Journaling my Journey

As many of you know, Jed and I are both foodies. Jed mans the grill (Blue Eyes BBQ if you haven't tried it you should! Like his page on Facebook!) and I stay in the kitchen. Recently, Keller has really taken an interest in helping me cook. Anytime I am in the kitchen he wants to sit on the counter or help still or crumble something up. A couple weeks ago we had a friend who had shoulder surgery, so I thought a homemade lasagne would be nice to feed her family of 6 the night she got home from the hospital. Keller of course insisted on helping. He loved stirring the meat sauce. However, his favorite part of building the lasagne. He helped me layer by layer. We laid out the noodles, then he scooped in the cheese mixture all by himself. After I spread it out, he added the sauce and noodles. This kid literally put an entire lasagne pan together almost all by himself! I was so proud of him. My little chef!  I also experimented with cake balls this summer. I experimented. I ...

I thought a fun activity for Keller to do this summer would be to tye dye a tshirt. At first I was going to do the dip dye, but while at Hobby Lobby I saw they had the kind that you could spray. Stupidly, I thought that would be much better and it would make much less of a mess. Wrong. Anytime you are working with a three year old and any kind of paint/dye you are going to have a mess. Keller didn't really get that you had to squirt short quick bursts of colors, so he would push the nozzle down r...e...a...l...s...l...o...w...so that paint would just drip in huge puddles.  I ended up giving him a squirt bottle of water to make the colors run and bleed a little bit.  His shirt turned out okay but his hands were turquoise for days! We ruined his shirt, my pants and the outdoor furniture! I don't think dying anything is in our near future!  Keller loves the sun roof on my new car. He thinks it's such fun to stand outside the top. Who doesn't right? ...

Keller insisted on trying my sour Skittles one night. Watch his reaction!