Fun, Fun

Here are a few things happening over the last week:

On Monday evening, Lily and I had a Mommy-Daughter date to Bluepointe.  We had a blast!  We parked across the street at Phipps Plaza, and Lily thought it was fun to cross the huge intersection and admire the large Dale Chihuly piece in the atrium.  She loved sitting in the big, plush, velvet chair across from me.  She remembered to use her manners too which I greatly appreciated.  We really had a lot of fun just talking about all sorts of things; she is such a fun kid!  She absolutely loved eating her lemongrass shrimp which was sauteed in black pepper, dried pineapple and coriander with chopsticks; she thinks chopsticks make any meal more fun.

 

 After we enjoyed a wonderful meal together, we decided to go back across the street to Phipps for dessert.  Right as we walked outside, it started to sprinkle, so we started walking quickly to our car.  By the time we got to the intersection, it was pouring; we ran as fast as we could to the car.  I haven't laughed like that in a long time, and Lily was cackling too!  We went to River Street Sweets and Lily was very excited to get the "stick lollipop."  This was such a fun evening, and I can't wait for another one!

 Lily and Bama wrote out a few recipes the other day.  Lily dictated to Bama and then colored the picture underneath.  It's a little difficult to read, so here is Lily's cupcake recipe:

1. Get holders out.
2. Put holders in pan.
3. Put ingredients in holders.
4. Cook them up in the oven.
5. Let them rest and get cool.
6. Then the things on them. (I am assuming she means the frosting, sprinkles, picks, etc.).
7. Eat them.

Here is her pancake recipe:
1. Spray the pan.
2. Do the mix.
3. Add the eggs and milk.
4. Stir it up.
5. Pour out of bowl to pan.
6. Get cookie thing out to make Mickey Mouse.
7. Flip it and eat it.




For the record, not all our of meals are mixes, but I don't let either of them handle raw things since both suck their thumbs.  These are just some easy things we make for fun; looks like Lily has the recipes down pat!

Speaking of recipes, both girls helped me with dinner tonight which is always fun.  I realized that by giving the food a fun name, they are much more likely to try something.  We made recipes out of Lily's cookbooks (each one is either princess, mermaid or fairy themed), and they loved it.  They helped a lot with the pineapple cream cheese dip ("Tropical Dip") for our carrots and strawberries.  Then they wanted to watch a cartoon, so I finished up the unicorn calzones (turkey and cheese rolled and baked in a croissant), blueberry biscuits (biscuits with a blueberry, nutmeg, almond extract filling), jello jigglers and mermaid smoothies (orange smoothie poured with a cherry smoothie).  I will have to try to get creative and change food names more often!

After dinner, I gave the girls a bath and got them ready for bed.  As I was cleaning up the kitchen, Lily came in and said "Mommy, Belle is on tv in your room.  Daddy, Mia and me are watching it, and I thought you might want to too.  Will you?"  How could I resist that?  We watched about the last 30 minutes together, and Ryan and I loved every minute of it.  While the movie was on, the girls cuddled up right with us; I love times like this.  During the commercials, we had fun tickling and playing.  At one point, Ryan picked up on a game from yesterday.  He was cutting our grass yesterday morning, and we took some Gatoraide to him.  While standing on the front porch, Lily asked why the light wasn't on; Ryan said it was magic and he could blow it on and off; he counted to three, blew and then the light came.  Lily was amazed!  Of course, she couldn't see my hand just inside the door flipping the switch.  Well, this evening as we were lying in bed, he grabbed our light and fan remote, hid it and did the same thing.  The girls couldn't believe it!  Each commercial break, they would say "1, 2, 3" and then blow as hard they could and sure enough, the lights would come on and off!  It was hilarious to watch!  To top it off, Lily then jumped out and ran to each room trying to blow the other lights on and off; for some reason, it wouldn't work anywhere but in our room.  What a fun way to end the evening.