Week 2

I really meant to post over the weekend but you know how it goes.

Progress Notes

Samantha had the best day in months on Thursday, when I got back from my morning walk she had made her bed, dressed herself and was happily playing blocks in the kitchen. A far cry from crying in her bed for me and clinging to me.

Then Friday hit and she got Gastro (aka: gastroenteritis, stomach flu, 24 hour flu, you get the idea) So Friday she hardly moved from the couch, though I will say that after vomiting she was quite perky about being on the sofa watching Charlie and Lola until the next round hit. Saturday she was recovering and Sunday pretty good.

Now we are on day 10 and she is a very happy, busy little girl. We had one fit of screaming and crying yesterday morning, and a bit of obstinacy this afternoon but significantly less than usual.

Today she was humming the Winnie the Pooh song and building castles with her duplos. After dinner she was making pictures on the fridge with magnets and telling a story to herself in what sounded like a Russian accent. She was cracking me up.

Also while I cleaned house she folded the pile of clean rags and put them back in the laundry basket for me without being asked.

This is Goggle-Eye the Sea Horse in her own words she says,
"The decorations are complete, so I am settling into my nest now to lay my eggs."
She also informed me that Sea Horses are definitely mammals.
I think we need to get a book out about Sea Horses, don't you?

I could really live like this

The Worst Soup Ever

I do some pretty strange things with food (think pancake syrup over broccoli) but it isn't very often the result is inedible.
This was!
Stuart and I each ate one bowl full and I threw the rest out.
Ironically the recipe is called Vegetable Haters Soup, to trick kids into eating their veggies. But this colossal flop cannot be blamed on the recipe book. Here is how it went.

The recipe suggests  brown rice instead of barley for GF but I decided to use Quinoa.
Then it called for 1 small potato and I put 1 small swede (rutabaga), so far it still would have been okay.
My down fall was with the red cabbage instead of green. Hence forth I will only buy small compact red cabbages not halves of overgrown cabbages. It was vile!

So much for trying to get a bigger portion of veggies into Samantha, she ended up with four spoonfuls.
She suggested putting the Pear-chup (our pear based Ketchup substitute) it turned the soup from purple to pink but was no more edible.

I may be prepared to tackle the soup again in a couple of weeks carefully following the instructions.