Catching Up with Pictures

I've made this unfortunate mistake before. I turned the oven on before taking out the dirty dishes in hiding. In my defense, it's been a long time. Against my defense, will I ever learn? I sure will miss that huge cutting board. It was perfect for watermelon. Sigh.

It looks like we have another flexible man on our hands.

And just like his brothers, he loves to eat his feet. I do wish it was a stage a couple of them had grown out of, ha! (I wont name names.....)

Yesterday when I went to put Reed in the tub I noticed the baby washrags on the back of the tub with a lizard just hanging out. They had dried that way. I didn't think much of it and went to push them in the water when he yelled, 'Don't mess up my decowation!'. He's a funny one.

Owen has currently been pretty messed up with his sleep. Oh to lose sleep once you have it again. It's no problem for me when they are newborns but once they start sleeping and then go through a non sleep phase, oh my it about kills me. I started thinking, well he is 6 months maybe he's hungry. I bought some baby food and rice cereal (on how I hate this stage). The first go round, he actually ate and seemed to quite like it.

The second go round, not so much. Not sure if you can tell but this is him arching his back and trying to escape both the spoon of food and the Bumbo he's sitting in. The last two nights he's gotten back to sleeping so for now, I'm ditching the food idea. Too. much. work.

Sigh, hostas make me miss our old, loud, cramped rental. I didn't even know what kind of plant it was for the first year we lived there but I loved how they grew in the spring. So fast and green. Without much work too, it was the best. Our friends from that awesome street had some they were cutting out and did I want them. Yes!

We have curbing and rock flower beds around our whole house with nary a plant. Daunting for this brown thumb to get started but on the north, shady side of the house I planted four of the five plants they gave us. I love them. Please stay alive hostas, I love you in the spring.

Sunday I made pork roast in the crock pot and so yesterday I knew the rest of the meat would be made into something else. I settled on pork tacos and they were a good second meal. Early afternoon I decided I wanted some Mexican Cabbage Salsa to go with them. Both Milo and I love the stuff but usually only eat it at a certain restaurant we went to where we used to live. Enter Google. Isn't it awesome? I found one that sounded similar and it was so good! Except for the chips, completely fat free and just veggies, another bonus.

Of course I can't find the link to add here. It was on the iPad and not it's nowhere to be found. I'll keep searching even though I didn't really follow the exact ingredient proportions anyway. It's one that you can make to your taste, little less of this, little more of that. Milo and I may or may not have (uh um) nearly gotten sick on the stuff last night. Dangerous stuff this summer....

Mexican Cabbage Salsa
I bag precut Cabbage Mix (the kind ready for cole slaw, because I'm a little lazy and it was on sale)
2-3 Roma Tomatoes, remove seeds and chop fine
4 Jalapenos, I removed the seeds from 3 and used one with seeds for a little heat
1/2 an onion, chopped very fine
2 garlic cloves (I used minced onion)
Cilantro to taste (I probably used 1/3 of a bunch)
salt and pepper to taste
juice of two limes
Rice or Apple Cider Vinegar, just enough liquid to coat the cabbage or to taste