A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Ok every year we make homemade ice cream for July 4th. In recent years we have been getting creative with our ice creams. However the current kick seems to be turning towards sorbet. 
Sorbet is a GREAT way to use fresh fruit, and preserve it for eating all summer long, and we are just loving it.
I sent Kyle to the store on his way home from work one evening to pick up some more milk, and he came home with cherries too.
I have never had a child do this before. I know of other people that have children that have done this, but this is a first for me.
I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner tonight, and heard someone open the toilet lid. I KNEW that it was Chloe because all of the potty trained kids were out in the living room reading books. So I went to go get Chloe out of the bathroom and I saw……
She was just having the time of her life sitting in the toilet bowl. Tyra happened to come down the hall while I was taking pictures of my silly little princess, and she saw Chloe and ran out to the living room to inform the others that “Chloe’s taking a bath in the toilet!”
Sigh. I had JUST put a fresh diaper and her pjs on her too.
Chloe is actually walking! Sunday evening, Kyle and I sat on the floor with our legs making a diamond and we had Chloe practice walking from the one to the other. But this morning she walked all the way down the hall (without holding onto the wall) to come to me! And throughout the rest of the day she has been walking all over the place. Sometimes she falls, and when she does she decides that she’s down so therefore she might as well crawl. But when she’s up she’s been walking!
Mmmm. Yummy, beautifully golden goodness, APRICOTS! I have not had the opportunity to pick and can apricots in several years now. We used to get them from Kyle’s Uncle Denis, but his tree was really old and died a few years ago. Kyle’s mom has an apricot tree in her yard but every year she complains that a late frost killed all of the blossoms. This year however, she called us up on a Sunday afternoon and said “There are apricots on the tree and they are ready!” So we packed up the kids and packed up what we were planning on having for dinner (we weren’t going to get back in time to eat it, and it had been cooking in the crockpot all day so I wasn’t going to just put it in the fridge for ‘later’) and we hopped in the MegaVan and went to go get apricots.
The tree was loaded with apricots, although a whole bunch of them weren’t quite ready. So Kyle and I picked the ones that looked like they wouldn’t last until the next Saturday, which was the next time we were able to go back out to pick them. We wanted to leave some lower apricots for Karen since she could reach those ones, and all of the most ripe apricots were in the top of the tree, where the sun can kiss them, so I climbed up there to get them:
Yes that is me in my church dress climbing an apricot tree. 🙂
Then we went back the next weekend to finish havesting the apricots that we had left, and so for the past two weeks I have been going crazy in the kitchen with apricots!
Apricot pancakes, apricot muffins, apricot jam, apricot syrup (for pancakes and waffles), apricot ice cream, apricot sorbet, apricot upside-down cake, apricot cheesecake, & apricot pineapple smoothies.
I plan to post recipes of the apricot recipes that I REALLY like, on our recipe blog. I’ve already posted the recipe that I came up with for apricot pancakes because they turned out REALLY good. So be sure to check there for ideas of what to do with apricots, if you ever have a whole bunch and don’t know what to do with them. 😉
I think most of our kids have gone straight from crawling, to climbing. You would think that they would walk first, and that would be your hint that climbing is around the corner, but most of our kids seem to have had that backwards.
This afternoon, I was in my room working on a project on my computer, when I heard Chloe start crying like she was freaked out, followed by Tyra running down the hall to tell me that Chloe was ON the table. Tyra did not say which table, so as I went out to go get Chloe OFF of the table, I was wondering HOW IN THE WORLD she got on the dining table. She was on the coffee table, not the dining table. 🙂 But when I saw her, she was standing there on the end of the table, holding onto the arm chair for support, and she was just crying like she was scared. I *thought* about going to get my camera, but I didn’t want to be mean and make her stand there and wait for me to take pictures. 😉
LATER I heard her crying like she was freaked out again. So I went to go get her thinking “Oh boy. Here we go again.” This time she was sitting on the other end of the table, and I decided, that since she had climbed up there a second time in the same day, despite her being freaked out, that I would get the camera! And what do you know? She stopped crying when she saw that I wasn’t freaking out.
