Vegan and Stuffed

This is my typical lunch every day. I can barely fit it all on dinner plate. So... I am striving for a vegan diet with no processed foods or sugar. Easier said than done and I am far from perfection in any given week...but I do pretty darn good if I say so myself!
Not that anyone looks at my blog...but I am posting this to show that I eat a TON and am very full and in no way am depriving my self of needed nutrients or calories. This is Romaine with red peppers, tomato, cauliflower, green onion, green pepper, 2 tbs light Thousand Island Dressing and my spicy beans on top. I have no idea how it fits into my stomach actually.

Happy Birthday to Leia today!

You are 5 months old today! I love you so much. You are growing so fast and are a very physically and mentally strong baby. Your sweetness is a blessing to me and our family. I love to snuzz your neck and squoosh your cheeks and smell your head and your feet (gross but so true and I don't care-they are too cute not to nibble on!) You have the cutest squeals and giggles. You like to kick your foot on the floor when relaxing and to hold your toes and give them a taste! You are a very messy eater and love to grab the spoon and suck your messy fingers full of food. You are an active spirit just stuck in this baby body for sure...you cannot be left alone too long and you have wanted to sit up since you were born! You rolled over at 6 weeks and now you are up on all fours rocking just ready to crawl! I will miss you my dear when you are no longer my sweet smelling package of a baby. I love to feed you and snug you and take you with me. You are not a bother to me. You are my good friend and I hope I can always be a good friend to you...I love you Leilerson san seet little stinker scoot'n boots. Bootie Scoot and Scootin Boots. You love to boot your scoot~I love you Bootie Scoot. Mom.

My little Scooter

10-8-2009 A Full Day

So today we started off by finally giving Gina her first hair cut...well trim. I cant believe I haven't done this yet...

Before...and after!

Now not so rat-so!

I am loving teaching my kids in homeschool! It's not just academics (heaven forbid...) Jane made her own sandwich complete with toothpick and olive for herself...

And shared with Lukie! Such a nice sister!

Mary learned how to cook oatmeal for her lunch today...

Everyone had some...using baby spoons of coarse because Mom had no clean spoons and didn't feel like washing any - and its just more fun to eat oatmeal with a baby spoon!

THEN....we cooked the minestrone soup for dinner together!

Note to self: Do Not Open Cans of Tomato Sauce With Baby In Arms.

Poor Gina! Colonel the Horse bit her finger when she was giving him a horse treat! It left a pretty good little bite mark on her finger. Travis said she screamed pretty good when it happened...

But after some ice cream she recovered.

This past week I canned15 or so quarts of apple-pie filling. So I put together an apple pie for a treat tonight. This picture is to show that my kids are crazy and only ate ice cream and would not touch or did not like the pie. It was good I swear! It tastes like apple pie! Apples and sugar! Very typical around here though. My kids will eat 5 raw apples a day each - but they wont touch them if they have sugar all over them....And I'm upset by this? Hmm....

9-24-2009 Leia's First Food

Today we went visiting Roxy's house. We made some homemade spaghetti sauce all day.
Here Leia tried her first solid food - bananas and avocado mixed. Yum!

Well..maybe not so yum....

9-23-2009

Leia likes her new tub...

Today we had our first chapter in Science on 'Insects'. We sat on the lawn to have the lesson...and would you believe....just after the lesson Mary finds a praying mantis on the fence! Six legs, exoskeleton, camouflage, compound and simple eyes...Thank you Mr or Mrs. Mantis for contributing to the lesson!

Luke doing his homework - gluing beans to his letter 'B'.

"Dot...Dot...not alot" Learning to do glue.