Lasagna...

These pictures are a few weeks old now, but I forgot to put them up last week... and I forgot to take a camera with a memory card to our homestay last week, so these are the pictures you get. Before we left the capital I made lasagna (with pasta that wasn't lasagna pasta)... I had to make the homemade cottage cheese and the pasta sauce, so it was quite a task, but super yummy. You can see below that Ellie was thrilled with my efforts.
If I had taken a camera with a memory card to our homestay this week, I would have posted pictures of a totally different type of food... Iftar food. It's the month for fasting here, and the fast is broken at sundown (about 7:30) each day. Everyone sits down with special food at that time... at our house we have been eating khichuri (fried rice), piyaji (fried onions and lentils), fried eggplant, dates, jelapi (fried sweet pretzel looking thing), fruit (banana, pineapple, apple), chola (hmmm, can't think of the english word right now)... and even before you chow down on that you drink a glass of a sweet drink... one day lemonade, one day a kool aid type thing, and one day tang... maybe I can get a picture of it for you this week. :)

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Celebrating early because we'll be at our homestay next Monday... the 24th.
In the States...



In the Solomons...

Our little reader...

Ellie is a little book enthusiast... it is by far her favorite thing to do. We were very short on books (there's only so many times a mommy can read the same three books over and over) so my dad sent us a pile of GREAT books. The one Ellie is reading in these pictures has an animal making a face on one side. On the other side is the same animal with a mirror in the face's place. When I read to Ellie (and she's on my lap) she can see my face in the mirror making the face. When she reads on her own, as you can see below, she gets right up close to admire herself. Thanks, Dad!!!

Eyewear

Above Ellie tries on Mommy's sunglasses.
Below Ellie realizes that she doesn't like goggles... while it's not the happiest picture to post, at least you can check out her teeth... she now has 7 all the way in and one more about to pop through.

Where does a month go?

Whoops! A whole month went by with no new pictures on the blog... that doesn't mean nothing was happening, though... On the contrary, it means a ton was happening! Above, is our return train trip from the capital. Ellie was so worn out that she snoozed on her daddy with her dog Cider.


Ellie gets to ride on her daddy's bike with him sometimes. This was the first time she did it. Franklin borrowed our friend's bike that had a seat attachment. Now that our friends (we miss you guys!) have gone out of the country, they lent us the seat, so Ellie can go more often. You can see Ellie is waving bye bye... even if her eyes are closed. :)

While we were in the capital, our friends stayed at the same guest house... bathtime fun.