While we didn't bring home any fish from Crystal River (see previous post) we did manage to bring home a lovely cold...one for everyone!! Shay thought that we needed to make some chicken noodle soup, so we made what we lovingly call 'spoon noodles.'  These are hand-made noodles (for lack of a better term) which are pretty much little balls of dough that are dropped into a pot of boiling chicken broth.  They are a tradition on my mom's side of the family and are an old Polish recipe (again, for lack of a better term) that really has no set ingredient list or amounts. My Grandma (my mom's mom) always just said to mix them until they 'look right.'  I am sure that saying was passed down just as the recipe was.  Shay did a really good job and was super proud of herself!

We all got better in a timely fashion.....thanks to Shay's spectacular soup, of course!

Ethan turned 1 on August 10 (my how time flies!) and we had his party on August 15th.  We had a wonderful time and appreciate everyone that was able to come and missed those that couldn't.  Lesson learned: we need a much larger house that is somewhere cold, say Alaska, because it was miserably hot!!

Ethan preferred the wrapping paper over the cake!! Hahahaha....

Another exciting event that happened (at least for some...because for me it was rather sad) was that Shay started VPK.  She was so pumped about this that all she talked about for a whole week prior was what she was going to wear, how we should fix her hair, what she was going to wear, what she was going to do at school, what she was going to wear, what her teacher was like...and did I mention what she was going to wear? She is such a priss and I am just not sure how that happened.....David??  Needless to say, she has figured out how this school thing works and is loving every minute!

Eating breakfast before school....lovely hair, huh?

In her classroom!

Until next time.....