Summer Days...

The City of Norman has this great thing called "The Splash Pad." For those of you who don't know what it is, I'll tell you. It's a fenced in concrete pad that has water toys. Remember running through the sprinklers in the yard as a kid? Think of the splash pad as an industrial-like running-through-the-sprinklers type area. It's great becuase kids can play in the water and parents have the peace of mind knowing that they can see their kids in the entire area and they won't escape... :o) And I also like the fact that I think it would be very hard for any child to drown.


We've taken Emma a couple of times this summer and she LOVES it. Emma is a fish. It doesn't matter if the water is in the tub, a pool or sprinkler, she loves the water. Funny enough though, she doesn't like the shower...

She likes it...she likes it not?

As promised, I got a photo of Emma eating the oatmeal bars. A direct quote, "Mmmm!" Yay!

I did watch her eat the rest of it and the only part she apparently DIDN'T like was the dried apricots. It was hilarious watching her feel them on her tongue, roll them around in her mouth and then watch her pull them out as she said "yech." Silly me...I thought she like dried apricots, but now that I think about it, I don't think she ever ate them plain when I gave them to her as a snack or part of lunch.

I found some dried apples in our food storage yesterday and the light bulb went on over my head. I'm going to make the oatmeal bar recipe again, and this time add a little DRIED apple and see how it works.

Also, I was watching The Rachael Ray show a couple days ago and saw a segment about Crock Pot Cooking. Rachael had this lady on that challenged herself to cook 365 homecooked meals for dinner, one every night. But, she did ALL the cooking in the CROCK POT! I was amazed. She also documented her journey on a BLOG, that is now linked on mine! I'm so excited to have access to more (kid-tested, I might add) Crock Pot recipes. Matt's excited too. Now I "don't have an excuse to not use the Crock Pot."

Time to start cooking...!