Summer 2009

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Hide and Seek

Dan has gone off to have a solo camping adventure this weekend and the boys and I were left, without the car, to see what sort of trouble we could get into. This morning we started our day in the dark, playing hide and seek in the closets. We moved the boys into the same room and somehow the project is taking us weeks to finish. Ben and Josh loved playing in the empty closet, the empty dresser and later on in the day, the empty drawers. I love the fact that hide and seek at this age is all about the counting, giggling and not much hiding.

All things zucchini

Dan's veggie garden has done quite well this summer. We've enjoyed lettuce, potatoes, cucumbers, a few bell peppers and a lot of zucchini. The tomatoes have yet to ripen... but in the mean time I have been asking everyone I know for inspiration with an abundance of zucchini. Here are a few ideas.

Zucchini bread, I've made chocolate zucchini bread, spiced zucchini bread and recently apple-coconut zucchini bread.

Fritters, both zucchini-feta-herb fritters and zucchini and corn fritters.

Muffins with grated zucchini and carrot.

Stir fry

Pasta bake

Ground beef tomato sauce with zucchini

Sliced zucchini baked w/ pesto and blue cheese

Shredded zucchini pie with potato and onion

Zucchini casserole w/ potato and onion

Quiche

Josh down by the lake

Josh is such a character these days. He's Mr. On-the-Go. Photos do not capture the speed in which he can move. These photos are from down at the lakefront today at lunch. He had just eaten more then his share of Dan's curry.

Playing at Bremner Bay

2 boys, one shirt

Josh, age 13 months
Ben, age 14 months

Wearing the shirt from Auntie Alison

Shopping at its best

Dan and I got a number of smiles as we pushed the boys around the grocery store yesterday. Josh was busy being Mr. Busy 1 year old... while Ben... he decided he'd had enough.... we kept shopping... he had groceries all around him by the time we were done!