Saturday, June 26, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Thoughts for Claire
Who is Claire? She is my friend's son's playmate who suffered a near drowning accident over Memorial Day weekend. I don't know many details other than there was a party, a pool, and a 4.5 year old who got lost in the shuffle briefly and ended up coming close to dying.
Claire is on the road to recovery and her dad is blogging her progress. Please keep her in your thoughts and remember how easy it is to lose track of a little one near water.
Claire is on the road to recovery and her dad is blogging her progress. Please keep her in your thoughts and remember how easy it is to lose track of a little one near water.
Tour de Suisse
Perhaps you haven't heard that the World Cup is going on right now. Well I have. Repeatedly.
I also found out today that the World Cup isn't the only sporting event that is happening, so is the Tour de Suisse. I guess that is the Tour de France but in Switzerland. ;)
The end of the 7th leg and beginning of the 8th starts in my neck of the woods in Wetzikon next Fri/Sat so I am going to ask around and see if it will be mobbed and if not, take the kids to have a look. Provided Wetzikon has a coffee shop, of course.
http://www.tds.ch/
I also found out today that the World Cup isn't the only sporting event that is happening, so is the Tour de Suisse. I guess that is the Tour de France but in Switzerland. ;)
The end of the 7th leg and beginning of the 8th starts in my neck of the woods in Wetzikon next Fri/Sat so I am going to ask around and see if it will be mobbed and if not, take the kids to have a look. Provided Wetzikon has a coffee shop, of course.
http://www.tds.ch/
Friday, June 11, 2010
Let's Make More Steak Mommy
My big girl started eating steak on her fifth birthday.
Ever since she started solids, she had some texture issues and meat is a big one for her. It started with homemade baby food. Try as I might, I could never get it smooth enough for her so I went to the store bought organic baby food. I liked that stuff because it didn't have any hidden ingredients, what was on the label was the sum total of what was in the jar. Unfortunately, she could never eat the stage 3 (or lumpy) baby food. She'd gag or vomit or both.
As she got older, her protein sources were limited. She'd eat milk, cheese, eggs, tempeh, seitan, (the latter 2 are unavailable in Switzerland) and the occasional bites of chicken as long as the texture is destroyed in the cooking process. Oh and whole pinto beans from Freebirds World Burritos.
When we moved to Switzerland, she stopped eating cheese and Freebirds is too far away for take out so that reduced her protein sources further.
About a week before she turned 5, I told her that now that she is 5 I bet she is old enough for steak. She bought it. On her fifth birthday she tried steak and declared that she likes it. A lot. So I try and buy it so she gets protein.
Yesterday I made steak for dinner and gave her a decently European portion. She ate it and then we had the following conversation:
Big Girl: Mommy, I want more steak
me: I am glad you liked it but it is all gone
Big Girl: nooooooooooooooo Make more
me: (chuckle) I can't make more, it isn't like bread where I have the flour and can cook more.
Big Girl: We can go shoot a cow to make more steak.
me: (dying of laughter on the inside) I don't think the farmer would appreciate us shooting his cow.
So there you go. Run out of steak? Go shoot a cow.
Ever since she started solids, she had some texture issues and meat is a big one for her. It started with homemade baby food. Try as I might, I could never get it smooth enough for her so I went to the store bought organic baby food. I liked that stuff because it didn't have any hidden ingredients, what was on the label was the sum total of what was in the jar. Unfortunately, she could never eat the stage 3 (or lumpy) baby food. She'd gag or vomit or both.
As she got older, her protein sources were limited. She'd eat milk, cheese, eggs, tempeh, seitan, (the latter 2 are unavailable in Switzerland) and the occasional bites of chicken as long as the texture is destroyed in the cooking process. Oh and whole pinto beans from Freebirds World Burritos.
When we moved to Switzerland, she stopped eating cheese and Freebirds is too far away for take out so that reduced her protein sources further.
About a week before she turned 5, I told her that now that she is 5 I bet she is old enough for steak. She bought it. On her fifth birthday she tried steak and declared that she likes it. A lot. So I try and buy it so she gets protein.
Yesterday I made steak for dinner and gave her a decently European portion. She ate it and then we had the following conversation:
Big Girl: Mommy, I want more steak
me: I am glad you liked it but it is all gone
Big Girl: nooooooooooooooo Make more
me: (chuckle) I can't make more, it isn't like bread where I have the flour and can cook more.
Big Girl: We can go shoot a cow to make more steak.
me: (dying of laughter on the inside) I don't think the farmer would appreciate us shooting his cow.
So there you go. Run out of steak? Go shoot a cow.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Movenpick Swiss Ice Cream
Movenpick opened a new store near the lake and Bellevue tram stop. Yay! They have pretty much the best ice cream in Zurich, with Swiss Chocolate being my favorite flavor. Swiss Chocolate is a solid chocolate ice cream with ribbons of actual Swiss chocolate throughout. *yum* We picked up cones and headed to the lake to walk along the path and look at the water.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Spring Day Just Outside Zurich
It is a nice spring day here today so I went for a walk and took some photos of the countryside and mountains. These are fields of wheat and rapeseed crops.
Baby must. be. held. now. mommy.
gah
Before you feel too sorry for him, he was in the wrap for a few hours during the walk.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Waiting for the S-Bahn
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A Built-In Audience
That is what babies are. At least to my 5 year old big girl, S. This morning as we sat around the table, I was holding the baby and she was doing something goofy - in other words her usual - and the baby started laughing hysterically. The big girl got excited the baby was entertained with her antics and she upped her goofiness a bit more and more until she was almost manic performing for him. He found all of this to be the funniest thing he has seen in his 4 short months of life. <3
I also learned something about Swiss parenting culture today. It was warm and sunny out and the kids were outside. S and her friend wanted to go into S's room and play with her Playmobil zoo. Fine and dandy with me but S's friend had to ask her mom because they were supposed to be playing outside. Friend's dad said no, play outside. Apparently the Swiss get almost angry when the kids want to play inside on a nice day. I've been sending S out all along when it has been drizzling out being a Washingtonian and all so the weather was no matter to me.
The girls played outside all day and S collapsed shortly after dinner. We are reading Little House in the Big Woods
and it was at a particularly scary part so S took a while to fall asleep. Hopefully she will sleep in. LOL Right.
I also learned something about Swiss parenting culture today. It was warm and sunny out and the kids were outside. S and her friend wanted to go into S's room and play with her Playmobil zoo. Fine and dandy with me but S's friend had to ask her mom because they were supposed to be playing outside. Friend's dad said no, play outside. Apparently the Swiss get almost angry when the kids want to play inside on a nice day. I've been sending S out all along when it has been drizzling out being a Washingtonian and all so the weather was no matter to me.
The girls played outside all day and S collapsed shortly after dinner. We are reading Little House in the Big Woods
and it was at a particularly scary part so S took a while to fall asleep. Hopefully she will sleep in. LOL Right.
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