This week's fun

Here's a few things from this week. This morning when I wasn't getting out of bed very quickly (not unusual) Elsa wrote this for me and brought it in my room. She put in on the night stand by my bed and said, "I'll leave this here so you can see it and remember that I love you." I just think it's fun that she's learning how to write a few things by herself, and that she loves to give things to others. It was a great revelation to her that you can draw a heart and that means "loves". She's written many notes like this, but she remembered how to write Mom!! Wahoo!
Tonight we had some friends over for some Mauritian/Indian food. It was DELICIOUS!! It was so fun to cook yummy food knowing that it would be appreciated and eaten! I love to cook for Chris, but it's a lot of work for the two of us. So, now the pictures are out of order. Here is the dessert. Kulfi. Very refreshing. I learned that I like the flavor of cardamom (powdered cardamom also courtesy of Robyn).

And here is a dished up plate. Chicken Tikka Masala over basmati rice, Cucumber Raita, Braised Leafy Greens(from the recipe book Robyn brought back for me from Mauritius), and Naan. It all turned out so tasty! I'm so glad there are a few left overs. I'm only sad I didn't get a picture with our guests! They were so fun--and they loved the food too!!

Like I said, pictures are out of order. I loved this idea that I have seen on several blogs, and I had a coupon for free prints at Shutterfly, so we did these Valentines. They had the cute borders on the Shutterfly website, so it made it really easy. Elsa and Gibson have had fun handing them out, and they had fun posing for the pictures too! I think I'll want to do this every year!

This next series of pictures is a prime example of one of Gibson's favorite things to do. Line things up. This day he found a stack of Dora and Diego playing cards that has a mixture of 3 or 4 different decks, and made a really big line. It swerved all around the front room. When he was done getting them all ready we played a matching game where we each turned over two cards and left them face up, trying to find all the matches. We never finished finding all the matches. There were too many.....the fun didn't last that long. It was a lot more fun lining them all up!

You can often tell where Gibson has been because he leaves things in nice little rows. Very organized....I think that will prove to be a good thing!