It’s in the Bag
Let me give you a peek into roughly a 24 hour period into my life with a 3 year old boy who is obsessed with bags.
B.A.G.S. Bags!
It all started innocently enough when Talmage asked to play with this little backpack that I used to use as a diaper bag for him.
I had no idea what this would unleash!
I told Lillie Kate yesterday that I was going to take a picture every time I saw him with a bag so I could document the madness. So here you go…
Bag #1
Bag #2
and if you’re wondering what was in this bag/lunchbox…
there were about 8 pairs of underwear that were later dumped onto the floor.
Bag #3
Bag #4
Wearing Bag #5
If that’s not enough, he’s been sneaking into the kitchen and getting baggies to put things in!
Bag(gie) #6
Bag #7
Bag #8
(notice two other baggies on the floor…#9 and #10)
Bag #11- a pillowcase bag
I find these things all over my house.
On the stairs…
in the kitchen…
…on his dresser…
…and I even found a stash under his bed!
His two favorite things to put into bags are underwear and socks. His underwear and sock drawer is completely empty as I type this and I’m sure they’re all in some bags somewhere over our house.
Last night he took his backpack to our friend’s house. When I walked into their den, he had apparently emptied his backpack and his socks & underwear were all over their floor! I was soooooo embarrassed!
I’m a few steps from this pushing me over the edge. I want to collect all the bags around my house and toss them into a big fire. I keep telling myself that this is a phase and that he won’t still be putting undergarments and various junk into bags when he’s sixteen. Right? Please, please tell me I’m right!
The Favorite Things of Turning Six-and-a-Half: A guest post by Lillie Kate
Today Lillie Kate is “officially” 6-and-a-half. She’s celebrating with her first blog post. :)
This morning I woke up ready for an exciting day. I got out of bed, and went downstairs. I ate breakfast and started my Home school.
Then we went outside, after we went outside we had our lunch. After our lunch I read a book, and now I am doing my first blog.
Here are some of my favorite things.
Favorite animal- a horse
Favorite subject- art
Favorite color- pink
Favorite thing to do outside- ride my scooter
Favorite food- pizza
Favorite place- Florence
Favorite movie- Rio
Favorite book- Black Beauty
Favorite song- O Suzanna
Enjoy!
by Lillie Kate
The First Day of Springtime
On the first day of Springtime, my little loves enjoyed…
12 grapes a-squishing
11 cars a-flipping
10 toes a-painted
9 laps a-riding
8 chalks a-drawing
7 buds a-blooming
6 stones a-stepping
5 pink flowers
4 padded paws
3 funny jokes
2 popsicles
and 1 crazy fun Slip-n-slide hill!
Cooking Kale & Hugging Trees
The Trapp household has been undergoing a subtle transformation recently in the food department. Brian has been super motivated by using the My Fitness Pal App and has lost 15 lbs already. (SO proud of him!) Since he keeps up and enters every drop of food he eats, it’s been a bit eye-opening for me to see the calorie content of some of my staple dinners that I’ve cooked forever. Sometimes he’ll proudly come home declaring, “I’ve got 900 calories left today!” and then the meal I’ve prepared takes him over. Wowzers. Makes me feel so terrible!
I’m from Alabama for pete’s sake and us Southerners aren’t known for our healthy food or “rabbit food” as Brian so lovingly refers to it. Fried anything, casseroles, bread, sweet tea, lots of butter, sugar, etc. is just part of our Southern food culture. I don’t necessarily cook like that all the time, but my recipe box has it’s fair share of unhealthy meals. So in an attempt to help Brian on his weight loss journey and make some better nutritional choices for our family, I’ve been on a journey myself: find more healthy meals and snacks for our family.
I started by reading the book, “Eat to Live” by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. It’s a great book full of wonderful nutritional and health information but let me tell you up front: It is radical. As in 90% of your diet should be plant-based and being a vegetarian or vegan is the ideal. We are sooooooooo nowhere even near considering eating like this. Just the word “vegan” seems scary to me. It sounds like a cross between “vampire” and “pagan” which totally freaks me out. But we are trying to eat better and include a lot more fresh fruits and vegetables than we ever have.
In my healthy food hunt, I kept hearing about kale chips. I didn’t even know what kale was. For some reason I imagined it was purple. (???) One of my friends told me she bakes it in the oven and it gets really crispy like a chip. And when 790 people give it an almost 5 star review, I’m game to try. I actually tried this lower and slower version.
And the results???
I was very pleasantly surprised at how delicious they were! They are very, very crispy and almost so crispy that they fall apart easily. We had them with burgers instead of chips and I honestly felt like I was eating chips the whole time. I will say that they DO NOT taste the same the next day. They had lost some of their crispness and were a bit more chewy. They didn’t taste bad but there was no passing them off as chips at that point. Definitely a make and eat right away kind of food. Oh, and my friend warned me that they kind of stink up your kitchen while they’re cooking so I lit a strong smelling vanilla candle in advance and it wasn’t too bad. It sort of smelt like cooked spinach or broccoli.
Brian was a bit skeptical at first when I told him what I was cooking. He jokingly said the next thing he knew, I’d be hugging trees. So what did my non-adventurous food trying husband think?
Cleaned. his. plate. He was just as surprised as I was at how wonderful they were. We’ll definitely be having these again around here. And I heard Brian telling his mom on Saturday that he’ll try anything right now. Anything??? Did I hear this correctly??? My husband will try anything???? <Insert sinister laugh here> In that case, I’m off to look up more rabbit food recipes. I’m going to milk this for all it’s worth! :)