Mi Amore

Who wouldn't love this little stinker as their Valentine?! Man I love this little baby! He is so much fun right now! Especially because he is in hour 3 of his nap...which has only occurred because he got his 6 month shots today :( Seriously, though, he is rolling all over the place and reaching for just about everything. I can't wait until we can spend some quality time outside! Alas, spring is just around the corner according to Punxsutawney Phil (who apparently only has like a 30% accuracy rate at predicting the coming of Spring!).


Anyfood, for Valentine's Day last year my love took me to a fancy shmancy 6 course chocolate dinner at the Ritz in Georgetown - fabulous! And because the Ritz made a booking error with our room, they upgraded us to the penthouse suite which was bigger than our condo at the time!! We had a view of both the Potomac and M Street. The bathroom floors were heated, there was a HUGE bath tub complete with bubble bath, a kitchen, a living room, and an enormous dining room. Alas, this year we will be enjoying the day of love in Manhattan. Kansas.

At least I get to spend it with my boys!! And I will be making one of them the above toast and egg! How cute is that? And tasty! Our first Valentine's Day as man and wife I made cinnamon sticky buns...maybe I'll make those too!

What are you doing for V Day??

Get in my belly!

Oh nelly, we've started feeding the little man something other than breast milk. I feel like we've been given some grief for waiting until 6 months, but this child has not suffered one bit! So far we have ended up with more rice cereal on the bib than in the belly. Alas, the spoon provides a good distraction as the little man likes to assist. We will attempt oatmeal this evening and see if we can swallow a wee bit more!


And for the big kids in our house, we have the perfect avocado. Which apparently is a great first food also - but Mr. O will need to learn to swallow first. I'm not wasting a perfectly good avocado on a bib...


Isn't that gorgeous? This is a PERFECT non-store-bought avocado off of my auntie's tree. I have repeatedly told the J Man that when we move to Cali (note "when" - hopeful, ever hopeful) I would like to plant the following trees: avocado (2 for cross pollination), lemon tree, lime tree and grapefruit tree. Until then I will be pacified by my auntie's fruit. Whenever we are in Cali I beg and plead for avos off her tree and we were not disappointed!

We have a slight addiction to guac in our household. And what goes better with guac than tacos? So we brought taco night back until the avocados ran out :( I am not a purist when it comes to my guac, and I've never had any complaints on how I make it. So here are the list of ingredients, add to taste!

2 avocados
1-2 cloves garlic
1/2 lemon or whole lime (the juice to prevent the guac from turning brown and adds a tangy flave)
Lawry's season salt
Cumin
splash of Tobasco (I have eliminated this step lately as it can turn it a bit sour)
Pace Thick and Chunky - I know some people like to add fresh tomatoes or pico, but I like the additional flava flav that the Pace adds)
Sour cream (again, I don't add this all the time as it sometimes doesn't need it)
a handful of fresh cilantro
Mission Tortilla strips (I prefer Mission to any other tortilla chip - always have, always will!)

I think we will have tacos once I find some decent avos - a challenge here in the dead of winter!