Rubba-Dub-dub

Destry discovered he could suck on his washcloth and he'd actually get something out of it. So now that's what the washcloths are for. not for bathing, not for scrubbing...for sucking on. One of those things where I kinda cringe a bit but as long as he's happy and doesn't poop in the water I let him do it. Besides, he's just so dang cute!

Ever so sorry

I've been super busy this week working on an exciting little project called Baby Windsor. I'll fill you all in probably the beginning of next week. I have some things to work out still before the big announcement. Stay tuned!!

4th of July

We started the day off with a photoshoot of Destry in his patriotic outfit. We had another stars and striped shirt to wear in case this got dirty but he was super good all day and didn't poop on his clothes! Awwww, what a cutie. I measure the day success rate in direct relation to how many outfits were pooped on.

serious Destry

such a good little model for mommy!

We had a delicious lunch at my dad's house--they're garden is starting to pop with produce and we had the most AMAZING potatoes ever from their garden. They were creamy and such a nice flavor...man. I need some more. I'm totally going to grow potatoes in my garden of the future just so that I can dig them up when they're ripe. It was like a treasure hunt, it was soo fun!! But this whole basket was what we picked out of the garden for our salad and steaks and potatoes lunch. mmmmmm

We topped the day off at a park with our buddies Clint and Jess watching the Stadium of Fire's somewhat disapointing display of firewords. Didn't even know we had the finale until they stopped shooting off and cars started pouring out of the stadium. laaaaaaaame. But Destry still really liked watching the explosions and didn't mind the noise at all. And this was after he woke up from falling asleep for the night. So I'd say he was pretty entertained. I was just glad we had pictures of him awake for this "first". Usually he's snoozing through everything!

Kolt really had fun with Clint lighting fireworks at the park. We had a few little kids watching us too, they were cute and asked if they could do sparklers. So we let them and they were super happy.

Destry LOVES cereal!

We gave Destry some rice cereal the other day for the first time. At first he wasn't so sure but by day two he was super excited when he saw the bowl and spoon. He talks and coos the whole time. He is a bottomless pit, however, and I'm now feeding him formula sometimes too. I just can't keep up with the kid.

Bread Puddin'

K, so I've never been able to partake of this old-time treat and I think it's mostly because it always has yucky raisins or weird dried fruit in it. It kinda carries the same infamy as rice pudding. yeeaaahh. Anywhoo, I had an epiphany today. It went like this:

Said to myself, "Man, I have a half dozen rolls sitting nice and stale on my counter. That kinda bums me out."

A little breeze blew though my window carrying the words, "bread pudding....bread pudding..." (who am I kidding, it was like 100 degrees outside. My window was not open. Maybe it was my A/C that spoke to me.)

Nonetheless! (I love that word. Its just so dang long and its kinda fun to combine three words into one.) I though to myself, "Bread Pudding?? Doesn't that contain yucky raisins or weird dried fruit?" Then I realized that I was the captain of this boat. I'm a rebel. I do what I want, dang it! So I pulled out my trusty Better Homes and Gardens cook book and whipped up a lovely raisin/weird dried fruit-free batch of good ol' bread puddin'. And can I say, I'm a fan.

I also made a sweet caramel sauce to accompany my pudding and man, oh man. Yu-hum!

Now, aren't you glad you read this? I'm freeing the world from the chains that bound raisins/weird dried fruit to bread pudding. I'm a revolutionist!! Be Free and make some bread pudding today!!

my bad

not sure how that happened....but correction: I'm 3790.

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man!!

Oh oh oh How I want to win this contest from PW. A sweet sweet camera that would kick my camera's trash any day of the week. I'm 3775 .