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Things I learned this Weekend
I know it's been a while, but hey a long post : )
My baby boy is growing up. He'll be 3 end of February.
Sorry Groblek, didn't mean to cut off your head.
I started noticing this Friday.
At the bus stop another bus waiter was impressed with his articulation and the way I didn't speak down to him, and it made me think that I suspect that in the past I have considered my vocabulary and tried to use one that I thought he could follow, and I haven't been doing that, and he's usually able to understand if he wants to.
We got home, and he'd talked about wanting to play, so I dropped him off in the living room with his train table and favorite toys, and went to take care of some things. I came back after about 10 minutes, and he'd taken a 12-14 (it's the engine of a train puzzle he's earning the whole puzzle's 48 pieces, but I think it's bigger than the tender, or caboose, the passenger car looks about the same size) large piece jigsaw puzzle off the shelf opened the box, and almost completed the puzzle.
First, it was only a short while ago when leaving him alone in the living room would not have been a thing, honestly more because he wouldn't put up with it than anything else! So, nice to know he's okay playing by himself!!
But really I was impressed with the puzzle. He still asks for help if I'm there, but he can do it, and that's exciting.
Saturday we went to a buddy of his birthday and in a group of mostly older kids he had a blast.
Then Sunday I took him outside for some post nap running around. It was close to evening because his nap started late, but he wanted to drive his car (Flintstones stile) to the park. I love that we have parks in walking distance, but when I say that I mean my walking distance, and he picked the second closest park to home (0.4 miles per Google) I figured that he'd make it a block or two and decide he wanted to be carried and we'd turn around, which would get him some good exercise, and I could pull him in the car.
Not a bit of it. He did switch to walking rather than driving a block and a half in, but he got all the way there. When we got to where we could see the park he took off running, and would have been running around at the park for a good deal longer except that with the late start I limited him to a little over 10 min. He even made a block on the way home before I started towing him. This means we can start working on walking as part of the commute! I'm excited about this, and so far he sounds excited about it, but we're not starting until this afternoon. The morning's too rushed until we have a feel for speed of walking involved.
Bodies are weird
I've been working on doing a little more exercise, and have been tentatively pleased which is to say I seem to have more energy, and my speed seems to be getting better on my lunch time 2k with Zombies, Run!.
However, this does not seem to be having any kind of shrinking effect on my belly. Not my actual goal, but I thought it might happen. I was wearing a shirt that I wear all the time Sunday, and it was significantly more snug than I expected. Ah well today's shirt is doing fine.
Almond butter amazing and easy
In case you're wondering this discovery was made Sunday afternoon well after the shirt discovery.
I was get set up to pre-make the weeks lunches, and discovered we were almost out of peanut butter. Back when peanuts were expected to go up in price Groblek stocked up, and even though that was years ago, and I'm aware that we've run through that supply I still expect there to be an unlimited supply in the garage. In looking to see if there was a jar I'd missed I noticed a large quantity of raw almonds (Groblek's family grows for Blue Diamond, so almonds are frequently in supply at home). I suggested almond butter and Groblek looked it up. Instructions are: put almonds in the food processor and process for 20-30 min (faster if almonds are roasted). So I threw a bunch of almonds in the oven, and then in the food processor. (8 cups was a little much for our processor, but after a break to cool down it worked fine.) This produced one large and one small mason jar full of almond butter.
It is sooooo tasty! Sandwiches are better too.
My baby boy is growing up. He'll be 3 end of February.
Sorry Groblek, didn't mean to cut off your head.
I started noticing this Friday.
At the bus stop another bus waiter was impressed with his articulation and the way I didn't speak down to him, and it made me think that I suspect that in the past I have considered my vocabulary and tried to use one that I thought he could follow, and I haven't been doing that, and he's usually able to understand if he wants to.
We got home, and he'd talked about wanting to play, so I dropped him off in the living room with his train table and favorite toys, and went to take care of some things. I came back after about 10 minutes, and he'd taken a 12-14 (it's the engine of a train puzzle he's earning the whole puzzle's 48 pieces, but I think it's bigger than the tender, or caboose, the passenger car looks about the same size) large piece jigsaw puzzle off the shelf opened the box, and almost completed the puzzle.
First, it was only a short while ago when leaving him alone in the living room would not have been a thing, honestly more because he wouldn't put up with it than anything else! So, nice to know he's okay playing by himself!!
But really I was impressed with the puzzle. He still asks for help if I'm there, but he can do it, and that's exciting.
Saturday we went to a buddy of his birthday and in a group of mostly older kids he had a blast.
Then Sunday I took him outside for some post nap running around. It was close to evening because his nap started late, but he wanted to drive his car (Flintstones stile) to the park. I love that we have parks in walking distance, but when I say that I mean my walking distance, and he picked the second closest park to home (0.4 miles per Google) I figured that he'd make it a block or two and decide he wanted to be carried and we'd turn around, which would get him some good exercise, and I could pull him in the car.
Not a bit of it. He did switch to walking rather than driving a block and a half in, but he got all the way there. When we got to where we could see the park he took off running, and would have been running around at the park for a good deal longer except that with the late start I limited him to a little over 10 min. He even made a block on the way home before I started towing him. This means we can start working on walking as part of the commute! I'm excited about this, and so far he sounds excited about it, but we're not starting until this afternoon. The morning's too rushed until we have a feel for speed of walking involved.
Bodies are weird
I've been working on doing a little more exercise, and have been tentatively pleased which is to say I seem to have more energy, and my speed seems to be getting better on my lunch time 2k with Zombies, Run!.
However, this does not seem to be having any kind of shrinking effect on my belly. Not my actual goal, but I thought it might happen. I was wearing a shirt that I wear all the time Sunday, and it was significantly more snug than I expected. Ah well today's shirt is doing fine.
Almond butter amazing and easy
In case you're wondering this discovery was made Sunday afternoon well after the shirt discovery.
I was get set up to pre-make the weeks lunches, and discovered we were almost out of peanut butter. Back when peanuts were expected to go up in price Groblek stocked up, and even though that was years ago, and I'm aware that we've run through that supply I still expect there to be an unlimited supply in the garage. In looking to see if there was a jar I'd missed I noticed a large quantity of raw almonds (Groblek's family grows for Blue Diamond, so almonds are frequently in supply at home). I suggested almond butter and Groblek looked it up. Instructions are: put almonds in the food processor and process for 20-30 min (faster if almonds are roasted). So I threw a bunch of almonds in the oven, and then in the food processor. (8 cups was a little much for our processor, but after a break to cool down it worked fine.) This produced one large and one small mason jar full of almond butter.
It is sooooo tasty! Sandwiches are better too.