Mama is Emma's Mama: walk

Saturday, September 1, 2012

This week in Photos

Here are a few photos from this past week.

Emma making clay creatures for her Ocean Diorama Art Class

A beautiful leaf discovered on our way home from the park

Goofy photo from an old camera- We are standing in front of a Grampa Ott flower.

Emma working on her bike skills

Walking home from the park.

One of Emma's favorite things to see on our walk home

Horse! This horses name is Cash. We think.

Emma's horse made from clay. His name is Midnight. He was created from a hunk of clay by Emma with the help of Christine from The Smoldering Bowl. It took Emma about 3 hours of steady hard work and concentration to create Midnight. Emma's first time working with clay that requires firing.

Emma's reading is going really well. She is finally convinced that she can indeed read and so she reads, or tries to read, just about anything. At this point she doesn't like to read for very long- it still takes a lot of concentration so her brain gets pretty tired, but she will read an entire Elephant and Piggie book. I love listening to her read them. She reads with such enthusiasm and spun! Totally fun.

That's it for now. I will try to do another post next week or so.

Have a fun weekend!

Monday, February 6, 2012

In the Kitchen

This morning was all about homemade foods.

First up- Homemade Granola Bars.

I used a recipe that I found on pinterest, but you can find the recipe here, at Back to the Cutting Board. In order to make these granola bars, I first made the granola that Emily suggested in her recipe. The recipe for the granola can be found here, at Fake Ginger. The first batch I made, the only seeds/nuts I added were the sunflower seeds. I like the way it turned out, so I made another batch, but without the seeds this time. WOW! It was so incredibly tasty that I am surprised there was any left this morning to make the granola bars.

But there was.

So, we made the granola bars, and I made a third batch of granola as I had yogurt with granola in it for breakfast. Think I may have found my new favorite food...

That is until Emma and I made some tortillas.

Oh. My. Yummy. We used another pinterest find for these. The actual recipe can be found at here.The tortillas got finished up about lunch time. So naturally, Emma and I each had one for lunch. Emma had hers with some hard boiled egg and granola bar, and, yup, I had the same.

An excellent lunch it was.

While working on the tortillas, we were also working on making some pizza dough for our dinner tonight. Instead of making just dough, though, I decided to try out another recipe we found on pinterest. Here is the link to the original recipe. I decided to also try out the pizza bites on the same post.