French Toast @ MindSay

It has been a momentous day in the house of ShocKs.  (and no...not just because I'm blogging today).

It started out as any other weekend.  Yesterday Av had school picture day, so I volunteered to go help out with that.  But the morning at school first started out with the two of us baking challah.  A wonderful tradition at his school is that on Friday afternoons, the entire school (K-8) comes together to welcome Shabbat.  They do a abbreviated version of the Friday night service, and at the end they say the traditional Shabbat blessings over the candles, wine (or in this case grape juice) and challah.  But the challah doesn't come from the local bakery, it comes from the Kindergarten.  Each Friday morning, one Kindergartener and their parent make the dough that will become the challah for the whole school.  So there we were scooping and measuring, cracking eggs (shells go in the compost bucket don't forget!).  The fun part of course was teaching Av how to knead the dough ("I'm making burritos!").  Then we let the dough rise while taking school pictures.  One of the teachers then braids and bakes two challahs - one for the school, and the other for us to take home.  I was excited, because now that he helped make it, maybe he would actually eat plain challah.  But alas, that was not to be...

Now while the kids were getting their picture taken, you could also sign them up for an identification program.  They would get weighed, measured how tall, fingerprinted, and photographed for an ID card in case of emergency.  This was good to be on the safe side, but it also allowed me to see how big Av has really gotten!  You see, earlier this week was the first time we had to break out the puffy winter jacket, which is just not that compatable with Av's car seat.  Yes, he's still sitting in a five point harness, but it's awesome, and designed to support a child up to 65lbs.  Av's at 60.  So with all of this put together, Shiny and I decided it was finally time to say goodbye to our beloved snow leopard print Britax Marathon and get the kid a booster seat.

To say that Av was excited was a bit of an understatement.  I took him to the Babies R Us near our house and we found the exact model we decided on after much reading and research yesterday.  He thought it was so cool to try it out on the van bench seat they have at the store (complete with Latch and shoulder belts!)  He was proud to carry the box all the way up to the register all by himself.  And there you go.  We also went to Toys R Us to check out what they had, and although it was only a few dollars less, Av insisted on the ones from Babies, because they were brown and comfy.  Ok.  At least it didn't have a branded character on it...

We got home around 2, and he couldn't wait to open the box and put it together.  A few minutes later, I uninstall the Britax, plop the booster on the seat, and in he climbs.  It's lower than the carseat, and he's all excited that now if he drops a toy on the seat, he'll be able to reach it all by himself.  And it has cup holders!  He still needs a little help with the buckling part, but we figured there would be a learning curve with that.

So there was my big boy - all excited in his new booster seat.  "Mommy?  Am I a grown up now?"  Not quite yet.  And then he asked - "Can we go out to get you lunch?  Let's go to Subway!"  So back in the car I got for that five minute drive around the corner so that he could test drive the new seat.  Shiny arrived back home the same time we did, and Av excitedly showed him how to put the seat together, and then climbed in to test it out in Shiny's car.

Tonight to celebrate, we made homemade french toast (for the first time) using the challah that we made at school.  For a kid that refuses to eat bread, I was impressed that he still ate the toast after helping me make it and seeing that it really does start out as bread.  But toast all around - with chocolate milk!  An awesome way to celebrate this milestone.

Hang on. I seem to remember something about spam being bad somewhere in the terms of use. People obviously haven't tried it in conjunction with toast. Toast presents itself in many forms. burnt, triangles, rectangles, underdone, imaginary and sometimes double-buttered.
Double-buttering is a sin. Should you carry out this crime to the soul, when you inevitably make it into hell, mighty demonds will make your toenails into a fine sauce. Please take precautions against this by dying holding a semi-automatic.

Yesterday we went to the mega hair emporium...it's not really called that but it should be. I walked in and was overwhelmed with hair. Seriously. Where would you begin? I started at the ponytails! LOL I tell you, the older I get, the more I open myself up to ideas I was once so opposed to so adamantly in my youth. But I digress. I got some new stuff that you will have to wait to see and I look FIERCE.

 

IHop was breakfast. I had stuffed french toast *cherry/vanilla* and Myclette had a veggie bean omelet. My food was soooo good. Those stuffed french toast things should be outlawed. We took a trip back to the house for a few minutes and then went to see Myclette's family. Her mother and father are ADORABLE. They are so sweet and easy to chat with. Their house is gorgeous, the type of house I would want when I get situated. They are so ballin'. We picked up Ms. E from there and took her back to the house to spend time with her father while we went to dinner with Environgirl .

 

My throat still hurts from all the laughter. She is HYSTERICALLY funny. We decided to hit a texmex spot for dinner called Molina's. OMG the salsa was like hot sauce with veggies. The food was a great value and delicious. Myclette and I both had the Molina special which consisted of a tamale, a chicken enchilada, a burrito, and a tostada. Talk about good. Neither of us could finish our dinners. Environgirl helped us polish them off, then it was off to the house. We were all so tired.

 

Today we are going to the art museum with Ms. E and then later tonight : KARAOKE Y'ALL.

 

PS. Ms. E is hilarious, too. She is an extra smart busy bee. In an hour and a half she read me 2 books, watched Spongebob together, talked about what she likes to do, boot scoot boogied, cheered with pompoms, and I watched her try to do yoga. TOO cute.

I have just woken up for the second time today.  I had to go to work for a bit, so I did that at 6 am.  My theory has always been - get it out of the way so you can play!

It smells lovely outside, though weather.com tells me it's going to be 95 today!  I guess that puts a damper on wearing pants.

I'm going to convince Gregory we need to go to breakfast.  I'm in the mood for French toast, made by someone else.

Our bed is going to be delivered today.  I'm looking forward to the cuddle tonight.

I'm hoping we will see Pirates today.  I'm in the middle of the first one, just cos, hey - men in eyeliner are hawt!

All right, I'm off to shower and wash my hair.