Saturday stuff

Not much new here. A pretty quiet weekend for us - finally! Of course, we only have this one and next week, and then we're off to take EJ to camp. The following weekend, we'll be picking her up. And then, we're planning a little Labor Day excursion to Vermont. More on that later. Sophie and I may spend a few extra days in the mountains while EJ's at camp; it will depend on the weather. And we'd like to take a day off to go to a local amusement park before camp starts too, but I'm not sure we're going to squeeze it in!

Today started early. Sophie was up at 6:30. We wanted to go to a local town festival, so we got up and went to a diner for breakfast first. Sophie was a bit fussy - she wouldn't eat any of her pancake, despite the fact that she usually chows down. At the last minute, before we were leaving, she ate an entire sausage link.

We got to the fair, and despite the gloomy gray skies, it didn't rain. We enjoyed looking around the flea market, but didn't find any treasures there. EJ jumped around on a cool bungee attraction. We ate some fried dough, which Sophie agreed was yummy.

Once we got home, Sophie didn't want to take her nap after lunch (she took a little snooze in the car on the way home). I think some new teeth are bothering her - her eye teeth are coming in on the top, and right behind them are the first molars - her gums are all swollen. Poor baby. She finally napped between 3 and 5 and did better at dinner.

Sophie has a few new foods that she's loving...K picked some blackberries around our property, so she popped about 1/2 cup of them with her yogurt and apple for lunch. Her other new treat? Edamame. Loves it. Me too. I've had the pleasure of eating these yummy soybeans with some meals out lately and tried to find them at the grocery store with no luck. Someone at work recommended buying them frozen from Trader Joe's, so I bought a bag this week and we ate them all up. You just boil the frozen pods and then pop out the beans and add a little salt. You can also eat them cold on salad. Delicious! Sophie eats them like they're jelly beans. Guess I'll make another stop at Trader Joe's to pick up a few more bags for the freezer.

And speaking of food, I also made a double batch of Chinese dumplings today to put in the freezer. They're really not hard to make at all once you know how to pleat the dough. EJ helped me and did a great job. We probably made about 100 of them. After freezing them on cookie sheets, I'll bag them in batches of 12 or so. Then, I can cook them up whenever I get the urge - which is quite often. We will DEFINITELY be eating some of these on Friday night with our Chinese takeout while we watch the opening ceremony to the Olympics.