Wyatt's First Birthday

Wyatt's first birthday was just recenly.  N it was amazing.  He has turned into such a little person!  It's great.  Did I meantion he weighs almost 26 lbs.  N while my back is killing me I'm just so proud of how healthy and wonderful and big he is.  :)  I just realized that the picture of him above shows him looking pretty serious....I assure you he was smiling and laughing the at his party.  hehe....I'm such a spaz.

Hominy

Since you probably don't know what it means, 'hominy' in Korean for grandma.  Please note that I more than likely spelled it wrong.  When I first began dating my now hubby, I told him I was scared to meet his mum, now Jr.'s hominy.

I think that any sane gal would agree that often the mother-in-law is a fearful and horrible beastly thing.  Well, I was wrong.  Not mine.  My mother in law treats me just like her daughter.  She is kind and thoughtful and helpful and had a lovely heart.  She always speaks kindly and affectionately of her children, me included. 

She is very sick.  So if you are reading please pray for her.  We love her dearly.

Cookin Up A Storm

So before I was married and was living the single ready to mingle lifestyle food was not really something I thought about.  On more than one occasion I would eat whatever random item was in my fridge or cabinet... a piece of pita, a spoonful of peanut butter, some random frozen veggies, a box of mac and cheese etc...  Back then it was no big deal and meals were probably the least important aspect of my life.  Thank goodness for the occasional date to give me a well rounded and balanced meal on occasion (with a glass of wine of course).  

Now, however, meals are the one most important aspect of the day and I've found that my life now pretty much revolves around food.  Breastfeeding obviously, but also all the other foods.  All of the sudden, when I got married and had a kid it's like "oh my God, I've got to feed my family well balanced and gourmet meals".  OK, I don't always get it right but we are trying.  For example, the other day I cooked up a delicious Korean dish but added too much pepper.   Boooo!  I hate it when I go through all that trouble and it doesn't turn out as planned.  But alas, I've got about a billion more meals left to cook and so there is definitely time to improve.   Somethings turn out right though...

Berry crisp with blueberries, raspberries and a delicious crunchy buttery topping.  Yum Yum Yum.  I served it with Haagen Dazs creamy velvety vanilla ice cream.  Do I need to say Yum Yum Yum again?  BTW, this only takes 5 mins of prep work and about 40 mins to cook up.  OMG, we have a winner.

I live in the south, so you'd think I had a background in some southern cooking.  Not so.  My mum is from the north, so her version of veggies never included ham hocks or bacon. But I'm southern and proud of it, damn it.  So for the first time ever!  I cooked up some collards.  Did um right with some bacon, but I did drain out the fat in an attempt to be slightly :)  healthy.  They turned out ridiculous.  Good, I mean.  Bacon and butter make everything like 1000 times better.  Right?

P.S.  Sorry for the crappy pic quality.  We actually do have a good camera, but I'm just too spaztic to find it when I'm in the middle of daily life.  Will this get better?  I hope.

Love, Edamummy

I Had To

If you are an alcoholic, you try and stay away from bars.  And if you are a shop-o-holic you should stay away from stores.  Well, I didn't.  I had to get these.  At least they were at a second hand shop, so they were probably half what I'd pay for them new.  Just doing my part to save the planet---shopping green baby.

P.S.  The Vera Bradley diaper bag in the corner---also a green shopper find!  The best!

Where's Waldo...I Mean Jr.

Jr. has gotten so big.  He's now got three teeth and is eating everything in sight.  He loves yogurt and Korean food...go figure.  And give that boy some rice and he just starts grinning really big and waving both his hands around all excited and crazy.  The first time we gave him hummus at a local Greek restaurant we love was hilarious. Each time he got a bite of it he tilted his head back, closed his eyes and said hmmmm while he pushed it around in his mouth.  I think he liked the texture as well as the flavor.   I think we may have a foodie on our hands.  

Jr. is also crawling everywhere and can pull himself into standing position.  He's discovered how to open drawers and he prefers any gadget over "kids" toys any day.  He will surely be walking soon.  Thanks goodness he still naps extremely well during the day cause when he's awake there is no more relaxing.

Pimpin The Passy

Like the rest of the members of our family Jr. likes to do things backwards too.

Why Don't You Blog??

Ok, I know.   I've not been on here in FOREVER.  No real reason why, but when I set up this blog I decided I was doing it because I could say/post whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.  And the past couple months I haven't wanted--obviously, from the lack of posts.  No reason-no crisis in the fam, no problems with the baby, no bad intraweb connection.  It's so easy to get caught up and feel the need to blog or maybe the urge to get more followers, because hey, it is cool when people find your normal life interesting isn't it?  But, unlike many in the blogger world, I assume, I've no real ambition to have people/companies send me cool stuff so I can pimp them out and I've no real ambitions to become a celebrity, and I've no real ambitions to try and get intraweb friends nor any desire to blog as a job.  I won't lie however, I do love it when nice people read my boring banter.  So yeah, for a while I just didn't feel like blogging, just felt like living.  And for some reason today I decided to blog.  Hello to anyone out there hope you're enjoying your living too!

Love Edamummy

P.S.  Intraweb is a real word isn't it?

Super Cute-And Not Just Cause I'm His Mum

Swing Me!

Jr's daddy is so handy.  The other day he built Jr. a swing in our nook so we can all have fun spending time in the outdoors.  Jr. loves it, and I do too!

First Boating