Lego Build and Read

Babygirl and I had the opportunity to attend a Lego Build and Read Party a few days ago.  Our friend Christine was chosen to host the Lego Build and Read Party through House Party.  Christine opened her house to our playgroup so we could come check out these new toys from Lego.  She was sent the Busy Farm set for the kids to try. The book describes Farmer Ted's day on the farm while showing how to build the animals with the Lego pieces. 

Babygirl had a blast playing with The Busy Farm set. She loves books, but being able to help build the animals took it to a new level for her.  The books say ages 1 1/2 to 4 years on them.  While Babygirl had a blast playing with them the older kids, not so much.  There were a couple of 4s/5s there.  Once they went through the book and made the animals that was it for them.  I'd put these more in the 1 1/2 to 3 age range.

In the end, it was good that the older kids lost interest because there were only four book sets sent with the party kit. Christine, being the wonderful person that she is, had made up some goody bags for the kids.  (She didn't want anyone to be left out, as there were 10 kids invited and only the four books sent.)

Currently there are two other Build and Read sets: Grow Caterpillar Grow and Let's Go Vroom.  I look forward to checking these out with Babygirl.  I've spotted them in my local Target for $12.99, but being the cheap frugal momma I am, I'll be on the lookout for a sale!

Quick Eats

What's a mom to do when faced with a jam packed weekend....(besides throw out the healthy eats post ;) )

Bring out the pouch!

We've got a fun filled weekend ahead of parties and family visits.  Then on Sunday I am hosting my Crochet Guild's monthly meeting.  So I started some baking tonight.  I added oatmeal to the blueberry and bananas to the chocolate chip just to jazz it up a bit.

From pouch to pan in five minutes!  Shhh, I didn't even use a mixing bowl:

These babies were out of the oven within 20 minutes of ripping open the pouches :)

Gotta love those baking pouches!!!


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Still working on my Lacy Cardigan.  Here's the latest picture:

Sorry about the picture, something is going on with my point and shoot camera.  I'm hoping it's just the memory card.  I'll be getting a new one this weekend to test it.  Until then I'm going to have to use my SLR for photos.

 Almost finished sock #1.  As of last night:

Babygirl is teething something fierce this week, so there hasn't been much time for knitting.  Any free time I have I find myself slipping away to get a quick nap.  Hopefully this will be over soon.  Poor kid is miserable :(

Menu Planning

It's hot and sticky here in New York.  I'm so not in the mood to cook!  When it's this hot I try to get dinner made in the morning before it heats up too much.  This week I'm just not into the whole meal planning/cooking thing.  (Can't we just have ice cream for dinner ;) ?)

This is what I've got so far:
Monday: Breaded/fried eggplant with ricotta and sliced garden tomatoes
Tuesday: Burgers (BBQ) and corn from the farmstand
Wednesday: salad: lettuce, tomato, homemade crutons
Thursday: ???
Friday: homemade pizza with veggies
Saturday: ???

I'm off to scour the net Pinterest for some more ideas...

What are you making?  Got any quick and easy recipes to share?

Year of Projects: Sunday Update #5

I've been working on my lacy cardigan and a pair of socks.  Thanks to knit night this week and Babygirl's teething letting up I've been getting some knitting done.   Here's the cardigan:

  Moving right along on the socks:

Going to continue working these two projects for the near future and add some hexipuffs.  Looking back over my list I saw that I listed 10 a month...haven't done any yet.  Oops!

My List:

UFOs:
1. Hubby's blanket (just needs to be sewn together)
2. Kool Wool Sweater
3. Rainbow shawl
4. L's blanket

Craft Fair:
Make 30 items

Christmas:
1. Babygirl:
2. Cousin J: hat?
3. Cousin Crash: car hat
4. L:
5. M:
6. Gma:

New Projects:
1. Irish Sweater:
2. Socks that Rock Socks (in progress)
3. Babygirl Sweater 1 Completed 7/28/12
4. Babygirl Sweater 2
5. 120 Hexipuffs (10 a month)
6. socks
7. sweater: Lacy Cardigan (in progress)
8. colorwork
9. shawl
10. Solar Flare (in progress)
11. my stocking 

July Update

I thought it would be nice to record some of Babygirl's milestones in a post once a month.

Here's what July looked like:

new words: yarn, hot dog, hamburger, oatmeal, pool,
new signs: bird, bath, please

favorite books: Mama Loves Me, ABC book

favorite toys/activities: WALKING!, going in the pool,  reading books, play with the gumball machine, puzzles and the shape sorter

This month's highlights:  *first trip to the aquarium
                                     *first curse (dumba$$).  Time to really watch what we say :)
                                     *walking all over the place :)

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Since finishing  Babygirl's sweater, I've been working on my lacy cardigan and a pair of socks. Here's the cardigan:

 The socks are my almost mindless knitting project.  I'm at the heel so there's a little bit of thinking involved, but definitely not as much as the lacy cardigan.  With my lack of sleep (teething again!!) this week I'd much rather screw up the socks than the sweater :) And the socks:

They've grown a bit since this picture and have been separated so I can work on them one at a time, but you get the general idea.  The yarn is Socks that Rock and I am loving it!

I'd like to wear the sweater to Rhinebeck in October so this will be my general focus for now.