My honey and me have had a nice couple of weeks together. Today is five years ago that I said yes to the best question I've ever been asked. Who woulda thunk we'd be having such a great life together! Well...we kind of did...
First, last weekend we decided to try to make Sushi together for the first time. We have a favorite restaraunt and I discovered a blogger friend who shared her find of frozen edamame, so decided to see if we could pull it off!
The funny thing is, it ended up costing us probably twice as much to purchase all of the ingredients and included two consecutive trips to the Asian market because after the first we realized we not only forgot the sushi rice (rather vital to the success of the roll) but had purchased rock solid frozen crab and tuna meat. So then we went to the normal grocery store and have the frozen in our freezer still. I'm not sure I know what recipe will call for our leftover imitation crab...but we will see...
Our new favorite, edamame with soy sauce.
Rolling the sushi roll.
Our California rolls and Spicy Tuna Rolls.
Enjoying our creation.
The laugh of the evening: Chocolate Ice Cream Balls.
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In other news...
These little tootsies are getting really close to total independence. It's a regular occurrence that little Ellie takes two or three steps several times a day. In fact, she's taken up to five or six steps and doesn't even fall, but plops down on her little rump as she suddenly realizes what she's doing. A few weeks ago now, I actually asked Infant Toddler Services to come out and complete an evaluation for my little non-walking almost toddler. It was such a great experience! It's funded by a grant through the state and is a free service for families who might have any concern or question about their birth to three year old. I highly recommend it as I felt they heard my concern about our little girl having little to no interest in ever graduating from her four appendage commuting. They reassured me that this is just her personality and she is well on her way. They were right, she's gotten much closer even since their visit.
We sneaked...snuck...snooked...(what is the correct past tense of sneak???) back to the Bend this past weekend for Nana's surprise 60th birthday. This is my favorite shot as she walked in and saw nearly 100 of her favorites gathered just for her. Gary did an amazing job pulling it all off.
Then, we stayed through the Fourth. Ellie is quite patriotic you know.
We just didn't realize quite how patriotic until we were finished taking photos.
We did realize though how much Ellie loves playing with other children. I didn't get dear Andrew in the shot, but Ellie and I had a great time playing with Natalie next door to Nana and Papa.
This face cracks me up. She didn't have a great time taking photos, apparently.
Daddy working pretty hard at brainwashing little Ellie into a greens girl.
Or perhaps Daddy just wants his own personal caddy.
Either way...it appears he is succeeding.
And while he is, we're having a...ball...with our little girl.
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