I know, I know, I don't post for over a month and then I post 30 things in one day. I can't help it if my girls are brilliant, beautiful and funny!
Yesterday at Bechtel Family Fun Day Maya and I got matching Henna. It is so fun to see her growing up and wanting to do grown up things. We missed you this year Talya!
I wanted to see how high Gemma could count so I asked her to count as high as she could. She looked at me with this devious grin and began to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11. I said, sweetie, did you forget 9? She got this silly grin on her face and said 7 ate 9! and dissolved into uncontrollable giggles.
A bit of explanation.... I am so SICK to death of listening to Dora, The Backyardigans and Laurie Berkner (Sorry Laurie!) in the car, so I started looking for new kids music. One of my all time favorite bands is the Bare Naked Ladies. I saw on Itunes that they had put out a kids album so I didn't even listen to it, I just bought it. Fun for mommy, fun for the kids. I love this album. The first song is all about how 7 ate 9. If you have a chance to pick up the album I highly recommend it. We are currently in our 5th week of Dora and Backyardigans ban. Laurie you are back on the playlist!
My Pretty little mermaids at the beach. Have you ever taken a photo and you aren't sure why but you just love it? That is this picture of Maya hanging on my leg. I love the look on her face sneaking up on me in the water trying to scare me. I love those girls.
Usually when I post it is because I'm really proud of my kids but today, I'm proud of myself. I've been trying to sneak more vegetables into their diet. OK not THEIR diet but Maya's! So I decided to make her favorite food Lasagna. I can never go wrong with Maya and pasta. I found some spinach lasagna noodles at the store the other day so I decided to make some "green" lasagna. I browned some beef, added some stewed tomatoes and threw in some frozen spinach I had in the freezer left over from another dish. Then I noticed I had a half of a can of pumpkin in the fridge so I threw that in as well. Mixed it all up and threw in a packet of dry spaghetti mix. Layered the green lasagna noodles my meat mixture and some parmesan and mozzarella. I was worried it would be too dry as you don't get lasagna noodles that you precook here so I poured some béchamel sauce over the top and threw it in the oven. I was a little worried about it as I had Tracey, Lewis and Layla here for dinner but it was really good! Maya didn't even ask what the green stuff was in the meat, she just asked for another piece. Yea! A small victory for a mom whose child hates vegetables!
