Keeping up with the Moys

Our Week in Photos (Week 4 of 52)

joyceandnorm — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:50:17 +0000

Highlights
*Happy Lunar New Year!
*Gymnastics starts again for Melody
*MOPS
WEEK 4 OF 52 album

This Week’s Post
*Sludge
*Emily-ism: With
*San Francisco Symphony by Melody
*Melody-ism: Stink | Laminator
*What We’re Eating: Banana Chocolate Crepes
*Review: Toasty Melts

Besides the highlights that I have listed, nothing much happen except the usual stuff. I had many great mornings this second week of the Hello Mornings Challenge. Hoping to enjoy a relaxing weekend. Anyone celebrate another New Year?

- Joyce

Photos by Joyce Moy, Jan 18, 2012

Week 4 of 52 (2012), posted with vodpod

Review: Toasty Melts

joyceandnorm — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:12:16 +0000

Head over to our review blog to read about Toasty Melts.

Melody-ism: Laminator

joyceandnorm — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:39:45 +0000

Melody (looking at the laminator): When can we use the laminator, Mommy? When can we lamb something out?

What would you lamb if you had a laminator?

What We’re Eating: Banana Chocolate Crepes

joyceandnorm — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Image Source: Parenting Magazine

I’ve been going through magazines and just marking off recipes and ideas that I like, so that I can pass them on to others (as I de-clutter). This BANANA CHOCOLATE CREPES was one that I found in Parenting Magazine. It is listed under Healthy Kids Snacks on the website, but I’m not sure that it is a healthy snack. Oh well, they were good.

CHANGES
None

SUGGESTIONS
The next time we make these, I would either add even less than a “pat of butter”, and possibly less chocolate chips. And maybe, just put it in the toaster oven to bake for a few minutes instead of putting on the pan for more crispiness, instead of crepe-like. That would make it easier for the kids to eat it by themselves, and also makes for easier cleanup (no need to wash a pan).

VERDICT
The ‘pat of butter’ added too much of a salty flavor to the crepe, but otherwise, it was yummy. I love that this is something simple that the kids can help make.

- Joyce

Click on the link to view more of WHAT WE’RE EATING

BANANA CHOCOLATE CREPES recipe from Parenting Magazine

Prep Time: No more than 10 minutes (with little ones helping)
Cook Time: 2-4 minutes
Total Time: 12-14 minutes
Makes: Makes 8 little wedges.

Ingredients:

Pat of butter
One banana, thinly sliced
Handful chocolate chips
Two flour tortillas
Powdered sugar for dusting (optional)

Instructions:

Melt butter in nonstick pan.
Arrange banana slices over one tortilla and mash them in very lightly with a fork.
Dot with chocolate chips and place second tortilla on top.
Slide into frying pan and cook for a few minutes on each side, until brown and golden at the edges.
Let cool for a minute or two, then slice into wedges and serve dusted with powdered sugar, if desired.

Kids can help: Peel banana, spread banana slices on tortilla, lightly mash bananas, arrange chocolate chips over fruit

Melody-ism: Stink

joyceandnorm — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:22:59 +0000

Melody was looking at a Puzzle Buzz magazine that my sister gave the girls. She was doing the page with the maze on it. There are 3 people on one side, and the mazes twists all over the page leading to 3 things that matches with the 3 people.

She goes from the boy with the clothespin on his nose on one side of the maze to the other side, and says,

“Oh no. He smells something. A stink. A stunk. A skunk.”

That’s one way to put it, I guess. =p

San Francisco Symphony

joyceandnorm — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:30:42 +0000

Here is another blog post by Melody. I inserted the photos and she told me what she wanted as the captions. I wrote it out on a piece of scratch paper, and she typed in the captions. I typed up the summary of her experience, but she did the captions. Enjoy!

by Melody
I went with my homeschool group to the San Francisco Symphony last Wednesday. We took the BART train there. We heard a lot of music. I liked the can-can song. Can you do the can-can? :p I really liked the flute. Brenda’s was too crowded for lunch, so we went to Round Table, but it was too full. So we went to Burger King instead because it was next to it.

My first BART ride

standing on the BART

walking with friends

the symphony

the whole symphony togeher

inside the symphony

statues

davies symphony hall

on the BART with yee -yee

Emily-ism: With

joyceandnorm — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:34:23 +0000

Emily was looking at Melody’s Latin cards, and she said, “Apud With.”

If you didn’t know, now you do! =)
Latin lesson #1
apud = with

She wasn’t reading it though, because the card that was in the front was ‘quod’.
Latin lesson #2
quod = that

Sludge

joyceandnorm — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:30:21 +0000

Since it was a long weekend with the MLK holiday and two days off of work tacked on top of that, I decided that it would be a good idea to clean out the gutters before the rainy season started. Good thing I did. There was some sludge in the gutters that I hosed down.

Well, at least our house isn’t surrounded by trees. Although I did manage to find an empty peanut shell up there. Your guess on how it got up there? Joyce thinks it might’ve been a roofing contractor from the previous homeowner…..or the previous homeowner himself.

- Norm

Our Week in Photos (Week 3 of 52)

joyceandnorm — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:45:10 +0000

Highlights
*Lakeshore craft time
*BIL’s birthday dinner at Red Robin
*Melody’s dental check-up
*Daddy Adventure Day: BART train ride, San Francisco Symphony Kids’ Concert and Burger King
*Mommy Adventure Day: Library time and Frodo Joe’s Crepes
*The girls did a photo scavenger hunt for my BIL’s birthday
WEEK 3 OF 52 album

Upcoming
*Chinese New Year
*MOPS

This Week’s Post
*Hello Mornings: Ready, Set, Go!
*Melody-ism: Blog
*Melody’s Blocks by Melody
*What We’re Eating: Trader Joe’s Cornbread Mix
*Restaurant Review: Frodo Joe’s (looks like I have a thing for Joe)

This week was a super duper fun week. Norm had Monday to Wednesday off, so we had a lot of fun family time together. Melody had quite the adventure on Wednesday as you can see…first BART ride and the symphony! We are hoping for a chill weekend. By chill I don’t mean weather-wise because that already happened the past week…I think there were a few days that we never got past mid-40s, which I think is rare for these parts, right? I’m really enjoying the Hello Mornings challenge so far. Ask me again next week. hehe My group is with friends this time instead of randomly assigned participants from the same time zone. Hooray! Anyone have a bigger adventure than Melody did this week?

- Joyce

Photos by Joyce Moy, Jan 18, 2012

Week 3 of 52 (2012), posted with vodpod

Review: Frodo Joe’s (San Lorenzo Restaurant)

joyceandnorm — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:45:22 +0000

Head over to our review blog to read more about Joyce and Emily’s Mommy Adventure Day at Frodo Joe’s.