Yucca and Chayote……

So, Tuesday decided we should try some new foods…so this weekend, when we were at the grocery food store, we picked out yucca and chayote.  Yucca is a tropical root vegetable and chayote is a type of squash.  Both sounded interesting.

I looked up some recipes and decided to make yucca fries.  You had to cut them up and then boil them with garlic and bay leaves for 30 minutes.  After the yucca was boiled, you fried it….just like french fries.  The chayote, I decided to just saute in some olive oil.

Well, did we enjoy it…..they were alright.  The yucca fries did taste pretty much like normal fries…..if we put ketchup on them….you probably couldn’t tell the difference.  The chayote was a bit bland.  I think if I had used a different recipe, it would have tasted better.  I think the worst part was that my house still smells like frying yucca!  I can’t get rid of the smell…….(I know my plate below looks a bit sparse..but I still have a bit of morning sickness and the thought of the yucca and chayote didn’t really appeal to me too much!!)

Marbles…..

Today River showed me her marble collection. They are kept in a “very special little box” that she keeps in her room.  She explained each marble to me, along with its name.

This one is the “cake marble because the inside looks like a chocolate cake.”

Her sister, Tuesday, gave her the marbles and she considers them quite a treasure.  They must always be put away properly so that they don’t get lost!

This is the “cat’s eye marble because it looks like a green cat’s eye.  It is the most  specialest one!”

The blue is the “fan’s eye marble because inside it looks like a fan….a little blue fan.  And the green one is called green grass eye because the color looks like grass.”

Embrace the camera…..old photos

Looking back through old photos is always fun.  We’ve been slowly trying to scan them into our computer……but there are so many!  I found this old photo from 1998 of Tuesday and I…she was about 4 months old.  I was 31 years old……so young.  Tuesday was the cutest little round baby….she was all rolls and fat!!

Go embrace the camera today……

Projects…..

Lately, River’s craft projects have been LARGE….and they keep getting larger!  She enjoys working on a project for many days..which I really like.

I’m not sure where we are going to hang all these “masters of art”…as she refers to them….but we’ll find a space.  Her latest master piece took about a week to complete!  And she did it all on her own…..

It seems like each project must include all “mediums”……tape, glue, glitter, pom poms, stickers, drawing, painting, etc……  I guess that is only logical when you are four!

Mother’s Day….

It was such a wonderful Mother’s Day.  The weather was perfect, along with everything else!

I got breakfast in bed..and then we all got into bed and watched some bad tv.  Then, we did some yard work….some..not a lot!  Then we went off to my favorite Ethiopian restaurant in Philadelphia!  Yum!

After we got back from dinner, I tried to take some family photos….

That didn’t go too well……they sort of got sillier and sillier…..It was a great day!

Embrace the camera…..

Happy Thursday…I wanted to take some photos of River and I…and include my growing belly.  I’m 21 weeks now and getting bigger each day!  The little guys are growing steadily.  River had a bit of a spill two days ago and at first she didn’t want her photo taken.  She said she was a bit embarrassed…but I reassured her that she looked as beautiful as ever!  Well, go embrace the camera….and enjoy….

Lunch…….

One day, I made the mistake of making River’s lunch “fancy”.  Now, she wants all her lunches to be arranged in beautiful designs.   Some days she wants me to do the design, other days she wants me to get all the parts cut out, so that she can make the arrangement.  At least she is being creative…or forcing me to be…..