Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Announcements

Asher can crawl up stairs! He is really proud of himself and claps every time he gets to the top. It makes me nervous, because while he is good on the going up part he hasn't figured out how to go down. Janet, he might be ready for "stair lessons" now!

Asher has two teeth. The front bottom two came in this week. I swear for each tooth there were about 50 fits of crying that went along with it. And almost as many missed naps. Please tell me that he will take a nap again SOMEDAY! Sob.

Asher is FASCINATED with my dad's dog Mickey. The poor dog has been poked in the eyes about 10 times in the last day. Asher just crawls along behind, chasing her all over the house and trying to talk to her. She's a very patient dog.

Asher went on the trampoline for the first time. He loved it.

I've been busy making apple sauce, apple butter, pear sauce, pear butter, plum syrup and grape juice. Pretty good for a girl that didn't know how to can a year ago! It is SO satisfying to eat things that I've "put up". I might have to practice my syrup because it is a little thin. Next time I'll boil it longer. I owe all my new found abilities to this book, the best DI (thrift store) find of the year.

This wonderful book tells you how to freeze, can, pickle, smoke, and cook any food you can think of (including meat). It also has helpful tips on how to make your own cheese out of a pig's head (um... yuck), make butter, and how to preserve eggs ( I didn't even know you could do that). Yep, I'm basically a pioneer woman.

2 comments:

Lady said...

What a great book! You're turning into quite the domestic goddess. :)

oh, p.s. speaking of Asher's teething, I realized that I forgot to send you those links to my friend's blog about sleep regression (because we talked about it):
http://sh1ft.org/blog/?p=1087
http://sh1ft.org/blog/?p=1088

Jenny Bay said...

How exciting! Yeah, James loves to climb up the stairs, but he always tries to go DOWN the stairs head first. We try to put him with his feet first and help him go down on his tummy, but he just turns right around and tries to go head first again! Silly boys. They will learn someday!