one of the things we inherited from chris when he left town, is a small jar of red curry paste. motivated by its rather soon expiration date, i decided to make curry for the first time ever. at least one of us eats curry about once a week at restaurants, so needless to say we like it.
went to the store, bought a few vegetables, put everything in the pot and now we're waiting for the rice to be ready.
mmmm! i think it's got potential.
Ella was playing with her purple elephant, while i tidied up and did things around the house. getting ready to the Sharonim invasion this week.
later on i gave her a cooking lesson, taught her how to make safta Dalia's brownies. it was a good opportunity to talk about fractions (1+2/3 cups is equal to 5/3 cups!) and counting (one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs!).
sorry for not updating in a while. Sandy was visiting for a week, which means that ben and i both got to go to work for full days and actually get stuff done!
thank you so much for coming!!!
i spent the days working, which means that after Ella goes to bed i don't have to feel bad about not working from home. i spent the evenings this past week trying to finish reading Harry Potter #6, so that i remember what it's about when we go to the movie.
i didn't finish the book, but we did go to the movie last night - i had a great time! it seems like we've been going to the movies more now after Ella was born than before. thanks grandmas!!!
i liked the movie a lot, even though they changed stuff relative to the book. some of the editing was good, some necessary to just keep the movie shorter than say a couple of weeks. some was unexpected: they underplayed the role of the half-blood prince though. that was weird, given that that's the name of the movie...
also, it seems like hermione and ron took acting classes during the summer between their 5th and 6th year ;)
This is Ella, sleeping in till 10AM the morning after the busy weekend in AA.
unfortunately, she only took one short nap later that day.
if one of us was offered a faculty job at the university of michigan, we would take it no questions asked. not that UofM is the best university in the universe, it's just that we love Ann Arbor so much. Ben spent more years there than he would like to count. i spent two summers and a winter semester break there, and fell in love with the place... actually, i was a bit spoiled having AA as the first place i got to spend significant amount of time in in the US. it's not like any other "suburb" i've been to since.
to complete the list of places we wanted to go and things we wanted to do, we would have had to either move back to AA or make our visit 2-weeks long :D but we did our best.
we had a rough time pacing ourselves, foodwise: beer+dinner at ABC, breakfast at bigboy, lunch at Haifa Falafel, beers on the patio at good time charlies, frozen yogurt, Buffalo wild wings, cinnabons... we were so full that we didn't get to go to big10 and tim horton.
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| at Arbor Brewing Company (ABC). Megan and Kevin making Ella smile :) |
this is what we do to get Ella used to being on her tummy.
she still hates being put on her tummy, and if she's there she would usually just bury her face in the blanket and scream. this way, she has something fun to look at (her dad). hopefully she'll get used to the idea in time, or she'll be flying before she can crawl...
we just got a present from safta Dalia, that we hope will make tummy time more fun as well. we'll keep you updated about how well it works!
