Friends Come For A Visit (And Apple Crisp)

We bought 2 bushels of apples which turned out to be 254 apples.  That's a lot of apples.  We started off with making the traditional apple sauce and apple pie but we weren't getting them used up fast enough so Janice made an apple crisp.  Due to scheduling conflicts, only a few people were able to come over to have some. 

Cassandra was excited to host the Tipton's because she got to play with other people about her size.  Anyway, the girls seemed to enjoy the food and we can hope that their ability to pickup toys and put them away rubs off on Cassandra.  (The sooner, the better.)

Anyway, here is a group shot we got.

This Kind Of Looks Bad...

OK, these first few pictures look kind of gory.  Really, we were feeding Cassandra beets but it certainly seems appropriate that we got these pictures just before Halloween.  (Click on the pictures to enlarge.)

We also had to post this.  Cassandra seems to eat just about anything we put in front of her.  Here she is eating crab cakes.  She seemed disappointed when they were gone. 

I know some of you will be surprised she likes seafood.  Last week we did boiled shrimp.  She was not to sure about the texture and after eating the pieces of shrimp at first, she contented herself with sucking the seasoning off of them.  I never would have thought I'd see a baby sucking Zatarain's off the food.  I would have thought the seasoning would have been the part most objectionable.

Pumpkins!

One of Janice's projects this year was to grow enough pumpkin for her harvest loaf recipe (pumpkin bread).  It is the only pumpkin bread I eat and I think part of the secret is the chocolate chips.  Good stuff.  Anyway, she let Cassandra touch the insides of the pumpkins and Cassandra seemed fascinated.

Janice was able to get five pumpkins to the oven.  We might have had more but some borers got into the stems and started killing the vines.

Bows and Chairs

This weekend Cassandra helped celebrate Aunt Kristi's birthday.  It gave her the opportunity to play with bows.

Cassandra also got the chance to sit in a chair built for someone her size.  Her just sitting there instead of moving was a shocking change from the usual.

Go State!

This Saturday we drove down to Wichita to visit Rachael, Bruce, Kylie and Noah.  While there, we were able to catch part of the K-State game against Missouri.  Cassandra seemed to enjoy all the noise and fun that went along with the game.

We were also able to give the kids the presents we had been sitting on.

Amazement

Cassandra loves being outside.  We went down to the Arboretum again and took a bunch of pictures, not all of them of Cassandra.  She loved the tiny frogs.

French Toast and Strawberries, Yum!

Cassandra is really getting into the big-people-food thing.  She likes an assortment of different fruits and shows and interest in bread.  Apparently, she really liked the corn bread at school.  (I wonder where she gets her love of bread from...)  Anyway, we had French Toast and Strawberries for breakfast today and she was thrilled.