We went out for a nice dinner to celebrate having family in town and all the excitement of life. Food was amazing and Moxie won the crowd. The waitress offered us a Seasons 52 onsie–she was too big but that was still cool.
Tag: food
We went to the Mini Maker Fair in Silver Spring a couple weeks ago. We saw a bunch of cool stuff including 3D printers (mind: blown). We also saw our friends Betsy, Bob, and Faye. Moxie and Faye are super best friends (see earlier post). We had lunch all together. Highlights include Moxie feeding Faye some bread, Faye chewing a bit, taking it out of her mouth and feeding it back to Moxie, and Moxie returning the favor. They stole each other’s sippy cups and shared a delicious Mum Mum for dessert. So. Cute.
Our CSA is handing us A LOT of kale. Luckily Moxie is wild about it. Here’s proof:
You will notice a wide range of other finger foods on her plate: noodles, cucumber, and beets. She’s a great eater so far (knock on wood).
We went to Qdoba the other night because no one wanted to cook and Moxie wanted to chew on someone else’s table for a while. So we did. This is our local Qdoba and the kind of know us. Moxie got free black beans (you can see them on her mouth).
It took Jess 22 years and Strider 26 years to eat Ethiopian food. It only took Moxie 9 months! She only ate the injera and carrots but still! So proud!
Thanks to Mark for putting up with us.
Well. We got a great haul this week. Things I recognize even! Last week our friends Mary-Gray and Andrew taught us to cook chard. Whole new world friends. Whole new world.
Moxie is going to have asparagus tonight!
Yay!! This month Moxie and I were hosts to all our favorite babies and mamas for brunch. We busted out our fabulous foam floor (thanks to the Riccis) and all Moxie’s best toys. Our brunches are once a month (as all of you know) but this one was special because Steph and Rory are moving to Nairobi and we wanted to send them off in style. We busted out some kangas and kitenges as table cloths, drank Fanta from a bottle, and had an oddly decorated cake that said, “Safari Njema.” (*see below for story*)
The babies at mum-mums and played piano. There was also a baby pile up in the hallway because everyone wanted to play with the Ikea push walked Strider bought for Moxie about 8 months ago.
I have to say, again, how important this group of moms is for us. We appreciate being a part of the community so much. Now if some of the babies could just talk Moxie into crawling…
Big thanks to Strider for helping with all the set up, clean up, and taking the dogs on an epic trip to the dog park so they wouldn’t be too jealous of all the absolutely cuteness happening at Lombardy.
We put up all the pictures on our flickr page.
Here are some of our favorites:
*The cake has a story: I go to the Grumpy Bakery to order a cake. Here’s the conversation:
Jessica Chantelle Lee (JCL): Hi, I’d like to order a cake. May I see a list of the kinds of cakes you offer?
Grumpy Baker Lady (GBL): We don’t have a list.
JCL: Ok. I’d like a cake for about 15 people.
GBL: What flavor?
JCL: What flavors do you have?
GBL: What do you like? (here-you might think she is being helpful–she’s not. she’s annoyed)
JCL: Chocolate?
GBL: Fine.
JCL: With buttercream frosting–do you have that?
GBL: look at all the cakes. that’s what they have on them.
JCL: Oh ok. I’d like to use the colors of the Kenyan flag (I show her a picture on my phone).
GBL: Why?
JCL: it’s a going away party for a friend. They are moving to Kenya.
GBL: Well, black frosting tastes terrible.
JCL: Ok. Well please use green, red, and black–but try to make sure it doesn’t look like a christmas cake.
GBL: fine. What color flowers do you want.
JCL: I don’t want flowers. How about stripes and lines?
GBL: You have to have flowers.
JCL: Really? I don’t really want flowers.
GBL: There have to be flowers.
JCL: Um. Ok. Can you do something besides roses? Like those flowers there (pointing at another cake) can you do those in red and green?
GBL: No. Those are pansies. They don’t come in red and green. How about roses or daisies.
JCL: I don’t think roses work.
GBL: Why not?
JCL: They don’t really look African.
GBL: WELL THE WOMAN IS MOVING FROM AMERICA!! Why are you so against roses?!
JCL: Whoa. How about balloons?
GBL: Fine.
We went out for banjos and crab cakes. Moxie had pickles.
This week a bunch of stuff. Mystery greens, dinosaur kale, red leaf lettuce, radishes, red scallions, white ones, frisée, and strawberries. Oh yeah. And eggs. We are having scrambled eggs tonight.
Well, we joined a CSA. Yep. I’ve been wanting to but not committing for years. This year, now a family of three, we took the plunge.
