Hi!

Samuel has started doing lots of "phone" talking. Putting anything up to his ear and talking on it. He also has started waving to say hi to everyone, though Daddy and Grandpa seem to be his favorites right now. 

Judah's new favorite show

Judah finally wrapped up his obsessive Octonauts watching and moved on to a new show. His new favorite is "Inspector Badger", aka Inspector Gadget. 

Making Paper People

Judah came up with this idea all on his own. He cut up shapes and taped them together into paper people. 

Judah's sayings

Judah says "cattached" in place of attached. He also refers to his guitar as his "cuitar". 

Teeth!

The last week was a bit rough around here and we finally have confirmation of why...teeth! Samuel finally popped out his bottom two teeth. He started having an awful time sleeping, waking up during the night to cry, inconsolably, for an hour or two. Not interested in eating, milk or solids. He would do 20-30 min naps and wake crying. And was rubbing and grabbing at his left ear.

He sits!

No more laying around for Samuel, in the past week he's learned to sit all by himself!

Nut Butter Experiments

As we've been jumping into our Paleo journey Jamie discovered some yummy pecan cashew butter at the store. After quickly demolishing a jar we realized that at $13 a pop this might become an expensive habit. So we thought, why couldn't we make our own? Turns out you can and with a little experimenting you can tailor one to just what you like. After checking with the google a bit we decided to use our food processor instead of the Vitamix blender. We also decided to toast our pecans first. We did three batches and varied the cashew/pecan ratios which impacted the amount of time needed to process it to the texture we wanted. (Forgive my handwritten tape labels, my label maker ran out of tape and the replacement is in the mail from Amazon.)

The original $13 jar of pecan cashew butter.

 Batch 1: 1/2 cup cashews, 1 3/4 cup pecan (toasted 4 minutes), processed about 5 minutes. This one had the runniest consistency. It also tasted a bit more toasty. 

 Batch 2: Half cashew, Half pecan (toasted 2 minutes and chilled), processed less than 5 minutes. This one had a nice consistency, not runny, but not to chunky. It tasted pretty cashew-y.

 Batch 3: All pecan (toasted 2 minutes and chilled), processed 5 minutes. This batch too much longer to get even a chunky texture. It tasted very pecan-y.