Eating our Greek leftovers

Alan, Gaoder, and we went to a nice Greek restaurant last night. Today we are eating our leftovers and Cecilia is far more interested in her salad than the meat and bread!

Milk mustache!

Grant has a little milk mustache here.

Tummy time!

Grant has been practicing tummy time and can hold up his head pretty
well now. It appears to require quite a bit of concentration, however.

Grant and the Mirror

Duplos!

Cecilia and I made towers and houses. We need to make it down to the Lego store to get some more.

Olive Garden

We all went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight. Cecilia loved it and ate: bread, soup, pizza, grapes, milk, angel hair, and grapes.

Bath Time

Here are a bunch of videos of Grant in the bath.  Bath time is one of his favorite times of the day.

Cecilia's Creepy Tongue Trick

Getting her started early

The cake is all done and decorated now!

And now she's eating the batter

Cake!

Cecilia and mommy decided to bake a cake

Special Bandaid

Cecilia stubbed her toe and ripped a thick layer of skin off the end of her big toe. She was complaining about it and limping (and I was concerned about infection) so I put some bandages on before bed. It was her "special Bandaid" and helped her feel better.

Short Ribs

I saw these gorgeous, USDA prime, boneless beef short ribs at Costco, and well... I was hungry, so I impulse bought them. I wasn't exactly sure what to do, but read online that braising would work. 

And Gaoder left us her crock pot, so we invited Alan, Gaoder, Johnny, Evelyn, and Shayla over for dinner at 6.

We started prepping dinner about noon, but the kids were being grumpy, so we didn't really get cooking until after 3. It wasn't until 4:20 that I realized a crock pot would take HOURS to cook the beef, so we took out the stone part, shoved it in the oven, and cranked it up to 400 degrees. By about 6:30, it looked edible, and it turned out to be quite tasty! I'd say it was more of a stew.

The recipe was onions, carrots, celery, mushrooms, 3 lbs. short ribs, garlic, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary, beef broth, fresh tomatoes from their garden, dijon mustard, and a bottle and a half of Guinness.

Alan and Gaoder brought rice and apple pie, and the Marley's brought delicious cheesy potatoes.

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Munching In-N-Out in the back of the car

While we wait for my glasses to be done, Cecilia is munching on In-N-Out.