best french toast ever.

This morning I made french toast with challah bread.

It was sooo yummy. I don't think I will ever bother making french toast with regular bread again. I saw this challah bread with cinnamon and raisins in the New Seasons bakery when I was getting groceries yesterday and decided it needed to be my breakfast. I cut the slices pretty thick, and made the batter with eggs, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla. Yum.

This used to be a craft blog with a bit about my kids. Now its turned into a kid blog with the occasional crafty post.

Oh well. This is the only crafty thing I've done for a while, so I'll post it. It's a shrug... that I love, but I don't like the way it fits. It ends right at the armpits, and I was envisioning it having some boob coverage. I'm contemplating ripping some of it out and trying to add a little to the sides... but that might not work very well, so I think maybe I'll just try to learn to love it anyway. Or maybe rip the entire thing out (SAD.) and try again, and see if I can make it a little bigger. The pattern is for one size.

I LOVE the yarn though, and the fancy little pattern, it kind of looks like seashells or something. It's handpainted Dream in Color yarn in Black Parade. I made this shrug and you can see from the picture it looks like it should come around a bit more on the sides. Lies.

Anyway here it is. I couldn't get a good picture of it on, because Liam got tired of my photoshoot.

rollin'

Liam is already a roller! Yes, he's fabulous.
He did it once at 3 weeks old, not on purpose but totally with his own baby-power.
And then last Wednesday, at exactly 7 weeks old he did it on PURPOSE! And he's done it again 3 times since then, once a few days ago and twice in a row tonight. He's magical!
He's also found his hands and can get his fists into his mouth now. Amazing baby.

Ignore my crazy-mommy narration...


He's gotten much more accurate since this video was taken.

Need some dinner ideas??

Check out this blog! One of Jason's friends, Marissa, started it pretty recently and we have been loving her recipes!!

The point of the blog is to show how it's easy to eat healthy and organic without spending a ridiculous amount of money. I love it because we are total food snobs. I love love love New Seasons and even when I was on food stamps, I refused to eat cheap gross food. But I am trying to spend a little less on groceries every month, and I love her blog because it gives us awesome dinner ideas that are relatively inexpensive, but still healthy and made from good stuff.

So far we've tried the squash and mole tacos (AMAZING! and don't skip the cotija!), the pork loin with cherry wine sauce, the albondigas soup, and tonight Ben and I made the crepes with blueberries (except we substituted raspberries because I had some in the freezer). So yummy!

Her blog has inspired me to try to plan our meals a little more in advance, too. We usually decide what we want for dinner a few hours ahead of time, head to the store and get what we want to make, and cook it. This requires going to the store basically every day. And it gets expensive.

It worked fine for us until recently, but lately I've decided it takes way too much time to make 6 or 7 grocery trips with a newborn and Ben and oh yeah the whole law school thing. So this week I went shopping on Sunday, and other than picking up some milk yesterday when we ran out I haven't been back to the store (for food, anyway). Amazing!! Last night I made tuna casserole from THINGS tHAT WERE ALREADY AT MY HOUSE! And I hadn't even planned it. I'm so proud. ha. Oh and last weekend we ate leftovers. Twice. Usually we are horrible about eating leftovers, we always mean to but once you've eaten something, its hard to be in the mood for it again for a while. Or at least it is for me. Also, I've been trying to force myself to get things at Fred Meyer when I can, except usually not meat. I have bought their organic chicken, but other than that I go to New Seasons for the meat.

Tomorrow is chicken and green chile enchiladas, and I'm going to try this again next week. I'm already thinking I need to try the butternut squash mac n cheese. and the chilaquiles.

Party Elves

I made these little elf dollies for Amelia for her first birthday, which was yesterday! I cannot believe she is already ONE!
I have never tried embroidering anything before. It was fun... but I'd rather knit. I saw this pattern from all sorts a few months ago and thought it was ridiculously cute. I think it's supposed to be for a pillow or wall hanging or something, but I thought it would be way more fun if I cut the elves out and turned them into fluffy little dolls. And of course I had to give the girl elf earrings, because Amelia loves sparkly pretty things. And I think they look like they are all dressed up for a birthday party with their little rainbow outfits!

The dolls:


The birthday girl: