Mommio: CSA!

We stopped participating in our CSA from Cypress Valley Farms a few months ago because we decided that the drive to pick up our basket was too time consuming every week.  But we've been missing getting all those veggies and when we found out the CSA decided to start delivering out to Marble Falls we were all excited.  We met farmer Ariel at Starbuck's today to get our first basket.  It was really cool to see the kids so excited to get bags full of vegetables!  When we got home Avery practiced her photography skills and took some really beautiful shots of the CSA bounty.  Here's what we got this week:

Mommio: Gabe Jr.

He wanted his hair to be "just like Gabe"...and so it is.  He LOVES it and keeps asking me if it is still there!

Kiki: Book Review

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat

By Chris Riddell

This book is about a girl called Ottoline and she lives in a big city with a small hairy person called Mr. Monroe.  Her mom and dad go on lots of vacations.  She has tons of collections she can't break.  She also likes to write stuff in her notebook.  She likes to figure out stuff.  She also has a bear under her bed.  And that bear uses clothes to keep him warm.  There was a cat that was yellow, called the yellow cat.  The yellow cat likes dogs.  The dogs owners came to the place that the yellow cat was keeping the dog and they took the dogs home.  The yellow cat snuck into Ottoline's house and Ottoline found the yellow cat in her bedroom.  With pie all over her face, because the bear under Ottoline's bed threw pies at her.  I liked the book.  My favorite part was when the yellow cat got pie all over her face.  My favorite person was Ottoline because she is funny.  I think other people should read this book.  I think little girls would like this book.

Mommio: Jones-Palooza!

The Nebraska Jones' are here for the week and we are having a blast!

We'll be back to our regular blogging soon....and school, and chores, and all that other stuff we

do when the cousins aren't here.

Mommio: World Geography Cooking- Italy- Panna Cotta

Last week Gabe and Kiki used our Eat Your Way Around The World cookbook to make an Italian dessert- Panna Cotta (cooked cream).  Here's the super simple recipe:

And here they are cooking together.  Even though it was very easy, they did both complain (a lot) about having to stir it so long and be SOOO patient waiting for it to boil.

And here's the finished dessert:

And it was delicious!

Mommio: Garden Cleaning

Eighteen consecutive days of 100 degree plus weather in early June was just more than our little garden could handle.  All the bad stuff (weeds) is growing like crazy, and all the good stuff is wilting away to nothing.  So we decided to work on the garden this week and get everything good out of there before it dies- harvesting, cleaning it up and making some yummy food.  It was a team effort and we got a lot of it done so far. Here are the kids helping pull up onions.

 Gabe helped clean some of our lettuce so we could pack it up and share it with friends.

 All of the kids helped to harvest the basil plants by picking off the leaves so that we could make pesto.

We harvested two kinds of onions, romaine lettuce, leaf lettuce, swiss chard, romaine, basil, cucumbers and jalepenos.  It filled up our kitchen table and smelled so good all day!

 Before we packed it all away Nana came shopping at our little produce market.

Today Gabe and I worked together to use some of our veggies to make pesto, salsa and jalapeno boats.

We still have a few things thriving in the garden- tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, butternut squash, watermelon and herbs.  Hopefully they will hang in there long enough to produce more good stuff!

Mommio: Happy 11th Birthday Ava!

Mommio: Father's Day 2011

Daddio: Thanks for an Awesome Father's Day!

Thanks to Mommio and the Toes for a great father's day. We went to Krause Springs and swam in the cool spring water of their lake and their pool for many hours. The butterfly garden was beautiful, although I think that was the culprit in the crippling allergies I had yesterday.

Again- thanks to everyone for giving me the greatest father's day yet. And special thanks to Gabe and Marney for doing a miraculous job of cleaning up and scrubbing the entire kitchen Sunday night. All of you are the greatest family I could ever want!

Mason: Blog Of The Day

Please put pepperoni pizza on Peter's plate.
Also put a peach on his plate.
And put peas on his plate.
And put pickles on his plate.
And put pepper on his plate.

Avery: Blog Of The Day

Avery ate an apple

The apple Avery ate was awesome

The awesome apples aren't astounding when they are not there any more.

Connor: Blog Of The Day

Mason marched marvelously.
Matching the movements of his Mii.
Mason must be magnificent or magical.
For each move was monumental and mystical.

Gabe: Blog Of The Day

A rat read a rude radar.

 A red rooster attacked the rude radar 

A rainbow ring roared at the rude radar and the red rooster.

Marney: Blog Of The Day

A horse had a hat

Hoping he heard home

He had some ham

And hacked it up

He had a hose to help 

The hose was harsh 

So the hose did not help

Had the horse heard home

Kiki: Blog Of The Day

Dudley the deer's dinner was dog.

Dudley dropped a duck.

Dudley drove to the doctor,

Dudley's doctor said "Don't die!"

Dudley the deer died.

Daddio: 6/17/11 Blog of the Day

For today's blog of the day, I want you to write a tongue-twister poem.   A Tongue Twister poem is made up of lines/verses that are hard to say when read aloud by using similar consonant sounds in succession (use of alliteration). In other words, the poem ties your tongue into knots.  It doesn't have to rhyme or have a certain rhythm pattern- it just has to use alliteration to be very hard to say.  Then I want you to post your poem and a video yourself trying to say your tongue-twister poem.

Here's some examples of tongue-twister poems:

Betty bought butter

but the butter was bitter,

so Betty bought better butter

to make the bitter butter better.

OR:

A skunk sat on a stump.

The stump thought the skunk stunk.

The skunk thought the stump stunk.

What stunk the skunk or the stump? 

OR the most famous of them all (except Fox in Sox):

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

FuzzyWuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

Connor: Blog Of The Day

The company that made the first home microwave oven was Tappan.  The microwave oven is called this because it creates little radio waves or waves of radiation.  The strength is far less than that of gamma radiation yet more than the radiation produced by a light bulb.  Food absorbs the microwaves and heats up due to heat being radiation.  The food comes out with more heat than before, yet the plate or bowl isn't.  You should stand a certain distance from the microwave oven when it is cooking to prevent radiation of the human body.  If you put a metal item into the microwave oven, like a fork or knife, the microwave oven will break and start leaking radiation and you would have to replace it.  If a microwave oven breaks it would be a bad idea to use it at all, because microwaves are dangerous.

Mason: Blog Of The Day

Microwaves are radio waves with a range of 2.5 gigahertz.  The food absorbed the radio waves and over time it heats up.  The reason you shouldn't put metal in the microwave is because it burns it and makes a small hole in it. The person who invented the microwave is Percy Le Baron, he was an engineer.

Marney: Blog Of The Day

Microwaves heat food from the hot air it makes. A microwave does no harm to your food it just heats it up.  Microwaves were invented in the 1940s.  The person who invented the microwave was called Percy Spencer.  You can not put metal in a microwave because it can melt in to your food and can hurt you.

 This is Percy Spencer and he made up microwaves