Happy 7th Birthday Olin!!!

We love you, your laughing, your tongue clicking, your stubbornness, your 'hands', your pouching and your missing teeth so much!!!

We had:

• piroshki breakfast
• mac & cheese + tuna fish lunch
• lots of afternoon Lego making
• Fujiyama Dinner
• BR cake (rainbow sherbet + vanilla cake)

Keep a careful eye on this sign. It has been re-purposed.

My Neighbor Totoro (Book 3 - he only the full set for two days  - present from puo puo - before he lost Book 3 so he got it again for a second birthday gift), and a Build Your Own Battle Bot

Legos!

Still loves Fujiyama. Caught the chicken in his mouth this time!

Funny Insta that Danielle made

Bday squad polished off this cake with no problemo!

We celebrated my 41st birthday yesterday and the family treated me quite right. It was such a nice birthday:

• Quaffle breakfast + chai tea latte
• Whole Foods
• Shilshole Bay Marina to check out the crabbing possibilities: turns out people do throw lots of ring nets and cages out there. They catch both Dungeness and Red Rock Crab. When we left, Olin said "Please don't bring me there again unless we are going to catch crab, because I get too excited to go crabbing".....
• Ballard Farmers' Market for lunch
• 2.5 hour nap
• Le Pichet for dinner
• BR cake with Cookies & Cream, and vanilla cake

Ballard Farmers' Market. We went to a Ramen/Taco stand for lunch. 

Tooth cake. "Book of Mom" from Leelee. He worked a long time to pick the photos he wanted to print, and then asked me to print them. haha. The napping photo on the cover cracks me up.

Sign look familiar? I laughed so hard when I saw this. The "mom" covers up "Babz" from two weeks ago. Scotchmallows from See's are always appreciated, and eaten.

I was impressed that Dae brought the little banner from Richland and strung it up.

Le Pichet! Love this place.

The tables are chalkboard so we played HangMan. Cute that they chose happy birthday as a phrase.

This lady passing asked if we wanted her to take a photo for us and she took a few and then positioned us and everything. haha.

Nice night!

Back at home, got treated very nice to a LuLu lunch with Kelly as an early bday celebration.

Other September Miscellanea:

We made this random craft one day. Olin's spelling of Cwofl for quaffle and "mac in chees" is funny. I didn't know he thought it was "in"

He hung here by only arms for 18 seconds. I was impressed!

I was all proud that I'm making the kids make their own lunches (finally).  Come to find out several people's kids at school have been doing it for years, like since the kids were 4 and 5 years old.....

Still doing sourdough and I'm expanding my repertoire. I did this loaf with white flour, whole wheat flour, and rye flour and followed the instructions to a T. I even got a thermometer and measured my water (90 F) and the final dough temp (78 F) and the final bread temp (210 F). However, the final product was less than impressive! The 'crumb' or whatever the inside is called wasn't as holey as I wanted. I wanted lots of nice big holes and it was just normal. Which makes me want to just go back to my regular loaves which are much less regulated and easier. I forgot to take a photo of the crumb.