So, last month, the short version:
The Frog:
has now eaten and enjoyed, baby rice, squash, zucchini, carrots, peas, red pepper, and avocado.
He is very fond of water bottles, measuring cups, and chapstick. Why do I even bother buying toys?
As of two days ago, he has learned how to roll from back to tummy, though I have yet to be fortunate enough to catch it on tape. He's become such a prolific roller, though, that it interferes with his sleep. I now have to stand with him, holding his cute little bum, until he falls asleep; otherwise he will roll over, happily lay for awhile, babbling to himself, and then decide he actually can't fall asleep in this position and I must come put him back how he was. (And usually his pacifier will be on the floor by this time).
The Frog loves to stand, but he cannot do it by himself (despite what this picture might cause you to infer). Out of desperation from constantly being his crutch, I finally gave in and got him an excersaucer from our local Kid 2 Kid. He seems to enjoy it, and so do I :D The Frog has also learned how to screech and does so frequently. I often must look at his face to determine if it's a happy screech or a sad screech. Here's a little video of some happy screeching in the excersaucer.
The Frog's highlight (and ours) though was his first plane ride (finally the sky mall magazine is good for something) out to Massachusetts to visit the McCarthy family! He loved spending time with Nanny and Gampy and Auntie K. He also got to meet the rest of his relatives at a special Sunday dinner, just for him :) Nanny also made her famous Whoopie Pies- Yum!
Me:
I finally made some pizza dough that has the consistency I wanted! Jay and I like our crust to be very thin, but it's hard to get a dough that will stretch thin enough without breaking. I used this recipe except I used whole wheat flour and added about 1 1/2 T gluten. The trick, I think, is letting it rise overnight in the fridge, and then letting it rest for 2 hours on the counter before stretching it. She suggests forming the dough into separate balls before you let it raise overnight, but I don't have that kind of space in my fridge, so I let the dough raise in one ball in a bowl, and then separated it before the 2 hour room temp resting. I suggest making 4 balls out of it, unless you have a gigantic pizza stone. I cooked ours at 550 F and I found it worked best to put the stone on the very bottom rack and bake for 6 minutes.
While back East, we spent time with family, and catching up with old friends and Jay's favorite places to eat in Nashua. It was SUCH a nice vacation, and I'm excited to do it again in May for Jay's graduation :)
I'm helping out with a service project at BYU Women's Conference this year; the women can do various crafts (while listening to their choice of classes) that will be donated to over 100 charities and I'm helping with the crochet-edged baby blankets. It's been fun cutting fabric, basting and learning how to crochet the edges. I finished my third blanket and third crochet pattern tonight. Hopefully I've got it down well enough to be able to teach other women!
One of my friends crocheted me this so so cute flower hair-pin, and she's motivated me to do a bit more with my new crochet knowledge. Hopefully it will help me with my yarn-using New Year's Resolution :)
I had my best friends over for our monthly themed dinner which will ever after be referred to as "the dine-o-round". The theme I chose was fondue. We discovered the BEST combination: milk chocolate fondue (I used Guittard chocolate chips and whipping cream) with brownie bites. SOOOOOOOO much better than it sounds. Not that it doesn't sound good, but it really doesn't sound as amazing as it actually is. Promise.
Another recent occurrence is the increase in signs of Spring. YAY! Even though we woke up with snow on the ground, it all melted by the end of the day and it became completely sunny and pleasant! I love spring!
And finally, today is my half birthday! Go me :)
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