Lettuce Be #5

Sarek eats the second harvest of the butter lettuce he helped plant and water. Gives direct meaning to the song we sing before dinner....

Thank you for this food,

This food, this glorious food.

And the sun,

And the minerals,

And the vegetables,

And the animals,

That make it possible.

Basket Cases

The video audio is messed up...turn up the sound all the way, ignore the whoopie cushion noise, and what you hear will make your day. Here's to you, Grandma Tarah and Banu!

Block Buster

A Blast from the Past

What a difference a year makes! Pictures that recently resurfaced from our trip to Ohio last June...wish we could go again this year.

I'm So Forked

The first day of feeding herself with utensils.

Night Owls

Zeke and Shaina babysat Nola so Deena and I could go see Iron Man 2
for Alden's Birthday. Sarek spent the night with Dex and his
grandparents.

Thanks guys.

Cajun Cornbread Boy

Sarek is in the middle of a love affair with cornbread. He loves the cornbread from my work cafeteria, so Brett started baking cornbread with Sarek this month. Cornbread bread, cornbread muffins, cornbread this and cornbread that. So it was very synchronous when I saw the perfect present for him in New Orleans last weekend....Cajun Cornbread Boy, a book based loosely on the gingerbread man story. Cajun Cornbread Boy runs away from home and into the bayou where he encounters a rascally raccoon, fierce fox, and artful alligator. All want him for a meal. He is a fast one, though, and gets away everytime. His song: "Run, chere, run! As fast as you can. You can't catch me---I'm full of cayenne!" His spiciness saves him in the end. New vocabulary words: chere, mon amis, snout, boudin, bayou, skillet. Sarek is mesmerized by this story. We have read it on average 2 times a day since Jazzfest. Imagine his delight today when he got to make a California Cornbread Boy with his dad and sister! Hair=carrots. Eyes=unsulfured apricots. Ears=mandarin oranges. Nose=Fried tofu cube. Mouth=green bean.