After much practice, persistent and patience, Nathan finally got to know how to walk. I’m so proud of him because he has been trying really hard. Sometimes I see him fall down and knock on the head, I feel sad and of course he cries too! But babies are just born with the God’s given determined heart to learn so many new things! He is not a master yet but he could walk from one room to the other. hahha.. from now on or few weeks more, we could enjoy more games in the park!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was the kids carnival at the Springdale Public library to celebrate the end of the summer program. We have been going to the baby lap sit story time program. Nathan really likes it because he gets to join other babies. Most of the time he doesn’t really pay much attention to the rhyme or singing unless he sees props that are interesting like puppets. Yesterday was the last day for the summer, Nathan got a book as a gift! Not bad, even though we only been there twice for the entire summer We’ll definitely go there more often in the Fall since it’s so close to our house and it’s a good activity for us! Anyway, back to the carnival, Nathan got a balloon and had face painting. hahha… a lady bug on his cheek. It was really cute! of course he doesn’t know what is going on. But he sure likes seeing a lot of kids and started walking around at the library. Probably he didn’t even realize that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is so fun!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Em… I think I’m getting tired…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting really tired…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phew… almost fell asleep on the swing! Thanks daddy for the pinch to wake me up.

We decided to buy some pjs for Nathan after seeing Nathan tossed and turned a lot during sleep. He likes the idea too! This one is on sale from Gap and 3 more from my child’s place and of course it’s on sale too! Well, mommy is too cheap to spend full price clothes for Nathan.

I’m still deciding which is my favorite blankie. Tough choice… blue one or the green one?? I think the green one it’s better because it’s not too big but the blue one has the smell of mommy because it’s hers… em.. still a tough choice. I guess mommy will pick one for me. The result: Now the green blankie is officially my favorite blankie! 

I’ve been having fun with my summer project – growing vegetable, this year. At church almost every housewife has been talking about their vegetable garden, so I wouldn’t want to be lefted out. I decided to grow my own vegetable too! Honestly, I’ve not spent a lot of time on it. I just spread my seed on the ground. But praise the Lord that despite of an effortless grower, I still see the vegetables are growing and having the produce. I thought this would be a good way to get organic food without spending much money! I’m glad that I started the project and now I could at least enjoy my little squash. But I think this is for Nathan mostly…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomato plant – not fruiting yet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Squash has been growing very well. I guess this is the easiest plant to grow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eggplant – I had one little eggplant but was eaten by some animals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okra – I think will be producing okra soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long beans given by Yein. Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is potato plant. I’ve already cooked some of the leaves to eat. It was good.. somehow it tasted better when you plant it yourself!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cantaloupe – not sure this will produce any fruit. Still very small but it started out as seed. I remember I spread a lot of seed on the ground, but only this little plant is alive. Don’t know what happens to the others.

Nathan loves cheerios… How did the little cheerio get on his forehead… I’ve no idea! With all the choices on the tray, blueberry, avocado and cheerio, he picked cheerio! I still cannot figure out why.. probably blueberry sometimes can be sour and avocado is tasteless and cheerio is the safest choice!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that I’m bigger, I can finally graduate from the little bath tub to a adult sized bath tub!!! I love it and I can even swim in there. Did you see the fireman ducky that daddy bought to block the water spout so that I wouldn’t bump my head to it? So thoughtful of daddy!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally it’s done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It tastes really good! The little circles taste like cookies!

Lately Ruth’s been buying a lot of fresh blueberries from a local farm. I got kinda tired of eating them straight so tonight I decided to make a blueberry pie.

I looked up a recipe from allrecipe.com and it seems simple and delicious. So this is the pie I wanted to make:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both designs look good.

I have never made a pie before, but I have baked things, cookies, cakes, so I thought, what’s the big deal, I’ll make a beautiful blueberry pie and I’ll take pictures to document it so that I can brag about it.

After digging around in the freezer, I realized that I just have one ready-made pie crust, I need two to make something like the photos above. But at this time I am already too excited to quit, then I decided to make my own crust, it’s just dough, right?

Everything went pretty smoothly, I got one pie crust laying in the pan and got all the filling in. I made the dough and roll it into a 9-inch diameter circle:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then I realized that I cannot get the dough off the board in one piece. I tried and tried, struggled about one hour with it, still cannot roll it into such big piece and get it off the board. I was so frustrated!

So it turns out making a pie is not so easy, at least not for the first time. My blueberry filling’s been in the pan for more then one hour now, my oven is pre-heated to 450 degrees for more than an hour now, should I just make a pie without the top crust?

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade out of them. When you cannot make a large piece of dough, you use small pieces. So I did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I know it’s kinda ugly, more like blueberry and dumplings, but I got my pie covered. I even used a cookie cutter to make sure all the little circles are the same size.

Then I looked again on allrecipe.com, turns out I am not alone:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s just that I don’t have heart or star shaped cookie cutters

 

So it’s gonna take about 50 minutes to get done, I’ll post some pictures when it’s done and see how it turns out.

 

Note to myself for the next time: make sure to store 2 ready-made pie crusts in freezer!