On Saturday, Nico had a birthday party to go to. His friend Isaac from school turned 6 years old. I asked Nico what he wanted to get for Isaac and he said a transformer, so we searched on Amazon for one and Nico picked it out. He also wanted to get him some silly putty from the dollar store, so that we did. Isaac's family lives across from Municipal Park, very close to us. It was the first "drop off" birthday party that Nico has been do, where you drop the kids off and then come back 2 hours later to pick them up. Cool! I dropped him off, gave the mom a large packaged gluten free cookie to substitute for cake, told her which drinks he could have, and then went home. Guy and I got our bikes ready and we rode to pick him up two hours later. I had the trailer bike hooked up to my bike. It was a nice day that day. Nico was playing with his friends still when we got there. Happy Nico = Happy Mommy. I told him we had the trailer bike with us for him to ride home with us and he instantly wanted to leave, he said "Bye! I have to go now!"
On Monday we went to the Discovery Center again, spent the whole time building walls and trying to keep everyone getting along.
Nico wanted to try to ride his actual bike to school, so we got it ready but he couldn't get on by himself and I had flashbacks to last Fall as he teetered and tipped along. The bike is just too big for him. I told him we couldn't ride it that day, but that we would go shopping for a different bike for him that would fit him. The next day I figured we'd give it a shot so we went to the Youth Ranch and found the perfect fit, for only $7.99. The tires were a bit messed up and after a botched attempt to patch the intertube, Jeff patched it up for us and it was good to go. Nico can get on and off this bike all by himself, and when he stops the bike he doesn't fall right over onto the ground. Perfect! He rode the bike to school yesterday and we locked it up in the bike rack. Fun.
Practicing at the park
This past week I also made my first loaf of gluten free sourdough bread. It will become a staple, because Guy loved it. LOVED it. I also made 2 sweet treat recipes recently that he loves. My cooking is adding up points!
The dough for the first rise (12 hour rise)
In the pan for the 2nd rise (8-ish hours)
The finished loaf
Sourdough bread is basically fermenting the flour, a lot like sauerkraut is fermenting the cabbage, so vitamins and minerals are quadrupled in many cases and the proteins in the flour are broken down so are easier to digest. Even I can eat it! Nico isn't too fond of it, but I am thinking of getting a milder-tasting sourdough starter so it doesn't have that ZING to it.
That's it for this week. Short and sweet and sour.
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