Fakir

Her: I can't feel my car seat.
Me: So you're saying you're just floating there?
Her: Yeah.
Me: When did you learn to levitate?
Her: Three months ago.

kitchen stuff

Kiddo wanted strawberry cake with vanilla ice cream for her birthday. I used this recipe, which was one of the few I could find that didn't use flavorings or Jell-O. The strawberry flavor was subtle but good, and without food coloring, it wasn't really pink. I put vanilla in the whipping cream and stabilized it with gelatin.

Blackberry ice cream was good, but frozen seeds are pretty bad.

I made a chicken-posole stew that turned out well. What I did is below, but I would change a few things. Canned tomatoes in the beginning instead of salsa at the end. No cream. Brown the chicken and onions first. Use chicken broth. Maybe cook the chicken thighs whole and shred them; bone-in would have better flavor, but remove skin.

1 lb. fresh posole
2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken thighs, cubed
1/2 onion, diced
1/2 cup chopped, roasted green chile
Water
1/4 cup cream
3/4 cup salsa

In a low slow-cooker, simmer posole in enough water to cover for an hour, until it has popped." Add chicken, onion, chile, more water if needed. Keep slow cooker on low for four more hours.

Add cream and salsa before serving. Garnish with more salsa, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, green onions, avocados.

Shapes

Favorite sentence of the day:

Gwab dat purpoh twapezoid.

Stop asking me that

Why not
Because
[offstage] WHY? WHY?!
Because... I can't answer that question.
OKAY.

Why did you say why
Because I was pretending to be you, and you say why a lot
Why do I say why
That's your developmental phase
Yeah

Backfired

From the backseat at hour 16 (of 24) of our drive home from Grandma's:

"I'm being good! I gave [6-month-old] some of my cheese crackers."