Our garden is finally coming to fruition and we've had quite a bit of delicious luck with our basil & tomatoes. We have picked over 30 tomatoes! Erik enjoys an appetizer of bruschetta often and is proud that all the ingredients, minus the mozzarella, is home made.
Our first haul of ripe tomatoes!
Proud Sax men with their tomatoes.
Erik is also working on his skills as a baker. He has most success in baking bread, though he recently tried his hand at an unusual cupcake recipe to enter into the 4th Annual Cupcake Swap. His blue cheese/dark chocolate cupcakes were pretty disgusting.
The face Erik is making is one most people made when tasting this concoction.
Caraway Rye Bread. Erik's been enjoying it as the outer layers of a homemade Reuben.
Besides all these wonderful things Erik has been bringing to our house, he also surprises us with an amazing sense of humor.
...his most recent joke...
Don't worry, the mustache is gone and he no longer looks creepy.
Claire:
I've been trying my hand at canning. It is much harder than I thought it would be. I stewed & diced the tomatoes before canning. We also canned some peaches that were on sale at Harris Teeter (a whole bag for $1.50!). They look great, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the peaches. Maybe a crumble?
I've also been to 18 births now, since Sept 2010. All my certification material has been sent to DONA and I am awaiting approval as a certified birth doula.
July 18th baby (home-water birth)
Karl:
Little Karl isn't quite so little any longer. He recognizes many animals and can tell you their sound. He loves saying 'night night' and 'bye bye' to anything and everything. Before bedtime Erik walks around the room with Karl and says goodnight to most things including the picture of Aunt Lele, a wooden bear Erik made in middle school, the light, robot quilte, etc...
Karl also loves reading books. Right now he is reading his favorite 'Animals' book on the floor in our kitchen. I took a picture of this exact same sight a few days ago.
Karl has graduated to a front facing car seat. I've had less luck with this car seat in transferring him, while sleeping, to his crib.
Karl is now big enough that we don't have to carry him everywhere. It's a great way to work off some of his excess energy.
I don't even mind going shopping with Karl any more because he entertains himself by hiding in the racks of clothing. One problem, though, is his desire to play with the manequins. He even went so far as checking to see if they were wearing unmentionables.
Charlie:
He's such a good dog. Besides his penchant for jumping and barking at people, he has calmed down a lot. He even lets Karl sit on his back for as long as he wants.
Poor Charlie. He does love when I hold Karl upside down and he is free to lick his face without stopping.
That's all for now :)
1 comment:
Karl is so cute. He looks a lot like the Jakob I think. All these blond boys. Max has the same carseat as Karl in Dave's car. None of my children ever transfer when asleep. They all wake up as soon as the car stops. That cupcake of EJ's sounds disgusting. Charlie is a very tolerant dog. Only our Lucky is like that.
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