10/19/14: 18 weeks pregnant
Quick pregnancy update: Still waiting to feel 100%, had some good days offset by bad days this week. I'm pretty sick of feeling sick! Heard baby's heartbeat and had a good check-up this week. I've felt the baby kick a few times, but it's been different (less frequent) than in past pregnancies where I had a definite feeling followed by increased feelings of movement over the subsequent days. Anatomy ultrasound scheduled for early November.
An Apple Pie Day
Thanks to a visit to the Jefferson Parish Library Book Sale and a gift box from my mom, we did a lot of fall-themed reading this week. The biggest hits were: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (with sound effects), Ladybug Girl and the Dress-up Dilemma, and the modern Amelia Bedelia tale, Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie.
So we decided to bake an apple pie. Jack and I made a trip to Whole Foods on Friday and got our needed ingredients, i.e. lots of apples.
For the first weekend in a while, we had NOTHING planned all morning on Saturday, so it was the perfect day for a serious baking project. We had the doors open and lovely 75 degree fall weather flowing through the house.
I have two equally interested helpers, so we have long since instituted a rule of alternating turns on the step stool. Jack chopped up butter to chill. Cora dumped in dry ingredients. Repeat with occasional arguing.
One step not written into the recipe but which I felt the need to add: "Make husband take children outside occasionally to play during baking process."
We had 11 apples to prep. Look how big kid my helpers were!
I decided the apples were a good opportunity to explain odd vs. even and to practice counting. I won't say they got the concept, but they were a rapt audience. We enlisted Daddy to peel the apples bc that's the kind of job for a Daddy.
I thought our chickens were going to have a ton of apple peels to eat. I was wrong. Jack and Cora (okay, plus Mommy) ate every single Gala Apple peel - delicious! Talk about a nutrient rich snack!
It never fails to amaze me how long projects like this can last! Finish the dough and let it chill for 30 minutes...wait at least 30 minutes for apples to cool...after baking, let pie cool for 3 hours before slicing. Definitely a project to start in the morning!
Once the pie was baked, we decided on an ambitious afternoon plan of taking the streetcar down to the Blues & BBQ Festival. What an adventure for Jack and Cora. The streetcar was PACKED both there and back but the windows were open, so there was a nice breeze, and it was a great cultural experience intermingling with all types of people and getting to ride downtown amidst the big buildings and city sights.
Finally home and bathed, the kids got to try their apple pie. We all thought it was good though Cora ended up not eating hers. But that could have been a fluke. We'll try it again on her tonight.
All in all a really nice day!
Quick pregnancy update: Still waiting to feel 100%, had some good days offset by bad days this week. I'm pretty sick of feeling sick! Heard baby's heartbeat and had a good check-up this week. I've felt the baby kick a few times, but it's been different (less frequent) than in past pregnancies where I had a definite feeling followed by increased feelings of movement over the subsequent days. Anatomy ultrasound scheduled for early November.
An Apple Pie Day
Thanks to a visit to the Jefferson Parish Library Book Sale and a gift box from my mom, we did a lot of fall-themed reading this week. The biggest hits were: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (with sound effects), Ladybug Girl and the Dress-up Dilemma, and the modern Amelia Bedelia tale, Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie.
So we decided to bake an apple pie. Jack and I made a trip to Whole Foods on Friday and got our needed ingredients, i.e. lots of apples.
For the first weekend in a while, we had NOTHING planned all morning on Saturday, so it was the perfect day for a serious baking project. We had the doors open and lovely 75 degree fall weather flowing through the house.
I have two equally interested helpers, so we have long since instituted a rule of alternating turns on the step stool. Jack chopped up butter to chill. Cora dumped in dry ingredients. Repeat with occasional arguing.
One step not written into the recipe but which I felt the need to add: "Make husband take children outside occasionally to play during baking process."
We had 11 apples to prep. Look how big kid my helpers were!
I decided the apples were a good opportunity to explain odd vs. even and to practice counting. I won't say they got the concept, but they were a rapt audience. We enlisted Daddy to peel the apples bc that's the kind of job for a Daddy.
I thought our chickens were going to have a ton of apple peels to eat. I was wrong. Jack and Cora (okay, plus Mommy) ate every single Gala Apple peel - delicious! Talk about a nutrient rich snack!
It never fails to amaze me how long projects like this can last! Finish the dough and let it chill for 30 minutes...wait at least 30 minutes for apples to cool...after baking, let pie cool for 3 hours before slicing. Definitely a project to start in the morning!
Once the pie was baked, we decided on an ambitious afternoon plan of taking the streetcar down to the Blues & BBQ Festival. What an adventure for Jack and Cora. The streetcar was PACKED both there and back but the windows were open, so there was a nice breeze, and it was a great cultural experience intermingling with all types of people and getting to ride downtown amidst the big buildings and city sights.
Finally home and bathed, the kids got to try their apple pie. We all thought it was good though Cora ended up not eating hers. But that could have been a fluke. We'll try it again on her tonight.
All in all a really nice day!
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