Mike's birthday

I meant to post this a while ago. I got Mike an apron for his birthday because he is always wearing the one Jennifer made me, which is a rather feminine pattern. We've come to enjoy a cooking show called chopped, where the contestants are given a basket of mystery ingredients each round and they have a certain amount of time to make an appetizer, entre and dessert. The winner is called the 'Chopped Champion' and Mike has started seeing what ingredients we have here and trying to incorporate them for a meal and therefore, he calls himself chopped champion. So for his first meal he decided to make the 'man-cake'. It is in the same family as the 'mountain man sandwich'.

Three and a half months...

Evelyn rolled over for the first time the other day, but I was at work and missed it. So this morning I thought I'd try to capture it on camera and she rolled over before I could even get it! So this is take two.

Unhappy Accident

The bottle of face wash with tea tree oil says in all caps "AVOID CONTACT WITH EYES" (as most soaps do).  But this one you really should go to great lengths to keep away from your eyes.  Trust me.

I inadvertently splashed some into my eye in the shower and nearly collapsed in the tub clutching my eye it was so painful!  I immediately tried to blink in some clean water to wash it out, but all the muscles in my face were working against me trying to keep me from opening that eye.  I turned off the water, groped blindly for my towel, and cried while little daggers seemed to be working my eye from all angles.  A few hours later I'm sitting here trying to do my homework with a red, swollen eye, feeling sorry for myself, I'll admit.

So my advice is that if you must use tea tree oil, wear goggles. 

And so it begins..

Spring semester is already racing down the track!  Will I have enough hours in the day for all of this week's homework?  Unclear.










And finally we got some snow for skiing!  I used to lay out my wet clothes on the fireplace or radiator.  Now I have neither.  I guess I'll have to live with the winter debris once in a while.

Evelyn 3 months

I finally got a video of Evelyn cooing and smiling away. She's growing so fast!