Thursday, August 23, 2007
potty and food in one post??? wth.... =)
Today, we started potty training Carlee....
(I've been dreading this for so long)
But today I finally decided it was time to seriously start.
After 2 accidents, she got the idea that she was no longer in comfortable diapers, and started sitting on the potty. It took her a while to actually relax enough to go, but she did it!!! Hopefully, she'll want to continue using the potty after today.
I'm hoping that this means it will be fairly easy.
**Crossing fingers!!**
Not only was I excited about getting Carlee to use the potty, I was uber excited about dinner too. It took all afternoon, and a lot of work, and quite a bit of time to do all the wrapping.... but it was worth it!!!
For dinner, we had vegan lumpia. I used a recipe a friend has given me a while back, and altered it a bit. I used the fake meat crumbles instead of beef, and left out the egg that it called for. Minced carrots, celery, onion, garlic, and soy sauce also went into the "meat" mixture. *Thank goodness for food processors!* I used water instead of egg whites to close the wrap and amazingly it worked! So why use egg? I don't get it. Anyway, they came out really good. Tony was in heaven. I even had 18 that were left over, so I froze them so I can cook them later.
To top it off we had vegan brownies that were so rich and delicious. I used a recipe out of The Everyday Vegan by Dreena Burton. I just found out that she blogs too, Vive le Vegan, so of course I had to go leave her a comment. =) The brownies were really delicious. Tony said I had definitely found the way to his heart. haha.
It's days like today that I feel really accomplished.
=)
(I've been dreading this for so long)
But today I finally decided it was time to seriously start.
After 2 accidents, she got the idea that she was no longer in comfortable diapers, and started sitting on the potty. It took her a while to actually relax enough to go, but she did it!!! Hopefully, she'll want to continue using the potty after today.
I'm hoping that this means it will be fairly easy.
**Crossing fingers!!**
Not only was I excited about getting Carlee to use the potty, I was uber excited about dinner too. It took all afternoon, and a lot of work, and quite a bit of time to do all the wrapping.... but it was worth it!!!
For dinner, we had vegan lumpia. I used a recipe a friend has given me a while back, and altered it a bit. I used the fake meat crumbles instead of beef, and left out the egg that it called for. Minced carrots, celery, onion, garlic, and soy sauce also went into the "meat" mixture. *Thank goodness for food processors!* I used water instead of egg whites to close the wrap and amazingly it worked! So why use egg? I don't get it. Anyway, they came out really good. Tony was in heaven. I even had 18 that were left over, so I froze them so I can cook them later.
To top it off we had vegan brownies that were so rich and delicious. I used a recipe out of The Everyday Vegan by Dreena Burton. I just found out that she blogs too, Vive le Vegan, so of course I had to go leave her a comment. =) The brownies were really delicious. Tony said I had definitely found the way to his heart. haha.
It's days like today that I feel really accomplished.
=)
Labels: carlee, food, vegetarian
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