A Blog Post About Blog Posting

Over the past month and a half or so (let's see, when was my last post?) there have been a dozen or so moments when I've thought, "I should blog about this." And I had every intention of doing so. But the general hustle and bustle of life has been getting in the way quite a bit lately.

So this post will serve as the Reader's Digest version of all those things that I've wanted to put out there for you all to know and read about. I'm personally not a big Twitter fan, and I'm not sure how many of my readers are Twitter-users, but I think I may make a personal goal of a Twitter-like post at least once a week. Short and sweet.

But on to the news...

-Kiki is mega teething. One of her bottom canines is on its way in, but I think she may gnaw her hand off before it gets here.

-We are ending (knock on wood) a phase of Kiki wanting significantly less sleep than in the past many months. About three weeks ago, Kiki woke up at about 5:15 am, instead of her usual 6:15. This has continued since, regardless of what time we put her to sleep, how much energy we tried to run out of her, or how much we begged (yes, it came to that). She also would occasionally wake briefly in the middle of the night. The time she woke up could be anywhere between 4:45am-6:00am. The last two mornings have been 6:07 and 6:10, so hopefully we are returning to normal. It has truly been like having a newborn in the house again.

-My first 5K is this coming Sunday. I have now had 3 practice runs of the full race length, so there are no excuses. I know I can run the whole thing. Yay!! I will be running another on Oct 4th and another on Oct 25th. That will probably be it for the year, but I really have the running bug. I will start looking at 2010 races soon, to keep myself motivated through the winter!

-Inspired by Uncle Gregg, his masterful culinary creations, and my own general desire to build more variety and healthful foods into our menu, I have recently been trying some new recipes. As Uncle Gregg often does, I took pictures of a few of them, with the intention of blogging about the experiences. But it just didn't come to pass. I still hope to do that in the future, but in the meantime, here is a list of what we tried and our general assessment of the dish.
-Chicken Pasta Fagioli - Tasty (less salt next time), Easy, Good leftovers
-Chicken Tortilla Soup - Tasty, Spicy!, Easy
-Rice Stuffed Avocados - We do not like warm avocado, but the rice was good!
-Chicken Club Salad - Delish, a great make-ahead meal. Even Kiki liked it!
-Pork Apple Meatballs - Got this one from the toddler cookbook. Freezes well. Needed a little extra salt.

If any one has any ideas for other healthy, quick and EASY (I'm really no cook) recipes, send them my way! And I'd be happy to pass any of those from the list along as well.

-Kiki has been cousin crazy the last month or so. I will say that her end-of-the-summer "Cousin Party" was a lot of fun, and a big success. She was a happy girl at the end of that cousin filled day. Since then, she has had a sleepover weekend with cousin E, several play sessions with cousin K, and many video screenings of cousins L and M.

-This past weekend, we went to an orchard for a day with Grandpa and Grandma, Aunt Carol, cousin E, Aunt Jeff and Aunt Angela. Kiki and E had more fun riding the tractor, playing in the mega sandbox and eating donuts than apple picking, but all in all, it was a great day with beautiful weather!